The UK was one of the top ten countries in the world exposed to APT attacks in 2013, when measured by number of unique verticals targeted. With 12 unique verticals hit, the UK was tied for fourth with France and Thailand.

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has appointed Jamie Saunders as the new director of its National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU).

Organisations can use security to drive the business forward,an Infosecurity Europe keynote panel says.

This past weekend, the University of Central Florida defeated nine other finalist teams to win the 2014 Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC), held in San Antonio, Texas. The largest collegiate cybersecurity competition in the …

HP has announced a new consulting services practice, named HP Security Metrics Services, an initiative to provide data that can deepen executive-level security engagement by demonstrating how specific security risks directly imperil business objectives.

Sohu.com, China’s eighth-largest website and currently the 27th most-visited website in the world, was the unwitting originator of a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack earlier in the month, which was carried out using traffic hijacking…

Google has incorporated a new TLS cipher suite in Chrome that operates three times faster than AES-GCM on devices that don’t have AES hardware acceleration, including most Android phones, wearable devices such as Google Glass and older computers. This …

Is your smartphone running low on battery for seemingly no reason? Are things taking longer to render or load? Your gadget could be secretly mining bitcoins, thanks to a piece of mobile malware in Google Play that quietly uses an Android phone’s proces…

Identity intelligence specialist GBGroup (GBG) is acquiring DecTech Solutions, an Australian provider of fraud detection, risk management and customer on-boarding solutions, for $34.4 million. Together they plan to deliver a joint identity and fraud so…

The consumerization of IT and the bring-your-own-device phenomenon in the enterprise has given rise to concerns over data security stemming from risky mobile applications and unsecured devices. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIS…