Cue the Mission Impossible theme: Europeans (especially the French) really like the idea of biometrics – ultraviolet fingerprint authentication, vein topography scans and the like – when it comes to slipping into secure corridors and preventing interna…

Konami Digital Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it had experienced 35,252 unauthorized logins (out of 3,945,927 attempts). This occurred within days of a similar experience at Nintendo.

Trusted and popular cloud services Dropbox and Wordpress are being incorporated into sophisticated, targeted APT-style attacks by the same Chinese group thought to be behind the New York Times compromise late last year.

The Canada-based ID management specialist has unveiled a new release for its ID Management Suite, with additional features. The firm has also inked a deal with one of Europe’s leading telecommunications providers.

Morningstar Inc, an investment research firm, has disclosed a breach that compromised 2300 credit card details and possibly 182,000 user names and passwords; but the company has provided little additional information.

Authentication lies at the heart of security — ensuring that only authorized users can access relevant data is the basis of keeping data safe and companies compliant. This is the role of identity and access management (IAM) systems. But in recent year…

The March 20 cyber-attack on South Korean financial services and media firms, known as Dark Seoul, was thought to be significant not only for the high-profile nature of the targets but also for the use of a Master Boot Record (MBR) wiping functionality…

Microsoft will issue seven security bulletins in this month’s Patch Tuesday tomorrow. Six are marked critical and one is marked important, heralding a busy period for both desktop and server admins.

A stealth start-up founded last year has discovered and described a vulnerability that it claims affects 99% of all Android devices – in fact every device sold since Android 1.6 (Donut); that is, nearly 900 million devices.

By a vote of 541 to 91, with 9 abstentions, EC proposals for a directive on stiffer penalties across Europe for cybercriminals have been adopted by the European Parliament. Denmark has chosen to opt out of the directive, preferring to maintain its own …