The source of infection behind an increasingly precarious mobile malware is causing researchers to scratch their heads.

A Shadow Kill Hackers attack that compromised the city’s network and shut down key services was the second ransom-related attack on the city in months.

Calling Apple iPhone 5, iPhone 4s or early iPad owners - your device may be about to turn into a vintage technology paperweight.

Spear-phishing is among the most popular cyber-attacks used by criminals today. Find out more about this social engineering attack and how to defend against it

Sextortion scammers have started hijacking poorly managed or defunct blogs to expand an increasingly profitable business.

Facebook is using trademark law to target the operators of sites that imitate or target Facebook and Instagram sites.

The anonymized real-time location data the city's after can easily be associated with riders, thereby jeopardizing their privacy, Uber says.

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world's largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people.

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world's largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and which bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people.

The proposal would require biometrics systems to verify age before allowing visits to adult sites.