BeyondTrust, a company that provides privilege delegation and authorization systems with its PowerBroker suite of products, has acquired eEye Digital Security, developer of the Blink and Retina vulnerability management tools.

Security professionals are experiencing an information overload and want better metrics to analyze the data so they can take action, according to a survey conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of RedSeal Networks.

Kansas State University (KSU) has received a five-year, $1 million US Air Force (USAF) contract to study “moving target” defense for networks.

Yesterday we reported that 55,000 Twitter accounts have been leaked on Pastebin. Security researchers Anders Nilsson and Robin Wood have separately analyzed the dump.

The net neutrality provisions approved by the Dutch Parliament last June as part of its implementation of the European telecommunications package became law yesterday.

A spear-phishing campaign aimed at US natural gas pipeline companies has been underway since December of last year, according to the US Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).

There have been several recent examples of Syrian activists being tricked into downloading and installing remote access tools (RATs) that secretly hand control of their computers to a third party.

Apple exposed encryption passwords of FileVault users in its Lion OS X 10.7 security update, says researcher.

South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has teamed with Australia’s Internet Industry Association to develop a new voluntary industry code of practice to improve cybersecurity for end users.

Almost one-in-four computers in the UK is infected – and the UK is one of the least infected countries in the world, says the new PandaLabs report released today.