Malware

A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than a century in prison after he seeded teens' computers with trojans and then demanded the victims provide him with nude photographs of themselves.

New Zealand authorities are questioning an 18-year-old man who they say is the head of a gang of cybercriminals that infected 1.3 million computers worldwide and crashed servers at a U.S. university last year.

A rise in international cyberspying will pose the most significant threat to the national security of the United States in 2008, according to a report from anti-virus vendor McAfee.

The FBI announced today that it has charged eight U.S. residents with using powerful botnets to conduct internet fraud and to launch other malicious attacks.

Cyberattackers have hijacked thousands of search terms on Google, leading end-users to unexpected malware installations.

This week's news that Apple's QuickTime media player contains a new and "extremely dangerous" flaw served as a perfect lead-in to the release of the latest SANS Top 20, which lists client-side vulnerabilities among the most dangerous threats facing end-users.

Monday marks the unofficial start to the online holiday shopping season, and while experts are predicting record-breaking internet sales this year, security researchers are warning that criminals will be prowling cyberspace more than ever before.

For the second time in four months, Monster.com's website has been victimized by hackers. The latest attack, believed caused by an IFRAME injection vulnerability, forced the jobs website to take part of its web presence offline Monday.