The Canadian government is vulnerable to a security breach similar to the US government’s WikiLeaks snafu that resulted in the leak of hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents, concluded an internal government report.

Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion has not gone down well in some quarters, with some experts questioning the wisdom of allowing the Redmond giant access to such a massive unified communications service.

The Jericho Forum has taken the wraps off a set of best practice identity principles – enshrined in a set of commandments – which seek to lay down the ground rules for IT security professionals when dealing with the complex world of digital identities.

The Jericho Forum has taken the wraps off a set of best practice identity principles – enshrined in a set of commandments – which seek to lay down the ground rules for IT security professionals when dealing with the complex world of digital identities.

The reputation of the apparent cybercriminal’s playground that is Facebook took another battering this week after a Symantec researcher revealed that as many as 100,000 Facebook applications are leaking data to third parties.

Many organizations are not equipped to prevent and respond to web infrastructure failures caused by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and Domain Name System (DNS) failures, according to research commissioned by VeriSign.

A researcher at the Context Information Security consulting firm has identified a number of serious vulnerabilities in the new WebGL 3D graphics standard enabled by default in Firefox 4 and Google Chrome browsers, and as an option in the Apple Safari b…

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is looking to expand its authority to protect the electrical grid against cyber attacks.

In a move that has caused raised eyebrows in the smartphone industry, Sony Ericsson has posted detailed information on how to hack its Xperia range of Android smartphones.

TalkTalk, a third-party telco and broadband supplier, has launched the UK’s first ISP-level broadband security service.