Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell has called for a new law allowing state residents to remove their personal information from internet phone directories and other sites that maintain and distribute records at no cost or for a fee.
Cyberattackers are exploiting the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to spread malware, according to researchers at numerous anti-virus vendors.
Google text advertisements are being hijacked by a trojan that redirects users to pitches from another provider, according to researchers at BitDefender.
Numerous vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe's popular Flash Player that allow attackers to gain control over a user's PC and use it as a launching pad to obtain sensitive data, inject arbitrary code, launch cross-site scripting attacks and mount privilege escalation attacks on servers hosting cross-domain policy files.
A hard drive containing the personal information of three million driver's license applicants in Britain has gone missing from a facility in Iowa, British officials said Monday.
Victims of phishing scams in the United States lost $3.2 billion during a 12-month period ending in August, and the number of people on the receiving end of phishing emails has more than doubled over the past three years, according to a report from Gartner.
An intricate network of servers operated by Chinese criminals has moved into the void created when the notorious Russian Business Network (RBN) shut down, according to a report from anti-crimeware vendor Finjan.
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