The British Standards Institution (BSI) has recently updated its standards for information security auditing, BSI officials told Infosecurity.

The UK government’s plans to allow security and police services to spy on e-mails, phone calls and internet browsing habits are dangerous, according to World Wide Web inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Trusteer has discovered spyware being sold in underground forums for $280. It targets hospitality PoS applications.

Google is warning around 20,000 webmasters that their sites may be compromised and are carrying out “weird redirects” to malicious sites.

New statistics show that while many companies appear to understand the business threat from BYOD, many others are taking no precautions whatsoever.

In a move designed to offer genuine hands-on security experience to EMEA’s different security initiatives, professional body (ISC)² has launched a new Advisory Board for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EAB).

Spammers have their sites on Verizon Wireless customers after targeting those of AT&T Wireless earlier this month.

Darkmegi, malware that uses a kernel rootkit component to infect computers, has begun exploiting a flaw in Java to conduct drive-by attacks, according to McAfee Labs.

Khosrow Zarefarid found and reported a flaw in the Iranian POS system. He reported it, but was ignored – so he used it and hacked 3 million Iranian debit card details.

In a move that will be monitored by the UK’s music industry association (BPI), its Dutch equivalent BREIN (translates as ‘Brain’) has obtained a court injunction forcing the political party, the Pirate Party, to take down the proxy site that was allowi…