Cybercrime

Police reform proposals including providing volunteers with powers similar to those of police staff.

It may be matter of time until terrorists use our complex finance systems against us.

The hackers accessed Clapper's Verizon account and forwarded incoming calls to the Free Palestine Movement.

Call centres employ multilingual staff to phone banks in their local language to try and extract money.

Blackmail attempt is the latest in series of bitcoin ransom campaigns.

American insurer will provide cover of up to £50,000 against cyberbullying.

Guidelines to ensure safe online shopping as hackers target bargain hunters.

TalkTalk assured customers that many sensitive details obtained by hackers were incomplete.

Broadband and phone provider faces huge compensation bill following large-scale data breach.

Cyberattack could have led to theft of private data from over 4m of its customers.

Spanish police have detained 81 people in a country-wide child porn crackdown.

YouTubers including W2S and NepentheZ have Origin accounts compromised by criminals.

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for a state visit and talks with President Barack Obama.

Experts warn Facebook users against clicking on fake links offering new dislike button.

A Latvian hacker has pleaded guilty to writing the Gozi virus

Interpol's new bitcoin-like virtual currency used in simulated marketplace similar to Silk Road.

Victims were told to pay monthly fees to protect or update Wikipedia pages on their businesses.

Hackers say service that netted ALM $1.7m in 2014 did not protect deleted profiles from data leak.

Ukrainian men charged with hacking two newswires to steal non-public data and generate $100m in profit.

Hackers taking advantage of Windows 10 upgrade to spread ransomware to unsuspecting victims.

Fears of another bitcoin pyramid scheme emerge as 80,000 accounts from mining firm Cloudminr exposed.

Antivirus pioneer John McAfee questions the motives and reasons for Edward Snowden leaving Hong Kong for Russia

UAE's Federal Supreme Court applied new federal law which sees fines and incarceration for online offences.

A 28-year-old man from New York was robbed by two men at gunpoint for the bitcoin on his smartphone.

Russia's cyber-capabilites are the focus of much attention but it is playing the long game says one expert

Voice calling feature on WhatsApp is yet to launch officially. So if you get a text invite as of now, ignore it.

Mossad's cybercrime unit discovered the use of steganography says author Gordon Thomas in his book.

Lenovo's range of consumer laptops come pre-installed with a piece of adware that also allows it to monitor secure communications like banking and email

The security arm of Alcatel-Lucent says Android devices are now favoured targets of cybercrime.

Banks in 30 countries including Russia, US, Germany, China and Canada hit by cyber attack.