Rob Waugh

Borrowing an iPhone charger - or using one in a public place - might be more risky than you think. Researchers from Georgia Tech showed off an attack this week which used a modified iPhone charger to infect an iPhone 5 with spyware in under a minute.

One in six adults use the name of a pet as the basis of their password, and two-thirds use their partner's name, according to a new survey commissioned by Google.

A new ransomware infection scares its victims by invoking the name of the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Cyber Security Division - and frightens users further by posting a webcam picture.

Members of a Russian cybercrime forum attempted to frame respected security blogger Brian Krebs by mailing 13 bags of heroin to his home and alerting police.

A hi-tech spoofing attack took “remote control” of a 213-foot yacht - steering it off course, without anyone touching the steering wheel.

NASA is no stranger to peering into nebulae in space - but the space agency found itself perplexed by the more Earthbound puzzle of cloud computing security, according to a report by the Office of the Inspector General.

A Twitter account used by international news agency Thomson Reuters was compromised this week, by hackers affiliated to the Syrian Electronic Army.

Earlier estimates of “trillion-dollar” damage to the world economy may have overstated the financial impact of cybercrime, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Many people leave phones and tablets “open” to criminals - both the cyber variety, and the ordinary, non-cyber kind. Our tips should help your handset safe.