Rob Waugh

Francois Gagnon is a Canadian business owner who was targeted because his company had lots of servers, and many customers - victims for the gang. Gagnon didn't notice for weeks, until complaints from customers alerted him. A team of ESET experts contained the infection, and Gagnon's help with forensics was also valuable.

The source of the bug, which has affected at least 500,000 sites and millions of users, was a small programming error made by a PhD student, who has spoken of his regret at the incident.

Google is to boost security on its Android devices, by continuously checking apps to see that they haven’t mutated into malicious Android malware, monitoring all apps on Android devices for suspicious behavior, according to PC World.

The Heartbleed bug – a flaw in an encryption technology used to protect major websites including Yahoo – has left a huge amount of private data at risk - and internet giants are scrambling to find fixes for a problem which could leave customer data exposed to criminals.

A new technique for spotting cyber attacks has been designed by a young American student - and could prevent attacks against planes and power plants, by looking for abnormal communications within computers, rather than sifting for malicious software.

Samsung is the most popular brand of smartphone among a large portion of the adult population - adulterers, with the Korean handsets chosen by more than half of those conducting secret affairs.

Armed with an impressive-looking shield logo, security app Virus Shield shot to the top of the sales charts on Android last week. There was one, tiny, problem: the app was a fake.

Two-thirds of the respondents to the survey admitted to using various methods to check on children “without their knowledge" - and one-fifth had found "incriminating" posts which they confronted children about.