James Whyte, head of IT service delivery with F&C Investments, and a member of the Jericho Forum, says that there is now a clear need for an effective - and secure - digital ecosystem in cyberspace.
Reports are coming in that the source code for Zeus, a long-running trojan that has been modified many times since the summer of 2007, is now available on several underground forums.
The reputation of the apparent cybercriminal's playground that is Facebook took another battering this week after a Symantec researcher revealed that as many as 100,000 Facebook applications are leaking data to third parties.
The theft of credit and debit card numbers from PIN-pad tampering at Michaels stores in the Chicago area extends nationwide, the company admitted this week.
The Canadian government is vulnerable to a security breach similar to the US government’s WikiLeaks snafu that resulted in the leak of hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents, concluded an internal government report.
Microsoft's acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion has not gone down well in some quarters, with some experts questioning the wisdom of allowing the Redmond giant access to such a massive unified communications service.
The Jericho Forum has taken the wraps off a set of best practice identity principles - enshrined in a set of commandments - which seek to lay down the ground rules for IT security professionals when dealing with the complex world of digital identities.
The reputation of the apparent cybercriminal's playground that is Facebook took another battering this week after a Symantec researcher revealed that as many as 100,000 Facebook applications are leaking data to third parties.
Many organizations are not equipped to prevent and respond to web infrastructure failures caused by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and Domain Name System (DNS) failures, according to research commissioned by VeriSign.
A researcher at the Context Information Security consulting firm has identified a number of serious vulnerabilities in the new WebGL 3D graphics standard enabled by default in Firefox 4 and Google Chrome browsers, and as an option in the Apple Safari browser.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is looking to expand its authority to protect the electrical grid against cyber attacks.
In a move that has caused raised eyebrows in the smartphone industry, Sony Ericsson has posted detailed information on how to hack its Xperia range of Android smartphones.
TalkTalk, a third-party telco and broadband supplier, has launched the UK's first ISP-level broadband security service.
Context Information Security claims to have discovered a range of security flaws in WebGL technology, a web-based extension to the JavaScript programming language that allows 3D graphic images to appear with users’ web browsers.
Hackers appear to be using social networking and news trending topics, judging from a recent analysis from Luis Corrons, technical director with Panda Security, who notes that the death of Osama bin Laden and the Royal Wedding have been used as lures in the last few weeks.
LastPass, the popular online password management service, has started the lengthy process of forcing members to undergo master password changes following anomalies on its inter-server data logging systems.
The FBI says an audit finding insufficient national cybersecurity investigation skills does not reflect current expertise and results.
Sony said that it appears the massive data breach affecting 100 million of its PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Entertainment Online (SOE) customers may have been carried out by the hacker group Anonymous, although the group denies responsibility.
Hard on the heels of a welter of Google Android malware stories, data security specialist Imperva says its research team has discovered how cybercriminals are using Android apps to infect users with trojans.
The latest monthly threat report from Fortinet claims that 2.3 million PCs were infected by the CoreFlood botnet, which was dismantled recently by an FBI sting operation. In addition, the report claims to show that Russian domain pharma sites now dominate the spam selling scene.