The Information Security Forum (ISF) has published a major update on its Standard of Good Practice for IT security professionals, which is billed as the industry’s most business-focused, all-in-one guide to information security assurance.

Russian password recovery specialist has enhanced its Phone Password Breaker software to crack encrypted media cards for the BlackBerry smartphone. The password recovery specialist claims the software’s password recovery rate on the BlackBerry is in th…

Personal information of more than 16,000 patients at two health facilities in the Minneapolis area have been compromised as the result of a stolen laptop, the facilities admitted this week.

A cybercriminal organization is creating a superbotnet by sending out billions of malware-laden emails for an unknown purpose, according to Commtouch researcher Avi Turiel.

A cybercriminal organization is creating a superbotnet by sending out billions of malware-laden emails for an unknown purpose, according to Commtouch researcher Avi Turiel.

Reports are coming in that the MySQL.com site was hacked and booby-trapped to serve up malware earlier this week – unconfirmed reports from security researcher Brian Krebs suggest that hacked access to the site was sold by cybercriminals for $3,000.

Around two million Massachusetts citizens, one out of every three state residents, had personal information compromised through data theft or loss since the beginning of 2010, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley.

The Dutch government is revoking the DigiNotar’s subordinate certificate authorities (CAs) under the Staat der Nederlanden root certificates.

The breach of websites hosted by Go Daddy was likely the result of a phishing attack, said Nicholas Percoco, head of Trustwave SpiderLabs.

As reported elsewhere over the weekend, a 23-year-old Arizona man was arrested late last week in connection with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in May and was, according to security researcher Brian Krebs, a model student who saw himself one d…