Despite 45 teams trying for up to two hours at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it seems that the latest USB drive-equipped Swiss Army Knife – which sports an encrypted (Elliptical Curve and AES) data storage feature – was uncracked.

Following on from Germany’s internet security agency publicly slamming Internet Explorer over the weekend and advising internet users to switch to another browser, France’s CERTA agency has made a similar pronouncement.

Evidence of further targeted attacks are surfacing, just days after Google and other technology companies announced that they had been the victims of a concerted campaign. This time, the attacks targeted PDFs of those in the US defense community, and o…

The Internet Explorer exploit code used in the Operation Aurora attack against Google and other technology companies has made it into the public domain, and has been incorporated into the Metasploit penetration testing tool, it was revealed this weekend.

The internal security risk issue is fast becoming a boardroom topic in most organizations, especially now that relatively rare road warriors have given way to a truly mobile workforce, able to work from almost anywhere, in most businesses.

The Conservative party has published a green paper which, amongst other items of national security, seeks to create a center to deal with cyberattacks against the UK.

Time Inc has written to customers and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office, warning of a potential security breach following the possible misuse of customer credit card information by an employee.

Blackhats and whitehats reacted with typical polarity to the disastrous Haiti earthquake this week. One faction unleashed a torrent of malware capitalizing on the tragedy, while the other organized a series of ‘hackathons’ to help develop technologies …

Proving that there is no situation too tragic to exploit, cyber scofflaws have been quick to capitalize on the world’s interest in the recent earthquake in Haiti. With so many people looking to reach out and donate to victims of the tragedy, one group …

A complex attack on the Google Gmail accounts of human rights activitists – apparently from hackers based in China – has now been indirectly blamed on Microsoft, after McAfee Labs announced last night that the attacks appear to exploit a little-known v…