It now seems that the hacking of the servers of the SquirrelMail open-source email project in late June may have been worse than originally reported.
Clever hackers are exploiting a number of loopholes in US credit reporting systems to substantially improve their credit rating and so gain access to zero percent loans and low-cost credit cards, an information security researcher said over the weekend.
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers have revealed how the security of San Francisco's plans to become a showcase for the US on computerised parking has been compromised.
Cybercrime is at the top of the Information Security Forum's (ISF) Threat Horizon list for 2011, which highlights the growth of `crimeware as a service' offered by criminal gangs, along with infiltration into organisations to carry out insider attacks.
Access assurance may be a complex area, but Stuart Hodkinson, UK general manager with Courion Corporation - along with Fran Howarth, a principal analyst with Quocirca - had more than a few answers in an educational and informative webinar this week.
Should vendors include programme code from third parties, is the question experts are asking, now that Adobe has acknowledged that it used Microsoft's allegedly flawed development code in its products.
Research just released by MX Logic suggests that spam as a percentage of overall email has reached its highest point ever, currently accounting for 94.6% of all email.
At the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 29 July 2009, one conference session addressed the changing nature of the information security trade press. A panel of experienced journalists answered questions on the relationship between trade and mainstream media, the rise of Google news, and the financia...
This morning, 30 July, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Robert Lentz, Senior Information Assurance Official for the Department of Defense, declared the need for two extra cyber-czar roles: one for identity, and one for information security training and education.
Symantec has joined the growing ranks of IT security vendors that are offering their pooled information on the latest ITsec threats as a value-added outsourced option for major corporates.
The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.
The Computer forensics department at the University of Alabama has tracked down the Zeus Bot virus to a raft of fake internet postcards circulating on the Internet.
The Fifth International Forum on Combating Cybercrime - a two-day security conference - opened in Damascus, Syria, yesterday and, say the organisers, is a great success.
The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.
Veteran IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab has warned internet users to be aware of rogue or scam software that purports to be an IT security application, but is merely a vehicle to extract revenue - and possibly even card details - from unsuspecting web users.
One of Russia's most powerful business lobby groups has told the country's government that Internet telephony services like Skype are a threat to the country's businesses and to national security.
Finjan, the business internet security specialist, claims its gateway security technology can easily counter a zero-day vulnerability of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash Player
A three million pounds-plus fine imposed on three of HSBC's divisions for failing to adequately protect customer data could easily have been avoided if the banking group has made use of digital data vaulting technology, says Cyber-Ark.
A sophisticated underground economy has grown up to exploit the millions of personal computers that have been infected with rogue software that turns them into 'zombies' controlled by botnet masters, says an IT security expert.
If you ever wondered how to start Windows XP without a password and without going down to source code level, wonder no more, as Butterscotch's content producer Stacey Reed has posted an informative video tutorial showing how it's done.