A security researcher has developed proof of concept for a PC backdoor that is both undetectable and very difficult to remove – and capable of infecting more than 100 different motherboards.

In a deal unanimously agreed by the AuthenTec board, but not yet by its shareholders, Apple Inc is to buy the mobile security firm at a price valuing shares at $8.00 – a 58% premium on the earlier closing price.

Vasilis Pappas has won Microsoft’s $200,000 BlueHat defensive computer technology research prize for his kBouncer, an efficient and fully transparent return-oriented programming (ROP) mitigation technique.

The US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new air traffic control system could be vulnerable to cyber attack, warned researcher Andrei Costin at the Black Hat conference this week in Las Vegas.

On the day of the official launch of the 2012 London Olympic Games, GFI Software warns Android gamers about fake 2012 apps being offered from Russian websites.

YouView, an internet-connected variant of Freeview – chaired by Lord Sugar and supported by all the major UK TV channels, and ISPs such as BT and TalkTalk – has finally launched in the UK, but to more criticism than praise.

After having its command-and-control server shut down, the Madhi (Messiah) malware is back with improved features, warns Kaspersky Lab.

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a scoring system for computer security managers to assess the severity of security risks caused by software misuse.

One of the three finalist entries for Microsoft’s first-ever BlueHat Prize for building new security defense technologies is now part of the software giant’s free Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET).

Close to 15% of medical device recalls by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between January 2009 and May 2011 involved software problems, which could pose privacy risks to patient data, according to a study funded by the US Department of Health…