The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first set of guidelines for managing security and privacy issues in the public cloud.

More than half of organizations expect to increase their information security spending in 2012, some by 8% of more, according to a survey by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

Viruses infect executables. Worms are executables. So viruses can, and are, infecting worms. The result, claims anti-virus company BitDefender, is a new category of threat: Frankenmalware.

The Open Digital Policy Organization reports that the Norwegian Data Inspectorate has effectively declared use of Google Apps in Norway to be illegal.

Two New York power companies, which have 1.8 million customers, have disclosed that customers’ personal information, including social security numbers, dates of birth, and financial account data, may have been compromised by third-party unauthorized ac…

The MegaUpload take-down is one of the hottest stories on the net, involving the FBI, illegal file-sharing, hackers’ revenge, the specter of SOPA and more. But don’t be too curious…

CyberSource, a payment management company working in e-commerce and providing a fraud management system to e-commerce merchants, has published its latest report: UK Online Fraud Report 2012.

Facebook scammers are offering a “free” $500 Amazon.com gift card as part of a premium rate mobile phone service and affiliate marketing site scheme.

Last September, Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs took down the Kelihos botnet. While Kaspersky now has control of the botnet, in a court filing in Virginia, Microsoft yesterday named Andrey Sabelnikov as the owner and operator of Kelihos.

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has released a secure version of Google’s Android platform, dubbed secure enhanced (SE) Android, which is based on an application-level permissions model.