The latest monthly research from Kaspersky Lab claims to show that hackers are expanding their horizons in terms of the attack vehicles being used to insert malware onto users’ computers.

Still reeling from the PlayStation Network data breach, Sony has admitted to a second security breach that may have resulted in the theft of personal information of 24.6 million Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) customers.

Secunia has updated its free patch/update utility – Personal Software Inspector (PSI) – to v2.0, increasing the range of applications that are auto-updated to include web browser add-ins and a variety of other utilities.

After a quiet period since the takedown of the Rostock botnet servers at the start of the year, it looks like malicious spam is back on the increase again. According to Rodel Mendrez, a security researcher with M86 Security, whilst the industry had a d…

There is a lack of evidence to support the rhetoric of “cyber doom” employed by proponents of increased federal intervention in private sector cybersecurity, warns a new report by George Mason University (GMU) researchers.

Many organizations do not understand the increasing security risks posed by voice-over-IP (VoIP), warns Forrester analyst John Kindervag.

Many of the cyber agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) field offices do not have the training, skills, and support to investigate national security-related cyberattacks, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (IG) fou…

Sony has reiterated its statement that there is no evidence that credit card data was taken by hackers who forced the company to suspend its PlayStation Network in the wake of a security breach.

Research just published by HTK, a mobile messaging and interactive voice response services firm, claims to show that 90% of organisations surveyed have had problems with password resets. In addition, the firm says, 60% of organisations have no out-of-h…

The head virus researcher with Avast claims to have discovered a new Adobe PDF attack vector used by hackers. The attack vector, he reports, centres on the misuse of a filter normally used to encrypt text data for black and white images.