Seattle-based WatchGuard Technologies – the unified threat management (USM) security vendor – has announced plans to buy privately-held BorderWare Technology, which employs around 90 staff, for an undisclosed sum.

Despite 30% of IT security companies increasing their investments in IT this year, fewer than half have a shared understanding of IT value across the enterprise and two-thirds fail to fully measure it, according to ISACA.

Researchers have been busy over the last few days tracing where the Zeus botnet is being controlled from, following investigations by the University of Alabama in the US, which tracked down the Zeus Bot virus to a raft of fake internet postcards circul…

Arbor Networks has published internet bandwidth usage figures from June and July that make fascinating reading if you ever wondered how less democratic governments such as Iran filters and blocks internet traffic for their citizens.

It now seems that the hacking of the servers of the SquirrelMail open-source email project in late June may have been worse than originally reported.

Clever hackers are exploiting a number of loopholes in US credit reporting systems to substantially improve their credit rating and so gain access to zero percent loans and low-cost credit cards, an information security researcher said over the weekend.

Cybercrime is at the top of the Information Security Forum’s (ISF) Threat Horizon list for 2011, which highlights the growth of `crimeware as a service’ offered by criminal gangs, along with infiltration into organisations to carry out insider attacks.

At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers have revealed how the security of San Francisco’s plans to become a showcase for the US on computerised parking has been compromised.

This morning, 30 July, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Robert Lentz, Senior Information Assurance Official for the Department of Defense, declared the need for two extra cyber-czar roles: one for identity, and one for information security tra…

At the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 29 July 2009, one conference session addressed the changing nature of the information security trade press. A panel of experienced journalists answered questions on the relationship between trade and mainstream …