Integrity and honesty top the list of skills needed for the current and future federal cybersecurity workforce, according to an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) survey.

Research just published claims that end-of-life IT assets – especially portable devices like smartphones and laptops – pose a serious data security threat to many firms.

A new pharma spam campaign uses the Google brand. More than 250 similar blog-related campaigns have been tracked in the last two days.

The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office announced that personal information of 3,655 patients at the Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) was placed onto a publicly available website.

Application whitelisting technology is hardly a novel concept – in fact, the technology has been available to enterprises for some years now. But, as GlobalSCAPE executives told Infosecurity at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, application w…

Visitors to two websites operated by the BBC were injected by malicious code earlier this week, opening up users to attacks by hackers, claims Websense.

Lumension has released a beta version of its free Application Scanner v2.0 that scans executable files and identifies all applications within the endpoint environment, along with its Endpoint Intelligence Center (EIC) that consolidates malware, vulnera…

Having spoken on the ‘Public, meet private: Lessons learned in chasing cyber crooks’ panel at the RSA 2011 conference in San Francisco, Pedro Bustamante, senior research analyst at Panda Security, tells Infosecurity’s Eleanor Dallaway why geography is …

User education is often touted as a cornerstone of any effective IT security program. But as Jack Daniel, community development manager with internet security firm Astaro contends, not every organization will reap benefits from educating its end-users.

While nation-states actively attempt to exploit the networks of the US government, critical infrastructure, and commercial networks, US Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn told the RSA Conference audience that terrorist groups are inevitably more …