Privacy advocate Moxie Marlinspike used the spotlight of the SOURCE conference here to call attention to Google's data harvesting practices, warning that the search engine giant can mine information to figure out even what Web surfers are thinking about.

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.

The New York Times is reporting that Google's password system was compromised during a targeted attack last December.

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?

The attacks occurred mostly on WordPress blogs hosted by Network Solutions but it appears that there are multiple security weaknesses in play.

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.

Researchers from Symantec are reporting on an ongoing targeted malware campaign using a FIFA World Cup 2010 theme, in an attempt to trick end users into executing a malicious PDF file, exploiting a recently patched flaw in Adobe Reader.

Jumping through a series of anti-exploit roadblocks, Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil hacked into a fully patched 64-bit Windows 7 machine using a pair of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities.

Google has added a nifty new security feature to warn GMail users when there are suspicious log-ins to their e-mail accounts.

What's the current state of the crimeware threat? Just how vibrant is the underground marketplace when it comes to crimeware? What are ISPs doing, and should ISPs be doing to solve the problem? Does taking down a cybercrime-friendly ISP has any long term effect?