Lumension announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of CoreTrace IP, suggesting that it was prompted by growing concerns over APTs and increasing interest in whitelist defenses.

New malware, backdoor.ADDNEW, has been identified. It is based on the Russian DaRK DDoSer malware and has a surprising link with the Gh0st RAT trojan.

NullCrew remembered the 5th of November by breaking into mod.co.uk and stealing and dumping more than 3400 email addresses and passwords. While the date of the breach cannot be verified, it does look as if it happened on the Guy Fawkes anniversary.

Public sector organizations in the UK are leaking money thanks to a full £2 million in fines that councils, the NHS, police forces and others have seen in response to poor data handling.

Apple has released a new iOS, version 6.0.2, that addresses a handful of vulnerabilities in the system affecting iPhone 3GS and later, the iPod touch fourth generation and later, and the iPad 2 and later devices.

Announcing its Project Hellfire back in August, hacking group Team GhostShell warned, “Two more projects are still scheduled for this fall and winter. It’s only the beginning.” Now it introduces Project BlackStar with an initial leak of 2.5 million rec…

Security professional organization ASIS International has released a new edition of its Protection of Assets (POA) reference series, to dovetail with its 35h certification program anniversary and a stepped-up focus on global collaboration.

In a testament to the ever-changing nature of state-sponsored cyber-espionage, the governmental Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of the Republic of Georgia has published a breakdown of the so-called “Georbot Botnet,” a campaign carried out again…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned about US government claims that a Megaupload user lost his property rights by using cloud storage has implications for all data stored by any user or company with any cloud provider, including Amazon’…

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) guidance report as part of its Security as a Service (SecaaS) Implementation Guidance.