Rob Waugh

Instagram users were bombarded with pictures of fruit over the weekend in a spam attack that swept the photo-sharing network.

A telemarketing company has been hit with a $7.5m fine for repeatedly contacting people on the Do Not Call Registry - the largest civil penalty ever issued in a Do Not Call case.

Hit movies such as Man of Steel and World War Z have been used as bait to lure victims to spam pages on sharing site Slideshare, according to a report in The Register this week.

The source code for banking malware Carberp has been released online - raising the possibility a new wave of attacks using variants of the sophisticated Trojan.

Google’s Safe Browsing program is now flagging 10,000 suspect websites per day, the search giant announced in a blog post

More people will be enjoying more digital devices on holiday trips this year than ever before, so we’ve rounded up the top tips for protecting your technology on the road, so you can enjoy a safer, less stressful vacation.

Blizzard, makers of the hit online game World of Warcraft, issued a security alert today after a spate of unauthorized logins and player reports of "money laundering" scams.

A hacker has used Facebook’s Graph Search to find and list telephone numbers for thousands of Facebook users without their knowledge.

Cybercriminals cashed in on an internet rumor to fool 100,000 Android users into downloading a fake BlackBerry Messenger app for Android.