A [b]UNITED AIRLINES[/b] air hostess came up with an unusual excuse to make tech writer John Battelle hang up a video chat on her flight.

Apparently the hack who works for [url=http://valleywag.gawker.com/5491279/airline-stops-video-chat-b...

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will testify in person against the college student accused of breaching her Yahoo mail account and leaking some of its contents online, according to published reports.


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Motorola will soon push Microsoft's Bing search engine onto Android phones in China, after announcing an alliance with the Redmond software giant that will see Bing appear on Androids across the globe.

In the wake of this Moto-Microso...

The takedown of 100 servers used to control Zeus-related botnets may be a short-lived victory, security researchers said after discovering that about a third of the orphaned channels were able to regain connectivity in less than 48 hours.

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Meanwhile, one in eight Twitter accounts is either malicious, suspicious, or suspended, according to a new report from Barracuda Networks.

Twitter has added a new service that detects malicious URLs in an effort to quell the rise in spam a...

A public exploit for the new security hole in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 has now become available – as a [url=http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/windows/browser/ie_iepeers_pointer]module[/url] for the [url=http://www.metasploit.com/]Metasploi...

Is that a bot in your pocket? Or does it just look like one?

by Danny Tijerina

Last week at the RSA Conference, my colleague Derek Brown and I, presented findings from a research project titled MOBOTS: Pocketful of Pwnage, which...

Command and Control servers associated with the infamous Koobface worms have gone through a complete refresh over the last fortnight. Russian net security firm Kaspersky Lab reckons the change up might be aimed at making takedown efforts by cybercrim...

Rod Beckstrom, head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body which administers the internet, has warned of attacks on the domain name system (DNS), attracting criticism from domain owners in the process. Beckstrom ...

Symantec has announced that it plans to shut down part of its SecurityFocus security information portal. The company says that only the Mailing Lists, including Bugtraq, and its Vulnerability Database will remain online. Starting on the 15th of March...