Two local Washington DC media outlets – WTOP and sister station Federal News Radio, and the Dvorak Uncensored pundit blog – all became the victims of bad actors looking to make a buck with scareware earlier this week. The stunt is indicative of a risin…

AutoIT, a flexible coding language that’s been used since 1999 for scripting in Windows, is on the rise as a go-to development language for malware.

US soldiers will soon be able to get their Android on…sort of. The US Department of Defense has approved the use of Samsung’s hardened, secure version of Android in smartphones used by the military, along with BlackBerry 10 devices.

“If Google can fall victim to an ICS attack, anyone can,” say researchers after taking over the building control system of Google’s Sydney, Australia offices.

The watering hole campaign that targeted a US Department of Labor website was the result of a brand-new zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 8 (CVE-2013-1347), and not a patched, known quantity as originally thought.

Consumers often look to protect their assets in the event of computer theft, loss or an “incident” that wipes out files and requires a complete restoration.

Spies like us? Apparently so, as in, they’re just as vulnerable to Chinese hackers as anyone else. One of the top espionage and military contractors for the US, QinetiQ North America, has been successfully compromised and its information siphoned off, …

When it comes to malware, the spawning rate of new threats does not appear to be slowing down at all: In the first quarter of 2013 alone, more than six and a half million new malware samples were created, according to Panda Security’s latest malware re…

The consumerization of computing has changed the IT landscape. Employees can and do now access corporate data from a multitude of devices in a multitude of locations. Where the ‘insider threat’ was once posed only by the occasional malcontent employee,…

Drew Amorosi, deputy editor of Infosecurity, interviews ForeScout’s Scott Gordon at last week’s Infosecurity Europe 2013 show in London.