The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to increase investment in cybersecurity research by 50% over the next five years and focus more on offensive cyberwar capabilities, according to the head of the agency.

Infosecurity has reported on the value of stolen credit and debit card credentials several times this year, but now a security researcher has analyzed the value of individual credentials such as your birthday or mother’s maiden name – that’s right, the…

Information security professionals collaborating to outsmart hackers was cited as the most effective way to preempt hacker attacks, according to a survey of Wisegate members.

Microsoft is giving IT administrators a break for Thanksgiving, with only four security bulletins for this month’s Patch Tuesday.

With the rise in cyberattacks against industrial targets, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the professional association responsible for developing IT and other industry standards, is revising its information security protoc…

With the rise in cyberattacks against industrial targets, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the professional association responsible for developing IT and other industry standards, is revising its information security protoc…

Research just released by Tufin claims that the cost of manually auditing firewall – a process that is often required as a regulatory compliance issue – is hidden and extraordinarily high.

Two days after Anonymous threatened to attack the Israeli government, the servers of much of Israel’s government systems were down yesterday. Although some Anonymous supporters crowed their victory on security forums, the government said that the probl…

Infosecurity has learned that Patricia Titus, formerly global chief information security officer (CISO) of Unisys, will depart the Blue Bell, Penn.-based IT services company to join Symantec in the same role.

Despite the proliferation of personal mobile devices in the workplace, the network access control (NAC) market for those devices is still immature, observed Andrew Kellett, senior analyst with Ovum research firm.