Melissa Loveday

Gary McKinnon appeared in Bow Street Magistrate's Court today to hear District Judge Evans's decision allowing his extradition to the U.S. where he will face trial for hacking into and causing damage to U.S. military computer systems.

Gary McKinnon, the U.S. government's most wanted IT geek, spoke out at Infosecurity Europe yesterday against his possible extradition to the states where he will face charges of hacking into the U.S. military's computer systems.

Charities and other non-profit organizations are to get protection from hackers and cybercriminals as a security company began offering free digital certificates and vulnerability scanning to websites that raise money for good causes.

A new website listing the UK's most wanted criminals collapsed shortly after its launch yesterday as users rushed to see its contents.

A British security professional has been convicted of gaining unauthorized access to the website set up last December to handle charitable donations for the Asian tsunami.

Security researchers hit out at database vendor Oracle by releasing details of workarounds for six security vulnerabilities that remain unpatched.

A new worm disguised as an iTunes file is slowly infecting AOL Instant Messenger users.

Security buffs have urged employees to write down their passwords in hopes that people will not use the same weak phrase repeatedly, thereby increasing security.

A recently discovered defect in Windows has made the software susceptible to a remotely accessed denial of service attack.

Google refuted rumors it was hacked on Sunday, following a 15 minute downtime.