Art Coviello, executive vice president , EMC Corporation and executive chairman, RSA, opened RSA 2012 with a very clear message in his keynote: perimeter-based security strategies need to be replaced with intelligence-based strategies.

No slouches in spotting an opportunity, the bad guys have already focused on Rovio’s new Angry Birds spin-off, Bad Piggies. Be careful what you install – it might be a real pig.

Despite the Mac reputation as being more secure because of Apple’s tight control over its vertically integrated ecosystem, Mac-specific malware and advanced persistent attacks (APTs) against human rights groups is on the rise, cautions Citizen Lab Seni…

Apocalypse has come to World of Warcraft: whole cities have been massacred in the online adventure game, leaving nothing but smoking wreckage.

The 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime study is published today. It’s good news and bad news. The frequency of successful cyber attacks has more than doubled over the last three years, but the annual cost to organizations has slowed dramatically in the last two …

In a new twist to ‘rogueware’, Panda Security has warned that its cloud antivirus product name is being used to mask a particularly unpleasant trojan called DarkAngle. While victims may believe that they are installing anti-malware, they may actually b…

A weak digital certificate is defined as one signed with an RSA key of less than 1024 bits. Since it is now generally accepted that keys of a lesser length can be brute-forced with modern computing power, Microsoft is upping the ante by forcing a move …

American think tanks are becoming a big intelligence target for hackers from China and other countries, according to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the US House Intelligence Committee.

Android malware for premium SMS fraud continues to grow as a category, and most of it rests on the shoulders of one family of malware: Android.FakeInstaller. However, while FakeInstaller is well-known and included in mobile security software, hackers a…

Microsoft has bought the multi-factor authentication (MFA) company PhoneFactor. Financial terms of the deal have not been released. PhoneFactor will largely continue as is until its products are ‘onboarded’ into the Microsoft Volume Licensing programs….