Departing president now accepts that Cartwright’s involvement was more minor than at first thought

Keylogger developed while accused was in high school went on to infect some 16,000 computers, say prosecutors

College believed to have taken out cyber-insurance that will cover at least some of the payout

Regulator launches crackdown on insecure devices that allow snoopers to spy on you and your family

Researchers have neutralized the threat of the latest strain of CryptXXX v.3 ransomware, releasing a decryption tool for unlocking files.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including Yahoo’s latest breach announcement, a DDoS-for-hire crackdown, hackers seeking help with Mirai, and some new Adobe patches.

An exploit kit called DNSChanger is attacking routers, not browsers, through a malvertising campaign.

Activity on a number of Dark Web hacker forums indicates that while people are downloading the Mirai malware source code, they need help setting it up.

Millions lost in further attacks on Swift banking system

Hackers are mining Zcash cryptocurrency surreptitiously on PCs infected with cleverly named programs such as system.exe, taskmngr.exe and svchost.exe.