French web-hosting company OVH has admitted that it was hacked when the internal network at its offices in Roubaix was compromised. Customers in Europe and North America are affected.

As enterprises increasingly rely on cloud service providers and other third-party vendors to provide fundamental services, the related security risk becomes more significant. Global IT association ISACA has released a new guide applying the COBIT 5 bus…

The companies on the London Stock Exchange pose a serious risk to the UK’s national security, according to KPMG, which found that all FTSE 350 firms are leaking data that can be used by a range of cyber attackers, including state-sponsored cyber-spies.

One week ago the ACLU revealed widespread US police license plate monitoring and complained of too few rules to prevent abuse. Yesterday the ICO used the UK’s data protection law to tell UK police to stop doing similar.

In keeping with our tradition of publishing new releases during the annual Black Hat and DEF CON conferences, we are pleased to announce the availability of Kali Linux 1.0.4. The last few months since the initial release of Kali have seen a large numbe…

One would have to be living under a rock, or using two cans and a piece of string to communicate, not to be aware that mobile and WiFi security threats are escalating as wireless networking penetration rises. The latest numbers reveal that in the secon…

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a revision to the digital signature standard used to ensure the integrity of electronic documents, as well as the identity of the signer.

The University of Oxford is poised to broaden its cybersecurity education offerings, with advanced degree training beginning this autumn.

A new professional-grade banking trojan is stepping into the cybercrime vacuum left by Zeus and Citadel – and looks to be as effective as those notorious kings of crimeware have been at draining people’s bank accounts.

Hacker conferences, like Black Hat and DEFCON, are notorious for highlighting the security missteps of attendees. Before the show, which takes place in Las Vegas next week, IT security professionals should take every security precaution to prevent bein…