At the Hacker Halted conference in Miami, Florida, McAfee research architect, Barnaby Jack, demonstrated how to hack into an insulin pump live in his presentation titled ‘Life threatening vulnerabilities’.

Old bugs, it seems, do not die – nor do they fade away – as Dennis Fisher, editor of Kaspersky Lab’s ThreatPost newswire says that there is a new worm in the wild that is compromising servers running older versions of the JBoss Application Server and t…

Anonymous does not need sophisticated tools like Stuxnet or Duqu to carry out its threat to attack industrial control systems that regulate critical infrastructure, warned Dominic Storey with Sourcefire.

Hackers who infiltrated Nasdaq’s computer systems last year were able to eavesdrop on communications of company directors, according to people familiar with the investigation.

AVG’s free anti-virus is one of the most popular free IT security applications in the market, but according to one security researcher, its success has meant a surge in the number of fake download sites charging a subscription for the service.

The widely publicized data breach revealed by RSA back in March may not have been the only one to hit a major company, a leading security researcher has said.

At the IP Expo event in London this week, senior managers with Symantec were out in force, explaining to show visitors why communications and security technologies are now closely integrated. Alongside sponsoring a security theater at the show, the IT …

Researchers at Georgia Tech have built on the smartphone accelerometer analysis carried out by iSuppli back in 2009 and successfully used an iPhone 4 to measure vibrations from a nearby computer keyboard, allowing them to map which keys are being press…

At the London IP Expo event yesterday, Infosecurity got a chance to catch up with Caroline Ikomi, technical director with Check Point, where she brought us up to speed on how the firm is adapting to a cloud-based IT landscape.

Nemours, a children’s healthcare system serving the Eastern US, has admitted that three unencrypted backup tapes containing personal information on 1.6 million patients and employees have been lost.