More than half of UK adults are risking their online security by using the same password for most if not all websites they visit, according to researc...

Google's privacy director will step down after three years in the job, the search giant has announced. London-based Alma Whitten took the job in 20...

Officials from the European Commission had their laptops hacked while at a conference in Azerbaijan, it has been claimed. European Commissioner Nee...

'Get Safe Online Week', is a joint initiative by the government and the Serious Organised Crime Agency, which aims to give consumers practical advice on how they can protect themselves, their homes and their businesses from an array of security issues when online.

UPDATE: A new version of Firefox has been released which fixes the problem. An upgrade of the Firefox open-source browser has been pulled after 24 ...

How easy is ID theft? So easy you should do something about it. Now. A study by Experian CreditExpert found recently that just under 20 million...

Cyber crime is one of the world's most dangerous challenges, Foreign Secretary William Hague will tell a conference in Budapest. Cyber crime is "on...

Cyber crime is one of the world's most dangerous challenges, Foreign Secretary William Hague will tell a conference in Budapest. Cyber crime is "on...

I recently had an eye opening experience. My wife confessed to me, in tears, that she liked Justin Bieber's music. She asked for forgiveness, as I walked out of the room mumbling some unrepeatable curse words.

So many systems are interconnected in the cloud making things more convenient than ever before, but we have to realise that this same interconnectedness makes security exponentially harder.

Dropbox has become the latest web service to suffer a huge security breach. Thousands of users had their usernames and passwords stolen after hacke...

Apple has quietly removed a claim from its website that its computers do not get viruses. A recent wave of virus attacks against Macs, including th...

The online 'super weapon' Flame had the ability to 'commit suicide' and shut itself down when detected, it has emerged. Flame has been called the m...

London-based social music site Last.fm has become the latest website to be hit with a password hack. The site, which helps users share music recomm...

A feared hack of the social networking site LinkedIn may be worse than previously feared, a security firm has said. On Wednesday it was revealed up...

The online 'super-weapon' known as Flame was able to control Bluetooth chips on infected computers, enabling it to track nearby devices - and potentia...

There's one thing that the US is clearly better at than the UK, and that's computer hacking. Our friends across the pond have smashed us in th...

The Queen has formally announced plans to greatly increase surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies and the police, in plans that are bei...

Two teenagers in Norway have been arrested in connection with a series of computer attacks. Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) is beli...

This summer's London Olympics "will not be immune" to cyber attacks by those seeking to disrupt the Games, a Cabinet minister warned today. Cabinet...

Google staff knew that Google Street View was collecting the personal data from wi-fi users after previously claiming it was an accident. An inves...

Iran has had to close one of its major oil facilities after it was shutdown by malware virus attacks, according to reports. The BBC reports that I...

Austrian police have arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly hacking into 259 companies in just 90 days. The Austrian minor is accused of attacki...

Apple has been slammed by online security experts for taking three months to stop the Flashback malware threat to Apple computers and develop software...