Stories by: John E. Dunn

A researcher has claimed that increased support for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in browsers could lead to a marked increase in botnet worm attacks.

The teenager arrested on suspicion of writing and distributing the Zotob Windows 2000 worm may have authored more than 20 other viruses, it has emerged.

Security vendor, Fortinet, has been ordered to suspend sales in America after the US International Trade Commission made a final ruling against it in its year-old patent infringement dispute with Trend Micro.

Businesses are keener than ever to roll out data encryption, but are still struggling with the complexity of key management, a new survey has concluded.

The man who almost single-handedly invented desktop encryption, Phil Zimmermann, is to demonstrate a new telephony-oriented encryption program at this week's Black Hat security event in Las Vegas.

Spanish authorities are reported to have arrested 310 people as part of an international investigation into one of the Internet's most active "419" or "Nigerian e-mail" fraud rings.

AOL is the global network most infected with "zombie" PCs, according to a new study.

A number of the most promoted security risks are nothing more than a load of hype, Gartner has said in an unexpected outbreak of sober assessment.

Four of the UK's largest banks have started delaying the time it takes to make an online bank transfer in an attempt to clamp down on phishing fraud.

Symantec has issued patches to fix a "high impact" security hole that affects almost every product it currently sells.

Cryptography expert Phil Zimmermann has said he believes the flaw discovered in Microsoft's Word and Excel encryption is serious and warrants immediate attention.