That information security is really an aspect of organizational risk management is well known in theory, but is now being mirrored in practice. New research demonstrates that CSOs are increasingly adopting a risk-based rather than tick-box approach to …

Skype is running into a contretemps, as it were, with the French telecom authority over lawful intercept regulations, with some executives possibly facing criminal charges for non-compliance.

President Barack Obama is shining yet another light on the rising cybersecurity threat in the US, sitting down with more than a dozen CEOs inside the White House Situation Room to discuss how government and the private sector can work together to bette…

A range of political and celebrity targets have been made victims of a cyber-attack known as “doxxing”, by perpetrators using a Russian website.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has admitted that its been an ongoing target for hackers, although the nation’s central bank says no data has been lost as a result of the attacks.

In what is believed to be an industry first, Tennessee-based footwear and sports apparel retail chain Genesco is suing Visa over a $13 million dollar fine imposed following a data breach in 2010.

Enter Kali Linux
“So, what’s the difference between BackTrack and Kali?” you might be asking. Unfortunately for us, that’s not a simple question to answer. It’s a mix between “everything” and “not much&rd…

Kali Linux, the rising
It’s been 7 years since we released our first version of BackTrack Linux, and the ride so far has been exhilarating. When the dev team started talking about BackTrack 6 (almost a year ago), each of us put on paper a few &ld…

A new vulnerability, CVE-2013-0108, has been discovered in Honeywell industrial control systems (ICS), continuing the growing trend of SCADA and building control issues.

After a fourth quarter of declining spam levels in 2012, junk emails actually almost doubled in February 2013.