It seems that Russian police are working steadily to crush the rising tide of so-called pharma spam campaigns, with one security researcher having heard about a raid on the hackers behind the Rx-Promotions scheme.
A German IT security vendor has discovered a version of Zeus that has been signed with its own digital certificate – a move that could fool some corporates into installing the malware thinking it is a legitimate piece of code.
Credant Technologies has started testing its data encryption technology in the cloud with a select number of beta test clients, promising other cloud security offerings in the near future.
A security researcher has detailed how a flaw has been discovered and exploited on Rapidshare, the world's largest file-sharing service.
Oracle is fixing 21 flaws in its Java SE and Java for Business products in its February critical patch update issued this week.
Research just published claims to show that a failure to invest in secure software delivery is placing businesses at risk
Citicus, a corporate risk management and compliance specialist, has released a risk analysis/management app for the iOS range of Apple devices – the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Integrity and honesty top the list of skills needed for the current and future federal cybersecurity workforce, according to an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) survey.
Research just published claims that end-of-life IT assets - especially portable devices like smartphones and laptops - pose a serious data security threat to many firms.
A new pharma spam campaign uses the Google brand. More than 250 similar blog-related campaigns have been tracked in the last two days.
The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office announced that personal information of 3,655 patients at the Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) was placed onto a publicly available website.
Application whitelisting technology is hardly a novel concept – in fact, the technology has been available to enterprises for some years now. But, as GlobalSCAPE executives told Infosecurity at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, application whitelisting for consumers is just around the cor...
Visitors to two websites operated by the BBC were injected by malicious code earlier this week, opening up users to attacks by hackers, claims Websense.
Lumension has released a beta version of its free Application Scanner v2.0 that scans executable files and identifies all applications within the endpoint environment, along with its Endpoint Intelligence Center (EIC) that consolidates malware, vulnerability, patch, and application information with...
Having spoken on the ‘Public, meet private: Lessons learned in chasing cyber crooks’ panel at the RSA 2011 conference in San Francisco, Pedro Bustamante, senior research analyst at Panda Security, tells Infosecurity’s Eleanor Dallaway why geography is obstructing cyber legal justice
User education is often touted as a cornerstone of any effective IT security program. But as Jack Daniel, community development manager with internet security firm Astaro contends, not every organization will reap benefits from educating its end-users.
While nation-states actively attempt to exploit the networks of the US government, critical infrastructure, and commercial networks, US Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn told the RSA Conference audience that terrorist groups are inevitably more likely to fire the most severe type of destructi...
Security researcher Brian Krebs has had a long-standing interest in the increasing problem of ATM skimmers - fraudsters who install hidden gadgets on cash machines with the intention of ripping off bank card customers. And he has posted an in-depth analysis of one such scam earlier today.
Panda Security has launched a senior citizens' safer internet campaign, with the aim of educating people over 60 on how to make their internet activities more safe.
The New York City Health and Hospital Corp. (HHC) said that personal information of nearly 1.7 million hospital patients, staff, vendors, and contractors was stolen from a GRM Management Information Services van.