If the law can ever find him, the spam king owes $223 million to the popular social networking site MySpace.

Users of Yahoo's search engine can now traverse the internet with some body armor thanks to a partnership with McAfee that was announced Tuesday.

Security researchers recently found a server being used to harvest private information consisting of stolen data from 40 international businesses, as well as health-related information on patients worldwide.

The Storm Worm botnet is just a fraction of its original size, but malware remains on the rise, according to one email security firm.

Online retail success invariably begets fraud, and in the case of many online merchants this fraud takes the form of chargebacks.

For the second time this year, a security researcher has found websites certified as McAfee HackerSafe that contain vulnerabilities.

IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue -- not offer complete security -- and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivized to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas.

As might be expected, email users are beginning to see the first stages of what is expected to be a major phishing attack capitalizing on the populace's eager expectation of IRS refund checks, as well as the Bush administration's economic stimulus payment distribution, scheduled to begin May 2.

The questions of "who" and "why" in identity theft remain largely ignored. That is, "Who is after online identities? And what for?"

Members of the so-called Rock Phish gang of Russian cybercriminals have launched a new style of attack in which they seek sensitive data not only through phishing but also by installing malware.