The Information Security Forum (ISF) has published a new report on Federated Identity and Access Management that describes the methodology that IT security professionals need to adopt when implementing the technology into their systems.

Do you want the good news, or the bad news first? The bad news is that one-click fraud has, at long last, arrived on smartphones. The good news (unless you live in Japan) is that the frauds are focused on Japanese language users of mobile phones.

The long-held belief that the Apple iOS platform is inherently secure due to Apple’s walled garden approach to software has been holed once again, this time by a security firm that has developed a method of sending Fake iTunes and Flash updates to iPho…

Websense has slammed the latest ad campaign from Motorola for its Droid Razr smartphone, citing the fact that the Android platform is secure.

Mozilla is reported to be making inroads on adding a silent update mechanism to its popular Firefox desktop web browse, and plans to integrate the new service into Firefox 10 early next year, although this timeframe may slip a few months, the open sour…

Prolexic Technologies claims that it has successfully mitigated what it claims was the world’s largest DDoS attack in packets-per-second (PPS) terms – 69 million packets-per-second and with an amazing 45 Gbps of traffic.

Advanced intelligence capabilities are crucial for organizations to stay one step ahead of cyberthreats, advised Rick Howard, general manager of VeriSign iDefense.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has unveiled two new records management standards for storage and disclosure of corporate information.

The dangers of reporting on matters of a darker nature in the world of IT security were thrown sharply into focus today when security researcher Brian Krebs revealed he had experienced a sustained DDoS attack on his news servers.

A Freedom of Information request has uncovered more than 150 breaches of the UK Data Protection Act (DPA) since 2008 at police departments, city and county councils, and hospitals in Norfolk and Suffolk, England.