The ZeroAccess botnet, the bandwidth-intensive bug that is known as the most pervasive bot around the world, has had some of the wind knocked out of it. Security firm Symantec has executed a sinkholing operation that took down more than half a million …

An IE zero-day vulnerability only made public knowledge by Microsoft two weeks ago has already been used by multiple APT threat actors, including Deputy Dog, Taidoor, th3bug, and Web2Crew.

Crowdsourcing is being used for everything from start-up funding to news reporting, and it makes sense that the idea would make it to the security community. Rapid7 has kicked off Project Sonar, a collaborative effort to improve security through the ac…

The latest Edward Snowden leaks show that the NSA not merely collects metadata (everything about a communication excluding the content) from Americans and non-Americans alike, it generates automatic graphical analyses from that data.

“You deter people by having an offensive capability. We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us,” said UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.

In March this year, anti-spam website Spamhaus suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 300 gigabits per second, the largest ever recorded and sufficient to disrupt the internet itself in some parts of Europe.

Scott Borg, the man who foresaw a Stuxnet-style cyber-attack years before it was discovered, has issued his latest prediction: manipulation of financial markets will be the long-term cybercrime wave of the future.

Intermedia, a US provider of cloud-based business applications, has acquired SaaSID, a UK start-up that provides SSO across all cloud services from any device.

It is no longer enough to say that business comprises those who have adopted cloud technology and those who will adopt cloud technology. New research from NTT Com Security (erstwhile Integralis) describes five separate personas in attitude to cloud; al…

From cloud-powered denial-of-service attacks and Big Data vulnerabilities to bio-hacks that defeat authentication systems like fingerprint recognition, we are on the cusp of a brave new world of cyber-attack exploits, Europol warns.