Pwn2Own - long a staple of the CanSecWest security conference - is putting more than half of its prize fund towards exploits in popular smartphone platforms.

California-based security consultant Christopher Tarnovsky wowed audiences at the Black Hat 2010 conference with a presentation on how he broke the Trusted Platform Module.

Daily Internet Services - a UK-based webhost - was the victim of a defacement attack late last week which saw customers' pages replaced with an image of the Linux mascot.

Sophos is warning of a modified version of an iPhone worm which joins infected devices to a botnet via a Lithuanian server, and attempts to steal banking credentials.

A Dutch cracker is running a scam in which he targets jailbroken iPhones using the default SSH password and demands €5 for instructions on securing the device.

The Information Commissioner's Office has revealed that over 350 individual reports of data loss or theft from private and public sector companies were made last year.