Warning: iPhone worm starts RickRolling

It was inevitable that the iPhone would eventually fall victim to the bad guys, and that inevitability has been realised as users of Jailbroken iPhones are starting to report being infected with an iRickRolling worm.

1.7 million T-Mobile subscribers hit by outage

It has not been a good month for T-Mobile: first the Sidekick data loss escapade and now a network outage that has left more than a million and a half subscribers without voice and data services.

FIGHT: World of Warcraft vs China

It would seem that there is something of an ongoing battle in the world of online Chinese gaming, and World of Warcraft is right in the midst of it.

80 percent of viruses love Windows 7

According to one leading security research lab, Windows 7 is vulnerable to an astonishing 8 out of 10 viruses it was exposed to during testing. But wait a minute, just how astonishing is this, really?

Hold the front page: Piracy is not killing the music business!

If piracy and illegal downloaders really are killing the music industry, how come more singles have been sold this year than ever before and people who file-share spend more money on legal releases than those who do not file-share?

Trick or Treat Security Scares

You probably call it Halloween, for myself and other pagans it is Samhain, but for the cyber-gangs it is phishing time. Currently, with the 'Witch's New Year' Sabbath itself coming this weekend, there are some 500 million emails circulating worldwide and the majority of the Halloween spam is originating from the Rustock and Donbot botnets.

Firefox by the numbers: 30 million new users in just 8 weeks

Some Twitter postings just demand you read them two or three times to take in what is being said in 140 characters. One such posting was made today by Mozilla CEO John Lilly which simply said: "Firefox user growth has been amazing last 8 weeks or so. +30M or so unique monthlies"

Gizmodo gets scammed by malvertisers

Gizmodo is one of the biggest blogs on the planet, a gadget site that gets upwards of 3 million views every single day. Unfortunately, last week it appears to have been distributing malware advertising to visitors that could have put them at risk of infection.

500,000 Guardian Jobs users potentially compromised by hackers

The Guardian Jobs website, one of the top five employment sites in the UK with two million users logging in every month, was hacked over the weekend. The Guardian confirmed the breach on Saturday 24th October, stating that it had been alerted to the incident on Friday the 23rd. In a statement posted online it stated that it had been “assured by our provider that the system is now secure and we have identified and contacted everyone who may have been affected”.

Google, Bing and Twitter sitting in a tree

Forget the Windows 7 launch, the real big news from Microsoft this week is that it has reached a deal with Twitter to include real-time tweet data in Bing searches. If that wasn't excitement enough for the Twitterati, just a few hours after Microsoft made its announcement Google joined in and announced that it too had reached an agreement with Twitter to do the same.

Sun cuts global workforce by 10 percent

When Oracle agreed to acquire the company that, in better times, developed the Java programming language and shone brightly as the best of Silicon Valley businesses it looked like things could only get better for the by now struggling Sun. But now Sun Microsystems has announced that 3000 more jobs must go, and blames the bureaucrats in Brussels.

Clicking on phishing links can be good for security

When it comes to phishing sites there are two universal truths: people click on the links because they are lacking in IT security smarts, and the fake sites themselves get decommissioned very quickly indeed. So why not exploit the latter to educate the former? That’s the rather ingenious game plan being deployed by the Anti-Phishing Working Group.