On Friday 8 June, Redwood City-based Qualys Inc filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common stock.

The PCI Standards Security Council will require merchants to show proof of passing an internal vulnerability assessment beginning June 30, noted Alex Quilter, director of PCI at Qualys.

The exploding mobility trend will continue to advance only as long as people who use the devices feel they can be trusted. That was the focus of Mobiquity CEO Scott Snyder’s opening keynote at this week’s AT&T Cyber Security Conference in New York.

In an effort to break the cybersecurity logjam in the US Senate, two senators have proposed a compromise draft bill that they hope will be acceptable to both Democrats and Republicans.

Music website Last.fm joins the growing list of websites that have had their customers’ passwords exposed on the internet this week.

Over the next few years, health records in the UK will become largely digital. Andrew Lansley’s new NHS Information Strategy offers both huge benefits and serious dangers for the future of the NHS/patient relationship.

Freshshop, the site set up and run by Jay Moore (aka t0pp8uzz) was a one-stop card fraud shop. Now Moore and his money-mule helper and co-conspirator Damian Horne (aka GM) have been jailed following an investigation by the UK Serious Organized Crime Ag…

Online dating site eHarmony joins LinkedIn as the latest social networking site to be hacked, admitting to a breach that may have exposed 1.5 million user passwords.

Bowing to pressure from users of the CS5 versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe has issued free security patches to plug critical flaws in the software that could enable an attack to take control of a vulnerable system.

While the in-depth analysis of Flame continues, and we learn more and more about its intricacies and capabilities, one question remains: why did the AV industry fail to spot it earlier?