Rob Waugh

After a technical error on a Mozilla database, thousands of email addresses and encrypted passwords were exposed for nearly a month - leaving 78,000 Mozilla app developers vulnerable to hackers.

This week in security news saw the world’s researchers discover a whole new range of Achilles Heels for PCs, the online privacy service Tor, and even ‘connected’ gadgets such as internet fridges.

Users of the online privacy service Tor - designed to allow users to access hidden sites anonymously - may have been unmasked after an attack lasting five months, crafted to de-anonymise traffic on the service.

The billions of USB ports in use in PCs are vulnerable to a new attack - which can undetectably install malware, steal data and seize control of machines.

Set up in the wake of Facebook's controversial 'experiment', the 99 Days project aims to work out a more profound question: does the site make us happy?

A new report found hundreds of serious security flaws in some of the most popular Internet of Things gadgets - the problem is far deeper than thought, with 70% of the most popular such gadgets having serious security flaws.

A new Android flaw potentially affecting up to 80% of users could leave handsets vulnerable to rogue apps - leapfrogging the defenses used to ensure malicious developers are kept out.

For computer hackers, making the classic first-person shooter Doom play on odd devices is a quest that never ends - but an Australian team may have won the game for good, by running Doom on an ATM.

A single email wiped $300 million off the value of an Australian mining company, after an environmental activist, Jonathan Moylan and sent a press release to media organizations.