Malware

Online retail success invariably begets fraud, and in the case of many online merchants this fraud takes the form of chargebacks.

Researchers at an Eastern European security company have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of "Byzantine complexity" that attempts to use military and university email servers to send junk email

For the second time this year, a security researcher has found websites certified as McAfee HackerSafe that contain vulnerabilities.

IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue -- not offer complete security -- and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivized to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas.

The insidious Kraken botnet has been infiltrated and a way found to shut it down remotely.

Microsoft has gone on the defensive in the massive SQL injection attack that has hit websites running the company's Internet Information Services web server and SQL Server products.

Spammers have developed automated techniques to create fake pages on Google's Blogger service that are used to hawk typical junk mail merchandise.