Rob Waugh

Only weeks after the closure of Silk Road, a “drug market” which authorities claim shipped $1.2 billion of drugs including heroin around the world, a site styling itself Silk Road 2.0 has appeared. Like the original, it is only accessible via the “anonymous” browser Tor.

The FBI added five new cybercriminals to its Most Wanted list - including a new entry at number one, Alexsey Belan. The FBI aimed a specific warning at criminals who thought they could "hide overseas".

A new app lets you unlock Mac computers without entering a password - users simply tap on a paired iPhone with the Knock app when near the Mac, and it opens up.

Adobe’s security breach laid bare 38 million passwords to the world - and a security researcher claims that 1.9 million of these are the simple “123456”. Half a million craftier customers chose “123456789”

Tom Hanks and Donald Trump are among a client list of 850,000 users of limousines and town cars to become the latest “trophy” claimed by hackers, after a breach at a nationwide limousine firm - which netted addresses and credit card details.

Google may soon offer Chrome users a little extra protection for their passwords - which could previously be accessed in “one click” on unattended machines. The search giant is testing a new security feature, according to reports.

A three-year-battle with a mysterious new strain of malware has led researcher Dragos Ruiu to conclude that the BadBIOS malware infesting his lab "jumps" from PC to PC using sound - and can be transmitted without any internet connection.

Users of Google's Chrome browser will be able to "purge" rogue plug-ins, after attacks where a supposedly helpful browser add-on contains malware - a tactic adopted by cybercriminals, as reported by We Live Security earlier this year.