Symantec, along with other companies, is reporting it has seen Android malware that automatically changes each time it is downloaded — much like server-side polymorphic viruses aimed at desktops

(ZDNet UK - Security)

The FBI has confimed that hackers intercepted a conference call to discuss the Anonymous hacking group with Scotland Yard and other cybercrime officers, after obtaining an email setting up the call

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

A botnet apparently killed by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab has been resurrected and resumed its spamming activities

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

London's police service is apologising to more than a thousand crime victims, who were shown each others' email addresses in an CC/BCC field mix-up

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

Google has introduced an automated scanning process designed to keep malicious apps out of the Android Market

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

Official efforts to fight online crime are pitched at too high a level— at gangs and terrorists — to help people with the everyday e-crimes that affect them, a Commons committee has said, urging more investment in education

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

The Supreme Court heard arguments from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's defence team against his extradition to Sweden to face sexual molestation allegations

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

The latest security patch to Symantec's remote control software apparently renders it safe to use

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

The UK and the US are better prepared to fend off cyberattacks than China and Russia, according to a report commissioned by security company McAfee

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)

The Cridex data-stealing Trojan is using spammer techniques to break captcha challenges to open webmail accounts and propagate itself, according to security company Websense

(ZDNet UK - Security Threats)