Four out of every ten programs used in the world are pirated or unlicensed, a loss of revenue to the software industry of $63.4 billion (£39.5 billion) a year, the Business Software Alliance's (BSA) latest annual survey has claimed.
In a clear warning to mobile users in developed markets, Russian cybercriminals have started distributing a wave of premium rate malware from rogue marketplaces, including one example disguised as an Android Flash Player.
The Government has offered an outline of the "strict safeguards" it intends to add to the controversial Draft Communications Data Bill announced as part of today's Queen's Speech.
Further evidence has emerged that the Syrian Government is targeting opposition activists using a well-known remote access Trojan distributed through bogus Skype calls.
The website of the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has been downed by what is starting to look like the most serious cyberattack ever to hit the site.
Adding injury to insult, fraudsters have merged the phenomenon of ransom Trojans with banking malware, producing a hybrid that demands money before attempting to steal user logins.
The apparent cyberattack that disrupted IT systems at Iran's main oil terminal was serious enough to have wiped data from hard drives, news agencies in the country have claimed.
Public sector organisations are more likely to be fined for data breaches than private sector peers, a Freedom of Information (FoI) analysis by communications company ViaSat UK has revealed.
The competence of the London Marathon organisers has been questioned after an embarrassing security bungle left the personal details of all 38,000 runners in last Sunday's race exposed to public view on the organisation's website.
The Information Commissioner has fined 14 organisations £1.17 million for breaches of the Data Protection Act (DPA) since its inception despite receiving more than 26,000 complaints over the same period, business services company Axway has revealed.
Education and certification organisation (ISC)2 has formed an advisory board it hopes will be able to offer professional help in plugging some of the yawning gaps in public cybersecurity policy.
The Information Commissioner has blamed a lack of staff training for a London hospital's loss of two unencrypted USB sticks containing patient data.
The two-year deadline for users of Windows XP and Office 2003 to abandon their software or face a life without official support started ticking on Sunday, Microsoft has reminded millions of customers.
The Student Loans England quango has apologised after accidentally revealing 8,000 email addresses in a mass-mailing to students reminding them to complete grant applications.
The second annual UK Cyber Security Challenge has been won by Cambridge University student Jonathan Millican, 19, who emerged as the best all-rounder from the prestigious GCHQ-backed competition.