The latest move by rightsholders in Portugal in the ongoing war against file sharers has backfired dramatically: the Portuguese Prosecutor has declared that P2P file-sharing for personal use is not illegal.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and ISACA have issued their Cloud Market Maturity report, outlining the top 10 issues with cloud adoption by businesses. They found that confidence is lowest in government regulation as a factor in driving or securing …

Indiana University and the US Navy have created an experimental Android spyware trojan that takes over a device’s camera to take photos and build a 3-D model of the mobile user’s surroundings. The information is then gathered and uploaded to a central …

Level 3 Communications has launched a new global security solutions portfolio meant to provide an integrated approach for enterprises, encompassing layered security services, Level 3’s communications networking and professional services. The solutions …

Microsoft will be fined for failing to comply with a 2009 ruling from the EU, which had objected to the way the company was using its dominant operating system position to the advantage of its own browser.

ICANN is in the process of renegotiating the basis of the WHOIS database. Last week it reported that it “and the registrars are much closer to reaching a negotiated position on Whois verification and data retention.” But now Europe has said you can’t d…

Are private Facebook messages from the years 2007–2009 showing up on people’s public Timelines? Users say yes, but Facebook says the rumors are false.

Adobe is planning to revoke an Adobe code signing certificate, after hackers broke into an internal server to compromise the digital certificate. This allows the attackers to create files that appear to be legitimately signed by the software maker, but…

Taken from our recent US Summer Virtual Conference, Theresa examines the current threat landscape

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has become the newest member of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance, a collaborative effort to address national cyber defense challenges – including the growing threat posed by cyber attacks against the US’ critical…