First spotted nearly a week ago, notifications of copyright violation supposedly sent by the Recording Industry Association of America are still hitting inboxes around the world.

The sender's email address is spoofed to make the message seem legitimate, and the email contains a warning and an attachment that the user is asked to open in order to see details of the violation.

President Obama last week signed the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act of 2012. Tucked inside the legislation is a provision that could have far-reaching implications in the coming decade: widespread civilian use of unmanned aerial drones.

OS X Mountain Lion has extended the functionality of its predecessor viz. Mac OS X Lion by adding over 100 new features to it. Gatekeeper is one of those news features and it provides a whole new security mechanism for Mac users.

Anonymous hackers have issued a statement claiming to have found child pornography on the Los Angeles Police Canine Association website.

Anonymous hackers "CabinCr3w" targeted the Los Angeles Police Canine Association's website and posted a statement and the stolen data on Pastebin. In it the Anon - the name Anonymous members use to define themselves - claimed to have discovered pornographic images of children on one officer's email account.

Code has been published that attackers could use to crash fully patched versions of pcAnywhere on any Windows PC, without first having to authenticate to the PC.

A U.S. grand jury added more charges against file-sharing website Megaupload and its executives, and also accused them of taking copyrighted content from sites such as YouTube for its own service, according to a new indictment released last week.

The founder, Kim Dotcom, and six others employed by the site were charged with eight additional counts of copyright infringement and wire fraud. They were originally charged with five counts of conspiracy and copyright infringement.

Earlier today, we gave readers a heads up that Anonymous could soon have the ability to wipe out our power grid, further screwing Americans. But after the National Security Agency released the news of this domestic threat, Anonymous sent out a tweet today calling the NSA's claims "baseless fear-mongering."

The cybercrime underground is expanding each day, yet the longer I study it the more convinced I am that much of it is run by a fairly small and loose-knit group of hackers. That suspicion was reinforced this week when I discovered that the author of the infamous ZeuS Trojan was a core member of Spamdot, until recently the most exclusive online forum for spammers and the shady businessmen who support the big spam botnets.

The clock is running out on IPv4 on the Internet, but even so the next generation of Internet traffic protocols, IPv6, is being adopted very slowly. But, it seems IPv6 is finally making it to broad acceptance. Arbor Networks reports that the “latest milestone in IPv6 development: the first observations of IPv6 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

From today, victims of street crime in London will be able to report attacks online, as part of a scheme to get more people involved in keeping communities safe.

The StreetViolence website also allows those who have suffered robbery and other crimes to post witness appeals and warn the local community by pinpointing the crime on a Google map.