A thirty year-old encryption algorithm has been shown to be able to withstand any attacks that can be mounted against it, even by quantum computers.

McAfee purports that its research shows that searching for photos, information or videos of the famous actress is super duper dangerous. According to the company, there's a ten percent chance of landing on a website that's tested positive for online threats, such as spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and other malware when looking for shots and whatnot of La Diaz on the Web.

Facebook users are being targeted in a scam that offers them a chance to install a "dislike" button. The scam tricks users into allowing a rogue application to access their profile page, which then posts spam messages.

Secret agents have long been at the cutting edge of technological developments. By studying how different spy agencies use technology, it's often been possible to glean an insight into the future. Pocket camera or hidden mic anyone?

A bug in Facebook's login system allows attackers to match unknown email addresses with users' first and last names, even when they've configured their accounts to make that information private.

The German government has advised ministers not to use BlackBerry and iPhone devices due to “a dramatic increase of attacks against” its networks.

BBC laptops and mobiles worth £241,019 were lost or stolen over the past two years, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The corporation's staff reported the loss of 146 laptops, 65 mobile phones and 17 Blackberry devices between April 2008 and March this year.

How does the modern criminal plan out a caper? Not on a cellphone -- if he's smart, that is.

A newly discovered vulnerability in the software that runs Apple Inc's iPad and iPhone could allow hackers to enslave the popular mobile devices, three security firms said on Tuesday.

Up to 4.6 million users of the Android smartphone operating system have downloaded a suspicious wallpaper app that collects and transmits user data to a site in China, mobile security firm Lookout has warned.

Almost three quarters of Twitter's 100 million accounts are unused or responsible for delivering malicious links.

The problem with security is that people have to understand before they can be secure. So what happens when Facebook provides better security measures, and yet people fail to use them? 100 million Facebook pages get scraped and hosted on a torrent site.

Barnaby Jack hit the jackpot at Black Hat on Wednesday. Twice. Exploiting bugs in two different ATM machines, the researcher from IOActive was able to get them to spit out money on demand and record sensitive data from the cards of people who used them.

Is Apple the most insecure software company in the world? That's the startling claim from security company Secunia, which claims that in the first half of 2010, more flaws were reported for Apple products than for any other computer software vendor.

According to security researcher Craig Heffner, about half the existing models of home routers, including most Linksys, Dell, and Verizon, are vulnerable to being hacked.

Criminals using the Apple iPhone may be unwittingly providing police with a wealth of information that could be used against them, according to new research.

The controversial torrent hub and community ThePirateBay.com has been hit by a series of attacks led by malware researcher Ch Russo. The attack has led to the exposure of the user database for the site.

Various blogs are reporting that it appears some iTunes customer accounts have been hacked and that funds from those accounts may have been used to purchase apps in the iTunes App Store.

July 4 2010, YouTube was hacked by members of internet groups 4chan and other computer whizzes. Justin Bieber, one of the biggest pop sensations at the present time, was unfortunately on the receiving end of this. Using a variety of videos the hacking was able to take place.

Data gleaned from a security firm's anti-virus software reveals that adult websites make up just one per cent of all infected pages online.