Browsers come ready-configured with their own start-up home page; but the default Opera home page (portal.opera.com) was compromised with an obfuscated redirect leading to the blackhole exploit kit.

Call it a hacking-as-a-service (HaaS): a group renting network server access for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco Systems, is taking advantage of weak passwords to offer logins for cheap. Despite its discovery three weeks ago, the se…

No doubt eagerly awaited by online privacy experts, Google has updated its biennial Transparency Report, revealing that governments around the world made nearly 21,000 requests for access to Google data in the first six months of 2012 – a sharp increas…

On Tuesday a hacker calling himself ViruS_HimA and claiming to be Egyptian announced that he had hacked an Adobe server and dumped over 150,000 emails. Associated passwords were also leaked.

“On October 31, 2012, a NASA laptop and official NASA documents issued to a Headquarters employee were stolen from the employee’s locked vehicle,” says a 13 November email to all NASA employees. It warns that the laptop contains unencrypted personally …

Shining a major spotlight on the importance of privacy, Skype has addressed a major vulnerability that allowed hackers to take over any Skype account, armed only with the user’s e-mail address. The flaw was being actively exploited in the wild for thre…

While global cybersecurity attention tends to be placed on headline-grabbing exploits by hacktivists and cyber-espionage activities, there is a much less high-profile but no less dangerous threat festering: Online fraud rings, bent on identity theft.

Further light on the hack of Neelie Kroes’ members of staff while attending an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) conference in Azerbaijan has emerged: Laptops that used a Baku hotel’s unsecured WiFi were affected.

To help IT auditors stay up to date with the latest organizational requirements, ISACA has published three new customizable IT audit/assurance programs. They cover cybercrime detection and prevention, the use of biometrics, e-commerce security, and the…

Cyber-trading and financial security systems can take a page from the nuclear industry, according to a new report from Foresight. While the report does not make policy recommendations, it defines fundamental questions that the authors believe should be…