Recently, it came to light that a new cyber-espionage APT dubbed XtremeRAT was targeting Israeli government and police entities. While not advanced, the threat is most certainly persistent: New analysis shows that the threat has been around much longer…

Torrent site what.cd reported on Friday, 9 November (via Twitter) that, “The site, tracker and IRC will be down while we sort out this DDOS…” As of writing (Monday, 12 November), the site is still down, with the finger being pointed at Zeiko.

Four of the six patch bulletins are rated ‘critical’, one is ‘important’ and one is ‘moderate’. Three of the updates will require a system restart, while the remaining three may require a restart. Admins should therefore be prepared for a disruptive ti…

As more companies turn to the cloud to provide redundancy and back-up services for mission-critical business functions, connectivity and applications, new research has revealed that a full 70% of cloud backup providers do not inform customers of where …

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…