The mastermind hacker behind the TJX and Hannaford data breaches has been sentenced to 20 years in jail.

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?

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 cybecrime-friendly ISP has any long term effects?

Malicious hackers have pounced on a newly patched Adobe PDF Reader vulnerability to plant Trojan downloaders on tardy Windows users.

A zero-day (unpatched) vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

Security researchers used the lure of an innocuous weather application to commandeer about 8,000 iPhones and Android devices in a mobile botnet.

Security researchers are sounding the alarm for an unpatched, remote code execution flaw in the Opera Web browser.

The software included in the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a backdoor that allows unauthorized remote system access.

Spanish Ministry of Interior arrests 3 botnet masters operating a 12M+ infected hosts botnet that managed to steal sensitive data from 800,000 users across 190 countries, some of which include Fortune 1000 companies and 40 major banks.

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit has effectively shut down the Waledac botnet, cutting off cybercriminal access to hundreds of thousands of infected Windows computers around the world.