The interconnected nature of the global internet was highlighted earlier this week when a DDoS attack on a Californian company also downed Vodafone New Zealand’s international web access.

It it with deep regret that Infosecurity has to report that Eugene Schultz – arguably one of the founding figures of the IT security industry – passed away on Sunday after a short illness.

Another primarily SIEM firm is about to fall off the radar, as McAfee announced plans to purchase security information and event management (SIEM) provider NitroSecurity.

Academic tenure discourages educational investment in cybersecurity innovation, Paul Barford, a computer sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as the chief scientist at cloud security specialist Qualys, told the Security In…

Today IBM made two announcements regarding its security business: the planned purchase of Q1 Labs and its intent to establish the IBM Security Systems division.

The East Surrey Hospital has admitted it lost the details of around 800 patients on unencrypted memory stick in September of last year. The revelation was made in the Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust’s annual report.

According to security researcher Brian Krebs, phishers and cybercriminals have been casting an unusually wide net of late, sending out huge volumes of fraudulent email designed to spread password-stealing banking trojans. And, he reports, judging from …

General Motors’ OnStar navigation and emergency services provider has reversed itself and decided not to continue to collect data from vehicles of former OnStar subscribers.

Cloud security specialist Qualys is supporting two Convergence notaries, based on an approach developed by security researcher Moxie Marlinspike, as an alternative to SSLs and certificate authorities (CAs).

The US Departments of Homeland Security and Commerce are seeking public comments on a proposed voluntary program under which Internet service providers (ISPs) would notify users when their computers have been infected by botnet malware.