Clever hackers are exploiting a number of loopholes in US credit reporting systems to substantially improve their credit rating and so gain access to zero percent loans and low-cost credit cards, an information security researcher said over the weekend.

Cybercrime is at the top of the Information Security Forum’s (ISF) Threat Horizon list for 2011, which highlights the growth of `crimeware as a service’ offered by criminal gangs, along with infiltration into organisations to carry out insider attacks.

At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers have revealed how the security of San Francisco’s plans to become a showcase for the US on computerised parking has been compromised.

This morning, 30 July, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Robert Lentz, Senior Information Assurance Official for the Department of Defense, declared the need for two extra cyber-czar roles: one for identity, and one for information security tra…

At the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 29 July 2009, one conference session addressed the changing nature of the information security trade press. A panel of experienced journalists answered questions on the relationship between trade and mainstream …

Research just released by MX Logic suggests that spam as a percentage of overall email has reached its highest point ever, currently accounting for 94.6% of all email.

Should vendors include programme code from third parties, is the question experts are asking, now that Adobe has acknowledged that it used Microsoft’s allegedly flawed development code in its products.

Access assurance may be a complex area, but Stuart Hodkinson, UK general manager with Courion Corporation – along with Fran Howarth, a principal analyst with Quocirca – had more than a few answers in an educational and informative webinar this week.

Symantec has joined the growing ranks of IT security vendors that are offering their pooled information on the latest ITsec threats as a value-added outsourced option for major corporates.

The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.