ISACA has announced that its Information Security and Risk Management Conference – which takes place in Barcelona on November 14 to 16 – will feature cloud computing and PCI DSS guidance at its heart.

The fallout from the hack of the DigiNotar certificate authority in the Netherlands means that SSL certificates can no longer be trusted, says Mark Knight, director of product management with Thales e-Security.

Companies should fix known access vulnerabilities in order to prevent disgruntled former employees from wreaking havoc on their systems, advises Adam Bosnian with Cyber-Ark Software.

Belgian web certificate authority (CA) GlobalSign is back online after investigating claims by the hacker who breached the Dutch DigiNotar CA that its systems had also been breached.

Vacationland Vendors, a Wisconsin-based supplier of arcade equipment and vending machines, said credit and debits cards used in its card processing system over a two and a half year period may have been exposed.

The Russian embassy in London has complained that its website mysteriously crashed over the weekend, after being hit by a DDoS attack. The site downing reportedly coincided with Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to Moscow.

An associate professor in the computer science department of the University of California has developed a proof-of-concept app that uses the smartphone/tablet’s on-device accelerometer/gyroscope technology to interpret – and record – users’ keystrokes.

The number of botnets running on compromised devices increased in the first half of 2011, despite the recent takedown of a number of high-profile botnets, according to Damballa’s first half 2011 Advanced Threat Report.

Malware for smartphones and tablets is up 273% in the first half of 2011, compared with the same period in 2010, a study from G Data has shown.

Tomer Bitton, a reverse engineering specialist with Imperva, has successfully dissected the operation of the Morto worm, a malware executable that is notable for being the only worm seen to date that exploits Microsoft’s remote desktop protocol (RDP).