What's more devastating than a DDoS attack launched by a botnet? In some cases, that's the DDoS attack launched by the "opt-in botnet" aggregated through a crowdsourcing campaign.

New report indicates that the combination of the ZeuS crimeware kit, and the tremendous increase of malicious PDFs seen in 2009, play a crucial role in the growth model of the cybercrime ecosystem.

A MarkMonitor review indicates that less than 10% of the top 300 high trafficked sites have adopted VeriSign's Registry Lock Service.

According to Intego's security memo, OSX/HellRTS.D is being distributed on a number of forums shows that it will be accessible to a large number of malicious users who may attempt to use it to attack Macs.

A newly released survey, ‘Teenage Hacking Habits’, reveals that based on a sample of 1000 teenagers, 16% admitted to hacking, 34% had already started by age 13, 84% by age 16, and 51% hack from home. Are "hacker moms" to blame?

A Bank of America (BofA) computer specialist will plead guilty to charges that he hacked the bank's automated tellers to dispense cash without recording the activity.

A newly released report “Shadows in the Cloud”, details the the inner workings of complex cyber espionage network, that was systematically stealing sensitive documents/correspondence from the Indian government, the United Nations, as well as Dalai Lama's offices.

In a startling revelation, the open-source Mozilla project says that its flagship Firefox browser contains a root certificate authority that doesn't seem to have a known owner.

The Firefox 3.6.3 update is rated critical. It fixes a flaw that was exploited at this year's CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker challenge.

In need of a good reason not to click on links found in spam or phishing emails? A currently ongoing Facebook phishing campaign is not only attempting to phish fresh Facebook accounting data, but is also serving client-side exploits.