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Missed a phone call? The Better Business Bureau says answering international telephone fraud calls looking like US calls might cost you more than you think.

Managers at White Lodging, a hotel management firm that works with various brands including Hilton, Marriott, Westin, Sheraton and Hyatt, may have known of a major credit card data breach for two weeks before details were made public.

A tiny, cheap gadget which can ‘hack’ into the network of modern cars to receive radio commands ranging from controlling steering and brakes to switching off headlights is to be shown off at the Black Hat Asia security conference in Singapore next month.

419s are a well-known scam type, but some scams are more obvious than others. And sometimes it's the seller who's cheated not the buyer.

A statistical tool first used in 1966 and currently used in speech and gesture recognition may hold a key to sniffing out botnets - by predicting the likely “next move” of infected PCs and the healthy computers around them, researchers have claimed.

Weak passwords and rarely updated software are a recurring theme behind the 48,000 cyber incidents reported to the Department of Homeland Security - including the theft of data on the nation’s weakest dams by a “malicious intruder”, a DHS report has found.

It is now possible to enable HTTPS secure browsing on every website using Firefox for Android, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced.

Eleven high school students have been expelled after being caught bugging their teachers’ computers with a key logger device to change their grades.

White Lodging, a hotel management firm that works under brands including Hilton and Marriott, has suffered a credit card hack revealing customers' details.