Cybercrime

President Obama’s Twitter and Facebook accounts were briefly compromised this week - with two Tweets and one post altered to send links to video montages of terrorist attacks.

A new app, Truly.am, aims to put a stop to a fast-growing area of online fraud - online dating scams - by forcing cybercriminals to prove they are who they say they are.

An invasion of fruity posts offering miraculous weight loss flooded Facebook and Twitter accounts linked to the social sharing app Buffer - appearing on official accounts for companies such as Brussels Airlines and Startup Genome.

Attackers used a Trojan program to target a security camera system in the Carmel Tunnels toll road in Haifa, shutting down the road for hours, and causing “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in damage.

When Google’s Safe Browsing service said that programming site PHP.net was hosting and serving malware, it sparked furious discussion - but the site investigated, and has since admitted a Javascript attack, and moved to "clean" servers.

Indonesia as a major source of malicious traffic? That's what a recent infographic from content delivery network provider Akamai seemed to say. In her first article for We Live Security, ESET security researcher Lysa Myers investigates.

A huge amount of private information harvested via hotel Wi-Fi networks is on sale in China - including phone numbers, dates of birth and addresses from hotel guests who logged in to networks in their rooms.

Cyber attacks have doubled in the year 2012-2013, according to a fraud report released by investigators Kroll - and the target is often information, rather than cash.

The global press release distribution firm PR Newswire has admitted to a large-scale breach, in which usernames and passwords were stolen - but claims hackers have not sent out “fake” releases, which can be used to manipulate financial markets.