Scammers are trying to infect the computers of Facebook users by claiming their password has been reset and that a replacement credential is contained in an attachment.

Losses related to cybercrime more than doubled from 2008 to last year, according to a report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

The death knell for Waledac may be near after a federal judge ordered the takedown of domains being used by the prolific botnet, Microsoft announced Thursday.

Cybercriminals will no doubt, begin sending out emails over the next few days that look like Valentine's Day greeting cards, which contain a malicious link or attachment.

During the second half of 2009, attackers shifted their strategy away from mass-injection campaigns and instead focused on launching targeted attacks to infect high-profile websites, Websense found in a new report.

In 2004 at the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates proclaimed: "Two years from now, spam will be solved." Six years later there is no indication that the spam problem will ever be solved. So what went wrong?

IT departments, when facing the possibility of a disaster, may want to take a page out of the U.S. military's playbook.

User names and passwords aren't secure, and momentum continues to build across the industry to solve this problem in a manageable way.