A zero-day security flaw has been identified in the latest version of BackTrack Linux, a version used by security professionals for penetration testing. The vulnerability was discovered by a student in the InfoSec Institute’s ethical hacking class.

ISACA, the not-for-profit IT security association, has issued COBIT 5, the latest version of its IT security reference guide.

Research from by Altimeter Group, Bloor Research and Trend Micro shows that the ‘consumer marketing’ legacy of many smartphones makes them ill-equipped to meet enterprise security demands.

In a project that started from law enforcement agencies’ request to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was then farmed out to the US Navy, Obscure Technologies of California has been awarded a contract to find ways of hacking game cons…

More than half of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are most concerned about SQL injection attacks against their databases, according to a survey of 6,000 SMBs users of GreenSQL’s database security product.

Adobe has shipped updates for Reader and Acrobat that fix four security holes that could cause the application to crash and allow an attacker to take control of an affected system.

Anonymous claimed credit for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against a number of high-tech trade groups in retaliation for their support of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).

Google has released an update for Chrome that fixes a problem with the SSL certificate when users attempt to connect to sites over HTTPS.

Google has released an update for Chrome that fixes a problem with the SSL certificate when users attempt to connect to sites over HTTPS.

The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) is now admitting that social security numbers of up to 280,000 individuals were stolen from the Department of Technology Services server, a 10-fold increase from the original estimate.