In a project that started from law enforcement agencies’ request to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was then farmed out to the US Navy, Obscure Technologies of California has been awarded a contract to find ways of hacking game cons…

More than half of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are most concerned about SQL injection attacks against their databases, according to a survey of 6,000 SMBs users of GreenSQL’s database security product.

Adobe has shipped updates for Reader and Acrobat that fix four security holes that could cause the application to crash and allow an attacker to take control of an affected system.

Anonymous claimed credit for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against a number of high-tech trade groups in retaliation for their support of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).

Google has released an update for Chrome that fixes a problem with the SSL certificate when users attempt to connect to sites over HTTPS.

Google has released an update for Chrome that fixes a problem with the SSL certificate when users attempt to connect to sites over HTTPS.

The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) is now admitting that social security numbers of up to 280,000 individuals were stolen from the Department of Technology Services server, a 10-fold increase from the original estimate.

Twitter is usually described as a micro-blogging social network. To many who monitor its ‘trending topics’ it is also an early warning news service, frequently pointing users to breaking news before the traditional news media reports it.

Companies that monitor the end point behavior of their remote workers will have to start monitoring their (internet) behavior in bed. That at least is the inference to be drawn from a new street survey conducted by Infosecurity Europe.

Cybercriminals are sending spam to AT&T Wireless customers with huge bills in order to trick recipients into clicking on a link to malicious websites, according to Commtouch.