Typosquatting is the practice of registering a domain name that's slightly different from that of a heavily trafficked site in the hope of catching some accidental traffic. Research by a security company suggests there's a lot of it about, especially around major brands.

A recent 'purchasing raid' on Sydney's RailCorp lost property auction yielded 50 memory sticks, 66% of which contained malware.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish. These three words became synonymous with Microsoft after the anti-trust trial of the 1990s found that the company used this phrase internally to describe its strategy to get the better of competitors.

The latest Sophos spam report shows that since Q3 last year, Asia as a spam originator has increased from 35% to 50%.

Trojanised versions of legitimate Mac software steal processing power as well as information.

For around 20 minutes on Sunday, the Sesame Street YouTube channel was showing a little more than usual.

During the past 24 hours, as many as four German state governments have admitted to using spyware against their citizens.

Claiming the usual "it arrived in an anonymous brown paper bag," the Chaos Computer Club has announced the reverse engineering of what is claimed to be the German authorities' intercept malware, Quellen-TKÜ.

The scum of the Internet have very little respect for anything –natural disasters, significant milestones even the passing of important people are all grist to the mill of the spammers and malware merchants; so it is with the death of Steve Jobs.

Security companies are warning of the arrival of a new Mac Trojan - dubbed Revir - that poses as a PDF file.