The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is undertaking a number of cybersecurity research and development projects for the Department of Defense designed to prevent surprise cyberattacks.

Kaspersky Lab’s malware analyst Alexei Kadiev has posted an interesting analysis on how the Bredolab botnet – which infected around 30 million PCs at its height – functioned.

Security researchers from Symantec claim to have spotted a new crimeware toolkit being sold in the underground marketplace. The toolkit – known as Dream Loader – generates a trojan that is exclusively used to distribute malware.

Hotmail is claiming it can now tackle its biggest security issues with a way to send and receive active e-mail messages.

Shlomo Kramer is well known in the IT security industry for being a co-founder of Check Point and, more recently, has been CEO/president of data security specialist Imperva. Infosecurity caught up with him in London this week for his observations – and…

A new feature on Facebook is, at the very least, questionable, and may even be a social networking risk, says a leading IT security researcher.

Wondering what to give your loved one who just happens to be an information security professional? Why not give him or her the 12 principles of information security developed by the three leading information security organizations.

Bank of America recently won a ruling blocking four former employees of its U.S. Trust unit from using the bank’s client information at their new employer, Dynasty Financial Partners.

The Ohio State University said that a university server containing personal information on 760,000 people was accessed by hackers. The university stressed that it had no information that the personal information was taken from the server.

Leading technology businesses are backing an initiative to help organisations secure global supply chains against cybercrime threats.