College campuses around the country are welcoming back students over the next few weeks. Those students' parents, as they unload armfuls of gadgets and miles of power cords, will remember when the onl...

Apple laptop batteries can be hacked to infect the laptop with malware, or possibly even rigged to explode, a well-known security researcher has found. .

Google yesterday began warning Internet users that their PCs may be infected by a certain kind of malicious software. "Your computer appears to be infected," warns the big yellow banner across the...

A new strain of super malware infected more than 4.5 million PCs in the first three months of 2011, and shows no signs of slowing down. The malware, a rootkit variously called TDSS, TDL or Alureon...

Sony, the data-security firm RSA, Lockheed Martin, the email wholesaler Epsilon, the Fox broadcast network, NASA, PBS, the European Space Agency, the FBI, the British and French treasuries -- and, ...

Apple's battle against the fast-spreading "MacDefender" Trojan just took a very interesting turn. According to a May 16 internal memo obtained by ZDNet security researcher Ed Bott, Apple is instruc...

President Obama sent a major piece of cybersecurity legislation to Congress this morning (May 12), asking lawmakers to beef up and streamline existing regulations. .

Online criminals love a good party. From Valentine's Day and Easter to Hanukkah and Christmas, anytime you and your loved ones are getting together, you can be sure these digital devils are celebrating too..

The online password management company LastPass is urging its members to change their master passwords as a precaution against what may turn out to be a serious data breach. .