Google Chrome has been shown to have a major security flaw: any consumer who has ever typed in personal information while using the Google Chrome browser, be it for e-commerce or to sign up for newsletters, should be aware that this information is save…

Ah, the public hotspot: oases of connectivity in airports, coffee shops, bookstores, town centers and at chains that range from Starbucks to Barnes & Noble to McDonalds.

The retail sector often faces unique security challenges, not the least of which are the point of sale (PoS) terminals and cash registers that offer a convenient repository from which to lift credit and debit card numbers. Hackers can make use of conne…

The blue-chip list is a list of around 100 major firms and a few celebrities that employed four disgraced – and imprisoned – private investigators. The ‘scandal’ is that SOCA sat on the list without ever revealing its content, and possibly without adeq…

More and more software companies – including Google – have started to offer bug bounties to independent security researchers who find and responsibly disclose software flaws. Now Google will offer a bounty to OSS developers who also fix them.

vBulletin, one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) on the web and the engine behind many a discussion forum, is the target of a new exploit making its way into the wild.

SSL has long been used to provide security in communications; and Ivan Ristic, director of engineering at Qualys has long been an enthusiast. Last year, with the Trustworthy Internet Movement, he was instrumental in establishing SSL Pulse, “a continuou…

Reports emerged over the last few days that numerous big-name organizations such as WhatsApp, AVG, Alexa and Avira, had been hacked by the pro-Palestine group KDMS. In fact they had not been hacked, merely hijacked in a series of DNS redirection attack…

Just hours after the FBI arrested Dread Pirate Roberts, alleged operator of the Silk Road, the UK’s new NCA arrested four Brits on related drug charges. Two further arrests were made in the US, and two in Sweden.

The National Zoo’s Panda Cam, the World War II memorial, vast swaths of FEMA and food stamps are all casualties of the US government’s ongoing shutdown in the wake of Congress failing to approve funding for government operations. Cybersecurity isn’t es…