The task faced by Cyber Security Challenge UK is to fill the skills gap – there are simply not enough security specialists coming through the system. The organization’s latest innovation is a new 5-day summer camp to be held at Lancaster university next month.
Anti-virus companies and researchers are warning about a new targeted and destructive virus variously known as Shamoon and Disttrack. It seems to be targeted at the oil industry – and it wipes PCs.
Google has announced plans to hand out bonuses, in addition to its existing bug bounties, to researchers who report particularly troublesome flaws in its Chrome browser.
At least three dozen members of the Atlanta police force provided personal information to scammers who posed as agents selling insurance benefits.
NASA’s inspector general (IG) is criticizing the space agency for not being ready to combat advanced persistent threats (APTs).
Despite the perception that bring your own device (BYOD) saves organizations money, more than two-thirds of IT professionals believe it increases costs, primarily due to the added security risks and measures required, according to a survey by Lieberman Software.
During June, Google researchers seeking to strengthen the security posture of the embedded PDF reader for Chrome discovered numerous vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. Most of these were patched in this week’s Adobe security update – but not for Linux.
After more than a week of persistent DDoS attack by Anti Leaks, WikiLeaks is now available again, courtesy, it says, of increased capacity and CloudFlare protection.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted by Sweden (definitely) and the US (probably) is inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London seeking political asylum. Today, Thursday 16 August, is the day that Ecuador has said it will announce its decision.
Security vendor Prolexic has turned the tables on cybercriminals and exposed a vulnerability in the Dirt Jumper toolkit used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against corporate networks.
Bitcoinica is a UK-based online trading site for the online cash alternative ‘bitcoin’. Following its second hack, Bitcoinica was taken offline and will remain off-line until a ‘transitional’ period designed to improve security is complete.
Kaspersky Lab is asking for help from the information security community to decrypt the mysterious Gauss’ encrypted warhead suspected of targeting industrial control systems.
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is dismissing congressional privacy concerns about the mass aggregation of consumer data.
Commtouch has detected a series of recent attacks that contain emails promising great Groupon “deals”, but deliver malware instead.
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act is used by public bodies, including the police, to obtain phone and text information on customers from telecoms companies. It was originally designed to help combat terrorism and serious crime.
MIT’s Technology Review says that Apple’s iPhone and iTab security has improved to the extent that, if used correctly, it can prove unbreakable even to law enforcement.
The Citadel trojan is best known for its recent delivery of the Reveton ransomware. Now Trusteer has discovered a Citadel-based man-in-the-browser (MitB) attack aimed against VPN-using employees at a major international airport.
Oracle is warning customers about a privilege escalation vulnerability in its Oracle Database Server that could enable an attacker to gain control of the affected server.
Defense contractor MacAuley-Brown (MacB) has won a multimillion dollar contract to provide cybersecurity to the US Air Force (USAF).
Christopher Mark Doyon, AKA Commander X, is the voice of the Peoples Liberation Front, and a high-profile and respected voice within Anonymous. He has now publicly debunked the idea of Anonymous 2.