Companies that experience a major data breach lose on average 12% of their brand’s value, according to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Experian Data Breach Resolution.

A Novato, Calif., woman thought she was doing the right thing by picking up an apparently lost iPhone 4 in her shopping cart, taking it to her son’s home and calling the phone’s owner to tell her she could collect the handset.

Security researcher Brian Krebs has detailed an interesting analysis of how an APT attack ended up with Chinese hackers effectively running amok on a hedge fund’s IT resource – and how the company dealt with the problem.

Hackers, perhaps from China, interfered with two US government satellites during 2007 and 2008 by penetrating a ground station in Norway, according to a report being issued by a congressional commission next month.

ESET’s senior research fellow David Harley says that, while his team of researchers have been tracking the TDL4 botnet for some time, they have noticed a new phase in its evolution.

Andrew Brandt, The newly-installed director of threat research with Solera Networks, has been analyzing what appears to be a hybrid spear phishing attack against a colleague and revealed the effort that goes into making these targeted attack emails loo…

At the RSA Europe event earlier this month, Infosecurity got a chance to catch up with Paul Simmonds, a board member of the Jericho Forum.

Research just released by (ISC)² claims to show that application vulnerability was ranked as the number one threat by more than 72% of IT security professionals.

Responding to Symantec – and McAfee’s – reports last week about the ‘Son of Stuxnet’ worm appearing and harvesting information from industrial control systems, Venafi says the Duqu malware is definitely a major security threat.

At the Hacker Halted conference in Miami, Florida, McAfee research architect, Barnaby Jack, demonstrated how to hack into an insulin pump live in his presentation titled ‘Life threatening vulnerabilities’.