The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is warning Southern California Edison that it might take enforcement action against the utility because of cybersecurity lapses found in a May security audit of its San Onofre nuclear power plant.
Glasgow City Council has been forced to write to 37,835 suppliers and residents following the theft of an unencrypted laptop from its offices in Cochrane Street.
One of the more interesting aspects of the Flame malware was the MD5 collision attack that was used to infect new machines through Windows Update. MD5 collisions are not new, but this is the first attack discovered in the wild and deserves a more in-depth look. Trail of Bits is uniquely qualified to...
Anonymous and the various law enforcement agencies would, at first glance, appear to be pitted against each other. But events suggest that their intentions are remarkably similar.
Finnish online teen community Habbo Hotel has shut down its chat functions after reports of pornographic content, the site announced Wednesday.
Gartner’s John Girard and Lawrence Pingree went in depth on mobile security risks at this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit outside Washington DC. The primary risk to data breaches, as they see it, are allowing jailbroken or rooted devices to access your enterprise environment.
The UK’s data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioners Office, has written to Google demanding further information about the collection of personal data via its Street View project.
A disturbing 36% of chief executive officers (CEOs) have never received an information security report from their chief information security officer (CISO), a survey sponsored by CORE Security found.
Attorney General Eric Holder has appointed US attorneys to investigate the leak of information about the US government’s involvement in developing the Stuxnet worm, along with other recent national security breaches.
Michael Dell participated in one of the keynotes at this week’s Gartner Security and Risk Summit outside Washington DC, in what amounted to a fireside chat with Gartner analysts about Dell’s future in IT security.
Barracuda Labs has discovered a new Facebook spam methodology currently being seeded across the social network giant.
SandForce, acquired by LSI earlier this year, produces flash storage and SSD processors. For more than a year it has been selling its SF-2000 SSD Processor product with AES 256 encryption – that doesn’t work.
Six men associated with Confidential Access were given sentences at Southwark Crown Court on Friday (8 June), ranging from 6 years 9 months to 2 years suspended, for “a catalogue of fraud offences.”
On Friday 8 June, Redwood City-based Qualys Inc filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock.
The PCI Standards Security Council will require merchants to show proof of passing an internal vulnerability assessment beginning June 30, noted Alex Quilter, director of PCI at Qualys.
The exploding mobility trend will continue to advance only as long as people who use the devices feel they can be trusted. That was the focus of Mobiquity CEO Scott Snyder’s opening keynote at this week’s AT&T Cyber Security Conference in New York.
In an effort to break the cybersecurity logjam in the US Senate, two senators have proposed a compromise draft bill that they hope will be acceptable to both Democrats and Republicans.
Music website Last.fm joins the growing list of websites that have had their customers’ passwords exposed on the internet this week.
Over the next few years, health records in the UK will become largely digital. Andrew Lansley’s new NHS Information Strategy offers both huge benefits and serious dangers for the future of the NHS/patient relationship.
Freshshop, the site set up and run by Jay Moore (aka t0pp8uzz) was a one-stop card fraud shop. Now Moore and his money-mule helper and co-conspirator Damian Horne (aka GM) have been jailed following an investigation by the UK Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA).