Australia’s central bank is seeking help from information security providers to beef up its protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

Adobe has announced the release of a beta version of a Protected Mode (sandboxed) Flash Player for Firefox running on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Rootkits are on the rise and traditional security software will not protect you, warns a Symantec white paper.

In response to Android’s growing reputation of being a “malware cesspool”, Google has unveiled the Bouncer automated application scanning service to root out malware on the Android Market.

The Anonymous hacktivist group was apparently able to listen in on a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard by hacking into a participant’s email account and obtaining the conference call number and access code, according to security analyst…

Hackers target the most widely used file formats; and there is none more widely used than PDF. A new paper from Adobe discusses the problems and solutions to PDF security.

The total number of patient records compromised in the US increased by 97% in 2011 compared with 2010, according to a report released this week by the Redspin consulting firm.

Academics Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund from Ruhr University Bochum have reverse-engineered and cracked the GMR-1 and GMR-2 voice ciphers used by many satellite networks.

Apple has released massive security updates for its Lion and Snow Leopard Mac operating systems, fixing 52 vulnerabilities.

The top G-man is warning Congress that hackers will pose a greater danger to US national security than terrorists in the not-too-distant future.