With the growth in the popularity of virtualization comes attendant security risks, noted a recent white paper from the global IT association ISACA.

Russia has finally buried the US…in spam. Russia topped the list of sources of global spam, with the US a distant 18th, according to Kaspersky Labs’ October spam report.

An IT security researcher claims to have uncovered a sophisticated mass injection attack that uses a polymorphic obfuscation attack vector, and has been used to target WordPress blogs at a US-based hosting provider.

Despite a lot of discussion in the media, it seems that only 10% of security organisations in Europe and North America are planning to implement network access control (NAC) technology in the next 12 months.

US and UK authorities are tightening their control of the internet in their fight against copyright pirates and counterfeiters. But their moves may reverse the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty, and open the way to censorship of on…

The hacker who took down the WikiLeaks site just hours before it was set to publish leaked US documents used a relatively small-scale, application-level distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Arbor …

Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has confirmed that the Stuxnet computer worm affected centrifuges in the country’s uranium enrichment program.

IBM has launched an apprenticeship scheme for 15 school leavers in a bid to develop its current and future workforce.

A G20 country will be hit by major cyber attack by 2015, Garter predicts.

UK-based defense firm BAE Systems has agreed to acquire stratsec.net, an Australian cybersecurity consulting firm, for around $23 million.