Ever since Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s claim that the US was facing a digital Pearl Harbor, a growing number of security experts have begun to question the reality of such threats.

One day after Research in Motion’s share price tumbled after damning comments from an analyst, the company announced that it has received FIPS 140-2 security certification allowing the BB10 to be deployed by government agencies.

Call it malicious software on a hill: a new version of Citadel, the crimeware kit, has emerged to inspire hackers everywhere. That is, if they can infiltrate the Russian underground far enough to locate it and pay the $3,000 entry fee.

CESG (Communications-Electronics Security Group) and CPNI (Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure), being arms of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) have today launched a new UK Cyber Incident Response Scheme.

Details are emerging of a major hack of Coca-Cola by Chinese criminals in 2009, where internal emails and documents were stolen, and malware compromised access to all Microsoft Windows servers, work stations and laptops on the network .

Faced with an age of unprecedented growth and scope of cyberthreats, the Information Security Forum (ISF) has reached an agreement with the (ISC)² to provide its extensive research library for use in development of (ISC)² examinations and official educ…

In the wake of a massive security breach at the South Carolina tax collection agency, a former South Carolina state senator has expanded a class-action lawsuit over the exposure of millions of state tax returns to include those responsible for providin…

Lumension announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of CoreTrace IP, suggesting that it was prompted by growing concerns over APTs and increasing interest in whitelist defenses.

New malware, backdoor.ADDNEW, has been identified. It is based on the Russian DaRK DDoSer malware and has a surprising link with the Gh0st RAT trojan.

NullCrew remembered the 5th of November by breaking into mod.co.uk and stealing and dumping more than 3400 email addresses and passwords. While the date of the breach cannot be verified, it does look as if it happened on the Guy Fawkes anniversary.