Edwin Vargas, a detective with the New York City Police Department, has been arrested on Tuesday for computer hacking crimes. According to the complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court, between March 2011 and October 2012, Vargas, an NYPD detective assigned to a precinct in the Bronx, hired an e-mail hacking service to

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by Alastair Stevenson Cybercrooks running the Apache Darkleech JavaScript attacks have become more tenacious, infecting hundreds more websites, according to security firm Zscaler. The security firm reported a marked increase in the number of websites falling victim to the Darkleech attack on Wednesday, warning that many of them are hosted in the

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By Jacob Gershman A new video sharing app is emerging as the latest source of anxiety for employers worried about social-media risks at the office. Workplace videos are sprouting on Vine, the new six-second video app developed by Twitter. And a lot of them aren’t pretty, says Daniel A. Schwartz, an employment

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A Romanian hacker that has been jailed for his involvement with a criminal gang that planted ATM skimmers and stole card information has designed a new device aimed at preventing the very same type of theft. The 33-year-old Valentin Boanta, who's doing a five-year stretch in a Romanian prison for supplying the

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Several U.S. power utilities say they face constant cyber attacks on critical systems, according to a report by two Democratic lawmakers amid warnings from the Obama administration that foreign hackers are seeking to attack the electric grid. Congressmen Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Henry Waxman of California disclosed their findings on Tuesday

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Malware targeting point-of-sale (POS) systems has been a major trend of the last six months or so, with a flock of interrelated malware families being sold, shared, exchanged, tweaked and improved by the various denizens of the cyber underworld. With easy pickings to be had from under-protected small operations, this pattern is

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By Charlie Osborne Government officials say that Chinese hackers who breached Google's defenses were able to access years' worth of U.S. law enforcement and spying information. As reported by The Washington Post, current and former U.S. officials say that when Chinese hackers broke into Google servers in 2010, although the tech giant

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Today, as part of its ongoing education and prevention mission, the IC3 released its latest annual snapshot of online crime and fraud—the 2012 Internet Crime Report. While there is no end to the variety of cyber scams, the report highlights some of the most frequent ones from 2012. http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/may/internet-crime-in-2012/internet-crime-in-2012

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By Lucian Parfeni Yahoo Japan, which has little to do with the Yahoo that's buying Tumblr, has revealed that it believes some 22 million IDs may have been leaked in an attack that the company discovered and stopped as it happened. Yahoo Japan believes the attackers were attempting to get their hands

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By Matt Markovich There's a war being fought every second, right under our noses and it effects everyone. It doesn't involve any bombs or bloodshed -- the targets are services we rely on daily that could virtually disappear with just a few key strokes. Security experts say it's not a matter of

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