A security researcher on Thursday unveiled a new iPhone SMS vulnerability, according to reports out of the SyScan Conference in Singapore.

Black Hat is still a month away, but it is already making news after a planned presentation, which would have shown how to force ATMs to give cash, was pulled.

An appeals court has upheld a ruling that Kaspersky Lab did nothing wrong when it blocked users' access to Zango programs.

Reports of the death of Britney Spears have been greatly exaggerated -- and caused by hackers.

Bucking economic trends, the global security software market saw a 19 percent growth in revenue last year -- totaling $13.5 billion, according to a Gartner report released this week. One of the major reasons for the rise was an increased interest in appliance products for email and web security and security and event management. Key drivers for purchases were data protection against targeted attacks, privacy and compliance. Symantec remains the top revenue producing company, but smaller vendors gradually are gaining market share. — DK

The settlement is just one in a long line of payoffs that followed one of the largest reported data-loss incidents on record.

Google has plugged a hole in is Chrome browser to fix an issue that could have enabled an attacker to cause a browser crash and execute arbitrary code, according to a company blog post. Version 2.0.172.33, released Monday, is patched for the buffer overflow vulnerability, rated "critical" by Google and discovered internally. Chrome automatically updates itself and requires no user action. It has about a six percent share in the browser market. — DK

Another day, another social-networking threat -- this one involving the potential of information disclosure on Facebook.

Researchers have spotted a new variant of the RSPlug Mac trojan in the wild.

One respected security researcher wants to legalize the hacking of federal government and military websites -- and he wants everyone to hear him out.