Noted security researcher and hacker Moxie Marlinspike slammed the certificate authorities at last week’s Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, just before he introduced his own alternative for authenticating secure web communications.

A threat analyst with Trend Micro claims to have spotted a trojanised Android app in the wild that checks for keywords in text messages, and relays the data back to remote hackers.

After researching the growing problem of APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) – a security issue first discovered by StoneSoft late last year – Dell SecureWorks claims to have revealed around 60 different types of families of custom malware that use APTs…

A 10-year-old code cracker taking part in the first Defcon kids event over the weekend – part of the DefCon 19 event that has just taken place in Las Vegas – has reportedly discovered a zero-day flaw in the way the iOS and Android smartphone/tablet ope…

A US energy industry standards body has warned suppliers to improve their defences against cyber attacks.

Hacktivist group Anonymous and its offshoot LulzSec have published information stolen from rural US police departments in revenge for recent law enforcement actions.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has adopted the first privacy and security protections for customer data on smart grid electricity networks in the US.

In-browser security specialist Trusteer is reporting that, a year after adding malware removal to its Rapport software, it has successfully removed banking trojans and similar malware from around 1.6 million users’ PCs.

Dasient Research claims that mobile apps running on the Android platform are as vulnerable to drive-by download security attacks as the software loaded onto desktop PCs.

With organizations off all stripes seeking to defend against advanced persistent threats (APTs), a team of researchers from iSEC Partners put the Mac OS X operating system head-to-head with Windows to see how each performs in the realm of enterprise se…