Five days into the Kali Linux release at BlackHat EU in Amsterdam, and we’re still not fully recovered. Since the release, we’ve had just over 90,000 downloads, a dozen or so package updates, added more articles to the Kali Documentation, s…

In the wake of the high-profile celebrity and politician doxxing campaign last week, in which private information about dozens of celebs from Michelle Obama to Kim Kardashian was posted online, more information about the provenance of the information h…

The first sign of a problem was the simple message, this site is ‘down for maintenance’. This was later replaced by the current message, NVD ‘has experienced an issue with its web services and is currently not available.’ The reality is, NVD got hacked…

State-sponsored malware such as Stuxnet and Flame raised awareness of ICS/SCADA vulnerabilities, and the potential for serious infrastructure damage via them. New research presented today at Blackhat Europe discusses the findings of a honeynet study in…

Even though organizations are increasingly aware of the damage that can be done to their reputation and customer trust through the misuse or loss of sensitive data, a new report reveals that only 22% of businesses have implemented secure printing initi…

Activists for Tibet and China’s Uyghur community are being targeted once again, this time with an Adobe PDF vulnerability using the MiniDuke malware.

Organizations citing cybersecurity costs as an impediment to implementing a layered defense should rethink their priorities: Denial of service (DDoS) and malware infection recovery costs range into the thousands of dollars – per day.

The danger comes from staff bringing both their personal devices and their personal preferences to work – whether that’s listening to the radio, watching the latest episode of their favorite soap during break periods, or browsing YouTube.

That information security is really an aspect of organizational risk management is well known in theory, but is now being mirrored in practice. New research demonstrates that CSOs are increasingly adopting a risk-based rather than tick-box approach to …

Skype is running into a contretemps, as it were, with the French telecom authority over lawful intercept regulations, with some executives possibly facing criminal charges for non-compliance.