The 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime study is published today. It’s good news and bad news. The frequency of successful cyber attacks has more than doubled over the last three years, but the annual cost to organizations has slowed dramatically in the last two …

In a new twist to ‘rogueware’, Panda Security has warned that its cloud antivirus product name is being used to mask a particularly unpleasant trojan called DarkAngle. While victims may believe that they are installing anti-malware, they may actually b…

A weak digital certificate is defined as one signed with an RSA key of less than 1024 bits. Since it is now generally accepted that keys of a lesser length can be brute-forced with modern computing power, Microsoft is upping the ante by forcing a move …

American think tanks are becoming a big intelligence target for hackers from China and other countries, according to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee.

Android malware for premium SMS fraud continues to grow as a category, and most of it rests on the shoulders of one family of malware: Android.FakeInstaller. However, while FakeInstaller is well-known and included in mobile security software, hackers a…

Microsoft has bought the multi-factor authentication (MFA) company PhoneFactor. Financial terms of the deal have not been released. PhoneFactor will largely continue as is until its products are ‘onboarded’ into the Microsoft Volume Licensing programs….

Data loss is the biggest mobile security danger, reveals a new Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) report, but emerging concerns include rogue Wi-Fi access points and Near-Field Communications (NFC) exploitation.

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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) chooses CPA over CAPS for its encryption – both CESG-administered security accreditation schemes – and saves the British tax-payer £2.4 million.

Hackers who employ the man-in-the-browser (MiTB) gambit to steal information from computer systems have found a way to more efficiently cast their net. According to researchers at Trusteer, a new strain of MiTB malware can adopt a “one-size-fits-all” a…