A newly released survey from (ISC)² shows that federal CISOs are avoiding cloud computing applications due to concerns about replicating IT security policy in the cloud.
Research just released claims to show that China, the US and the Russian Federation contributed 49% of all web-based threats reported in April 2010.
Fresh from its security problems of earlier in the week when members' chat sessions were visible to third-party users, Facebook has come under fire for allegedly installing applications on users' Facebook areas by stealth.
Fresh from releasing a range of encrypted drive kits at last week's Infosecurity Europe show, Origin Storage says that the steady stream of advances in brute force decryption techniques – which started when Russia's Elcomsoft released the first versions of its Password Recovery suite of 'utilities'...
Security professionals lack confidence that political parties will do anything to improve cyber security, according to a survey by security firm Proofpoint.
Our Lady of Peace psychiatric hospital in Louisville has notified the public of the loss of a flash drive containing the personal information of 24 600 patients.
A researcher originally blocked from giving a talk about security in ATMs will go ahead and make his presentation at the Black Hat USA conference this year.
VeriSign has released a report that seeks to assist online businesses and other enterprises in protecting themselves against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
A USB drive that contained the medical records of patients and personal information on NHS staff was apparently lost by a member of staff of a secure medical unit in Scotland, and has turned up in a supermarket car park.
A North Carolina man has been accused of trying to hack into an automated teller machine and change its password, according to a complaint filed by the FBI.
Social networking giant Facebook temporarily shut down its live chat service this week, after a security flaw caused the site to begin showing some users' chat messages to their other contacts.
The ISF are this year focussing on expanding their membership to include government and SME membership.
Research just released claims to show that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are saying one thing and doing another when it comes to taking action to protect against the social networking activities of their staff.
Businesses are pumping information security investment into all the wrong areas, research has revealed.
Cybercriminals are selling fake and stolen accounts on social networking site Facebook in bulk in the underground economy, according to security researchers.
Two pump and dump scammers were convicted by a federal jury this week. G. David Gordon and Richard Clark, both of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will be sentenced for stock trading offenses committed between 2004 and 2006.
Today is the tenth anniversary of the LoveBug worm, which was arguably the first malware infection that used social engineering techniques to propagate itself.
In a bid to help prevent websites being hacked without the owner's knowledge, a Singapore-based hosting service provider has created a service which will alert site owners to any major activity on their sites/pages.
In an ironic turn of events, Luis Corrons, technical director with Panda Security, has revealed that two of the three techies allegedly behind the Mariposa botnet have requested jobs with Panda Security.
UK IT security and data protection firm Sophos has agreed to sell a majority interest in the company to global private equity group Apax Partners.