The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved Intel’s $7.7bn acquisition of security software giant, McAfee.

IT security software vendor BitDefender has linked up with peer-to-peer data development company BitTorrent – which developed the file-sharing protocol of the same name – to offer the 80 million estimated users of the protocol an integrated malware det…

Inadvertent disclose of sensitive information by well-meaning workers will pose the greatest information security threat to organizations in the coming year, according to Frank Kenney, vice president of global strategy at Ipswitch.

Google has deleted all UK payload data collected by its Street View cars from unsecured British WiFi networks, the company has confirmed.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is undertaking a number of cybersecurity research and development projects for the Department of Defense designed to prevent surprise cyberattacks.

Kaspersky Lab’s malware analyst Alexei Kadiev has posted an interesting analysis on how the Bredolab botnet – which infected around 30 million PCs at its height – functioned.

Security researchers from Symantec claim to have spotted a new crimeware toolkit being sold in the underground marketplace. The toolkit – known as Dream Loader – generates a trojan that is exclusively used to distribute malware.

Hotmail is claiming it can now tackle its biggest security issues with a way to send and receive active e-mail messages.

Shlomo Kramer is well known in the IT security industry for being a co-founder of Check Point and, more recently, has been CEO/president of data security specialist Imperva. Infosecurity caught up with him in London this week for his observations – and…

A new feature on Facebook is, at the very least, questionable, and may even be a social networking risk, says a leading IT security researcher.