Bare-bones software offers pretty good protection from threats, but beware of the trade-offs.

In an article on Network World, Toronto-based IT security consultant MohamedHassan claims to have purchased two different Samsung laptops, both of which came with a known keylogger installed.

In Kingpin, Wired senior editor Kevin Poulsen follows the true story of Max Butler (Max Vision), a talented hacker who turned to the dark side of the law by becoming a major figure in the cybercrime i...

Lookout Mobile Security is reporting that some Android phones in China have been hit by a trojan called "Geinmi" that transmits personal information such as phone numbers and send it back to servers. ...

Expect your iPhone and iPad to be targeted by malicious hackers! At least that's what McAfee says. The company has just made this jaw-dropping assertion in a release via its Web site. McAfee specific...

Over the weekend, commenting accounts and the content management systems for Gawker Media were hacked by a group calling itself Gnosis. Gawker Media, which consists of Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jez...

If you've downloaded the latest, mandatory 2011 AVG Anti-Virus Free software update, all is not necessarily lost. According to a report by PCWorld, the December 1 update caused 64-bit Windows 7 PCs to breakdown completely.

Privacy is dead. Between Facebook's security flaws and more companies practicing data scrapping, there can be no doubt. But just in case you weren't convinced, the Firesheep add-on for Firefox makes i...

There's no such thing as a free lunch and this week AVG proved that by sneaking a new and disruptive form of self-promotion into the latest version of its popular free antivirus suite. By default, whe...