The European Commission has proposed a new directive on attacks against information systems to replace current, outdated frameworks.

Stuxnet, the computer worm considered to be the world’s first cyber weapon, has hit millions of computers in China.

Adobe plans to release updates on October 5 for Adobe Reader 9.3.4 for Windows, Mac and UNIX, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.4 for Windows and Mac, and Adobe Reader 8.2.4 and Acrobat 8.2.4 for Windows and Mac to resolve critical security issues.

In the days of dial-up modems, malware authors developed trojans and other black code that dialled premium rate numbers in the background and so generating revenues for their criminal gangs. Today, thanks to the arrival of landline broadband, the proce…

Barclays Bank plans to rewrite its software applications so they can communicate with one another using encryption to lessen the likelihood of fraudsters finding a way into its systems

The German government’s new national ID card – which will start being issued this November – has been publicly hacked on TV by members of the infamous Chaos Computer Club.

Tomorrow is the day that the new PCI DSS 1.2 rules kick in, requiring all level one merchants – defined as firms processing more than 6 million transactions per year – to adhere to the v1.2 security guidelines, or face possible action by their card pro…

Hard on the heels of the spate of Twitter attacks comes news that LinkedIn members are being targeted by carefully crafted fake connection requests that route users to the ZeuS data-downloading malware.

Virtualisation is the key to better information security in cloud computing, says Eric Baize, a board member at cross-industry security initiative, SAFECode.

A number of insurance agents have recently been fined by states for not having a written information security plan in place, and some large insurance firms have reported data breaches involving clients’ personal information. To help address this proble…