One of the many reasons for securing your WiFi access point were rammed home recently after a New York man woke up to be surrounded by armed police early one morning.
Sony has warned users of its PlayStation Network (PSN) that their personal information, including payment card details, dates of birth, and addresses, may have been stolen.
The extensible code at the heart of the Zeus malware has spawned a new type of fraud designed to lure unsuspecting internet users into clicking through and infecting their machines. This time, reports Trusteer, the malware is targeting investment fraud, with rates of return reaching the 32% mark.
A full 40% of executives from electricity firms think their industry is more vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to a new report by McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
The Social Security Administration (SSA) published personally identifiable information, including social security numbers, of 36,657 living individuals erroneously listed on the agency’s death master file (DMF) over a three year period, the SSA’s Office of the Inspector General (IG) concluded.
Reports are coming in that the son of Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of Kaspersky Labs, has been returned to his parents following a covert operation carried out by the FSB, the Russian security police agency.
Facebook has begun introducing two-factor authentication designed to prevent hackers from accessing users' accounts.
Skype has released a new version of Skype for Android that fixes a vulnerability in the application identified last week. Adrian Asher, Skype’s chief information security officer, announced the news in recent blog.
Infosecurity is saddened to report that the 20-year-old student son of Kaspersky Labs founder Yevgeny (Eugene) Kaspersky has gone missing and may have been kidnapped.
Infosecurity is saddened to report that the 20-year-old student son of Kaspersky Labs founder Yevgeny (Eugene) Kaspersky has gone missing and may have been kidnapped.
NuBridges, an authentication services specialist that has just been acquired by Liaison Technologies, has taken the wraps off what it claims is the industry's first tokenisation-as-a-service (TaaS) facility that stores all data in the cloud.
Information security challenges are confronting organizations as they transition from IPv4 to IPv6, according to Patrick Bedwell, vice president of product marketing at network security appliance provider Fortinet.
A phishing email attack that injected data-stealing malware into its networks forced the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to shut down internet access and email last week, according to news reports.
Al Qaeda - AQ - is now using bluetooth broadcasting to radiate terrorist material between users' mobiles. The technology has been successfully used by the terrorist organisation to broadcast subversive promotional videos and material, including ritual beheadings, on a pocket-to-pocket basis between...
Some observers have criticised the PlayBook, the BlackBerry tablet computer, which was unveiled this week, for not having on-tablet email and allied office functions. But, says Nader Heinen, a security advisor with BlackBerry's security group, there's a reason for this omission - security.
Organisations must accept change, embrace consumerisation of IT, and ensure security by focusing on the most sensitive data, says Merlin Lord Erroll.
Microsoft said it will begin disclosing third-party bugs as part of a revamping of its vulnerability disclosure practices.
While a panel of infosec practitioners during one keynote did not go so far as to outright endorse BlackBerry mobile devices, the general consensus was that the handsets from Research In Motion offer greater security for the mobile workforce – above and beyond today’s increasingly popular consumer s...
ViaSat, the new name for Stonewood, has analysed more than 2,500 data breaches reported to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and concluded that the ICO needs penalise organisations more for data breaches.
While a panel of infosec practitioners during one keynote did not go so far as to outright endorse BlackBerry mobile devices, the general consensus was that the handsets from Research In Motion offer greater security for the mobile workforce – above and beyond today’s increasingly popular consumer s...