Social networking groups should do more to prevent underage users from accessing them, warns an IT security company.

Organisations that hold personal data should be made liable for fraudulent transactions, say BT security experts.

More than 75 percent of bank websites have at least one design flaw that could lead to the theft of customer information, according to a recent University of Michigan study.

A new trojan in the wild is infecting multimedia files on a victim's hard disk.

A massive domain name server (DNS) design vulnerability that could permit cache poisoning - effectively allowing an attacker to direct users to the website of his choosing - is set to be fixed by an unprecedented synchronized series of multivendor patches.

Microsoft said on Monday that attackers are exploiting a zero-day ActiveX vulnerability in the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access.

Mozilla is trying to refute the notion that the buggier the software, the less secure it is.

The abundance of voice over IP equipment has led researchers to develop a range of techniques which, instead of hiding information in standard data traffic, will allow individuals to instead hide information in VoIP streams

The threat which could have led to the country's BlackBerry services being suspended appears to have lifted after the Government backed down on its own demands for access to users' data

The catastrophic loss of information of 25 million UK citizens last year would have been avoided if Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs had spent a maximum of £15,000 on the extraction of data, but it turned down this expenditure because information security was such a low priority, one of the breach investigators revealed today