SQL injection will take a new turn later this month at Black Hat Europe, when a security researcher shows how to take control of a database server using the technique.

Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are underestimating the security danger posed by their employees, especially in light of the current recession, according to network security software developer, GFI.

TelTech has launched what appears to be the industry’s first pay-as-you-use telephone voice analysis (lie detection) service.

In a response to a BBC investigation into the leaking of payment card data from Indian call centres, Symantec’s Indian operation has admitted that card data on three of its customers may have been leaked from its call centre contractor in India.

Bugs, browsers, bureaucracy, backtracks and busts.

If you’re an IT security professional with a long memory, you’ll recall a BBC TV demonstration of the Van Eck phenomenon – the process of eavesdropping on a CRT monitor at a distance of several metres using low-cost electronics in the mid-1980s followi…

The follow-up to the Grey Goose cyberwar document has more closely linked Russia to the cyberwar against Georgia. The Kremlin’s FSB tried to cloak its operations by mimicking the activities of loosely-connected criminal group the Russian Business Netwo…

The act of ATM Card skimming and shoulder surfing – used by criminals the world over to create cloned cards from users of bank cash machines – has entered a new dimension.

A mixture of private sector and congressional witnesses slammed the US for a lack of cohesion in its cyber security stance this week, calling for better leadership in the defense of the country’s “cyber turf”.

The security rating of cloud computing has taken a battering with news that users of Google’s online word processing service – Google Docs – may have shared their data with unauthorised users.