In-browser security specialist Trusteer is reporting that, a year after adding malware removal to its Rapport software, it has successfully removed banking trojans and similar malware from around 1.6 million users’ PCs.

Dasient Research claims that mobile apps running on the Android platform are as vulnerable to drive-by download security attacks as the software loaded onto desktop PCs.

With organizations off all stripes seeking to defend against advanced persistent threats (APTs), a team of researchers from iSEC Partners put the Mac OS X operating system head-to-head with Windows to see how each performs in the realm of enterprise se…

The world of security threats is changing, as the smartphone is now entering the frame as a vehicle for security attacks. That’s the underlying message from the latest Fortinet threat landscape report, which claims that a new Android botnet has been se…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a pilot program to test the security of the Apple iPad and iPhone for government use.

Webroot has extended its mobile security applications to its partners in banking in order to protect their customers who use tablets and smartphones to conduct mobile banking.

A leading security researcher claims that the volume – and profitability – of fake anti-virus software is now on the wane. But, he adds, there is still a lot of activity in the market, so users cannot breathe that easily just yet.

Following on from the hacking of the Sun newspaper’s website last month, in which false news stories were posted, it appears that thousands of customer’s details were downloaded during the hack.

A Computer Associates researcher has spotted a trojan for the Google Android platform that quietly records user’s phone calls for later possible cybercriminal usage.

F-Secure’s research team claim to have spotted a fake FlashPlayer.pkg installer for the Apple Mac. When executed, the ‘installer’ reveals itself to be a Bash/QHOst.WB trojan.