Personal information of more than 16,000 patients at two health facilities in the Minneapolis area have been compromised as the result of a stolen laptop, the facilities admitted this week.
A cybercriminal organization is creating a superbotnet by sending out billions of malware-laden emails for an unknown purpose, according to Commtouch researcher Avi Turiel.
Reports are coming in that the MySQL.com site was hacked and booby-trapped to serve up malware earlier this week – unconfirmed reports from security researcher Brian Krebs suggest that hacked access to the site was sold by cybercriminals for $3,000.
Around two million Massachusetts citizens, one out of every three state residents, had personal information compromised through data theft or loss since the beginning of 2010, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley.
The Dutch government is revoking the DigiNotar’s subordinate certificate authorities (CAs) under the Staat der Nederlanden root certificates.
The breach of websites hosted by Go Daddy was likely the result of a phishing attack, said Nicholas Percoco, head of Trustwave SpiderLabs.
As reported elsewhere over the weekend, a 23-year-old Arizona man was arrested late last week in connection with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in May and was, according to security researcher Brian Krebs, a model student who saw himself one day defending networks at the Department of Defen...
If you use Facebook, you'll undoubtedly have noticed a series of major changes to your web interface over the last few days. According to a Trend Micro solutions architect, users should not lose sight of the fact that the underlying data remains intact, and there are still security issues that need...
It looks as though the security of the password system on Apple's OS X Lion operating system has been compromised, with a security researcher claiming that there is a workaround that allows users to crack the password on a Mac system that has been password-protected.
Avast, the central European IT security vendor, has acquired ITAgents, an Austrian developer of Google Android apps, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition has already completed, Infosecurity understands.
Cybersecurity startups often fail to attract venture capital (VC) because investors want to invest in companies that will makes millions quickly, but not all information security startup are interested in that model, observed Chris Wysopal, founder and chief technology officer with application secur...
The prevalence and intensity of SQL injection attacks are increasing, according to Imperva's Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) report.
Two security researchers claim to have found a way of breaking the SSL/TLS encryption that is widely used to guarantee the reliability and privacy of data exchanged between web browsers and servers.
CA Technologies has announced the creation of a European research centre in co-operation with Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech (UPC).
Research just released from Check Point claims to show that 42% of UK firms experienced 25 or more social engineering attacks in the last two years, including targeted attacks such as spear phishing.
On the first day of the (ISC)² Congress 2011, (ISC)² announced that it has formed the (ISC)² Foundation - a new charitable organisation dedicated to delivering education and awareness programmes to communities around the globe to make the cyber world a safer place for everyone.
On the opening day of the first (ISC)² Congress, collocated with ASIS 2011 in Orlando, Florida, the information security professional body announced the formation of the (ISC)² chapter programme.
Barracuda Networks has launched its No Limits road show in Europe, allowing clients to meet the security firm's CEO Dean Drako, chief research officer Dr. Paul Judge and the rest of the senior management. The tour will also, says the company, provide end users with best practice information and advi...
A Symantec security expert has spotted a variant of the Morto worm that seems to parse requests through a Chinese online gaming server. The good news – from a UK perspective – is that the game it parses commands through are aimed at the Chinese community in the Far East.
Businesses should consider self-encrypting drives (SEDs) for new installations that hold significant volumes of sensitive data, says Gartner.