Information security is rapidly moving up the board agenda, particularly in light of proposed EU legislation that would compel companies to report cyber breaches. Neelie Kroes, Digital agenda commissioner has said that Europe needs to improve how it de…

Enrique T. Salem, former Symantec president and CEO, has joined the FireEye board of directors, the company announced today

A large malvertising campaign has been serving up malware infections via web advertisements from online marketing services for at least five months, a Symantec investigation has revealed.

On Friday whitelist security firm Bit9 admitted that it had been compromised, and that its code-signing certificates had been forged to attack a small number of its customers.

When it comes to malware infestations, it turns out that the most wired regions of the world are actually the least vulnerable.

Even though corporate cyber espionage is a perennial headline-grabber, it turns out that the greatest danger of losing trade secrets comes from within.

Some ring in the New Year with champagne, others with highly coordinated theft operations. In the latter camp, Visa has revealed that cybercriminals pulled off an $11 million ATM heist as 2012 wound to a close.

Slovakia-based security vendor ESET has introduced NOD32 Antivirus 6 and ESET Smart Security 6 with anti-theft, a dedicated anti-phishing module and social media scanner

According to the SSL Labs website, “There is little doubt that SSL is the technology that protects the internet. By transforming insecure communication channels into opaque data streams, SSL allows sensitive data to reach its destination uncompromised….

Everyone likes to catch some naptime shut-eye now and again – including, apparently, malware. FireEye Labs has encountered stealthy malware that employs extended sleep calls to evade automated analysis systems capturing its behavior.