The Cyber Security Challenge UK 2011/2012 – the second year-long challenge designed to raise awareness of IT security skills amongst students of all ages – is now under way.
The number of compromised records involved in data breaches plummeted from 144 million in 2009 to only 4 million in 2010, but the number of data breaches soared to its highest number ever, according to the 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.
The SANS Institute has announced its intent to offer VOIP security courses in Europe for the first time. Plans call for the course to be offered at the institute's Amsterdam operations centre from May onwards.
Apple has released security updates to its Safari web browser as well as its Leopard and Snow Leopard operating systems.
In response to theDepartment of Justice (DoJ) and Microsoft, Google said that the General Services Administration (GSA) had determined that Google Apps for Government was certified under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), a claim that GSA appears to back.
An elementary security error involving the use of black text on a black background with redacted security documents published on the web effectively made the IT prowess of the Ministry of Defence, and other government departments, a laughing stock over the weekend.
Trusteer, the in-browser security specialist, recently conducted a honeypot social engineering test on 100 users of LinkedIn, with 68% of users potentially infecting themselves.
Organizations are wasting money beefing up security at the perimeter when they should be focusing on securing access within the network, said Adam Bosnian, executive vice president Americas and corporate development at Cyber-Ark Software
Cybercriminals know the value of data better than the organizations they are targeting, according to a security strategist who studies hacker behavior.
Cybercriminals know the value of data better than the organisations they are targeting, according to a security strategist who studies hacker behaviour.
Information security firm McAfee and industrial giant Siemens are teaming to improve security against malware, such as Stuxnet, that targets industrial control systems running critical infrastructure protection.
The inaugural World Cyber Security Technology Research Summit was held at Queen's Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) in Belfast in March. Of all the delegates that Infosecurity had the pleasure of speaking with, William Barker, chief cyber security advisor NIST, has arguably the most...
A new app for Google Android and jailbroken iPhones allows users to make calls with their own choice of caller ID. Known as SpoofPro, the app routes calls via the company’s servers in the US, allowing any caller ID to be generated.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) and the FBI announced this week the shutdown of the Coreflood botnet that infected more than 2 million computers worldwide with keylogging malware designed to steal financial information from victims.
At the World Cyber Research Summit in Belfast on March 16th, Infosecurity’s Eleanor Dallaway had the opportunity to interview John Bumgarner of the US Cyber Consequences Unit.
Research just released claims that in order to increase security on an organisation's network, managers should remove admin level rights for end users.
A group of "expatriate executives and engineers" have quietly wrested control of Libyan's cellular network in the rebel-held areas of the country, allowing officials with the transitional government in the East to communicate wirelessly with each other once again.
Close to half of IT professionals surveyed by smart device security firm Mocana said that they did not believe their organizations could adequately manage the security risks posed by smart devices.
The US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced it is researching into the area of full disk encryption (FDE) on Google Android and Apple iPhone handsets.
The US Department of Justice said in court documents that the Google Apps for Government cloud-based IT suite was not certified under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), despite claims by Google that it was.