The Flashback trojan, which infected more Macs than any other malware in history, used hacked WordPress sites to get onto machines, according to Kaspersky Lab researcher Vicente Diaz.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced this week that an employee stole personal data on 228,000 Medicaid recipients.

“The EU-US Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreement was adopted with 409 votes in favour, 226 against and 33 abstentions,” announced the EU yesterday. Opponents included “rapporteur Sophie in’T Veld, who withdrew her name from the report.”

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has recently updated its standards for information security auditing, BSI officials told Infosecurity.

The UK government’s plans to allow security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet browsing habits are dangerous, according to World Wide Web inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Trusteer has discovered spyware being sold in underground forums for $280. It targets hospitality PoS applications.

Google is warning around 20,000 webmasters that their sites may be compromised and are carrying out “weird redirects” to malicious sites.

New statistics show that while many companies appear to understand the business threat from BYOD, many others are taking no precautions whatsoever.

In a move designed to offer genuine hands-on security experience to EMEA’s different security initiatives, professional body (ISC)² has launched a new Advisory Board for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EAB).

Spammers have their sites on Verizon Wireless customers after targeting those of AT&T Wireless earlier this month.