Classified documents were stolen from high levels of the Indian government by hackers over the course of several months, according to a report released on Monday night by researchers from the University of Toronto. The researchers, from the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, traced the botnet (a network of compromised computers) used in the attacks to hackers based in China, ...

As users have flocked to social networks, so, inevitably, have spammers. And according to a recent experiment, users are much more receptive to spam sent via a social network than over e-mail. Fake friends: This screenshot shows real users who befriended a bogus Facebook user created by George Petre and colleagues. Credit: BitDefender   Fake friends: This screenshot shows real users who befriended ...

E-mail attachments are no longer the attack of choice of computer hackers and other individuals intent on gaining access to government and industry systems, security experts said today. As increasing numbers of people adopt social media, those sites are becoming the new attack portal of choice and malware is now the No. 1 threat, panelists said at the FOSE 2010 trade show in Washington, D.C. Two ...