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Governments and corporations around the globe are facing a crisis in the form of cyber security threats. Incidents and exploits crafted by an effective and growing menace are …

Internet engineers continue to enhance Internet security with the release of OpenDNSSEC, a tool which simplifies the process of signing one or more zones with DNSSEC. …

In today’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft delivers 13 bulletins that fix vulnerabilities targeting Windows and Office. Here’s a video of Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek and …

50% of European teenagers give out personal information on the web – according to an EU study – which can remain online forever and can be seen by anybody. Today, …

BitDefender cautioned online daters about the increased security risks associated with looking for love online this year and their unique susceptibility to identity theft and …

Obviously, see cross-site scripting (XSS) is a big problem on the public Web. But there’s another angle to XSS that no one seems to be talking about – at least I …

Almost a quarter (24%) of UK adults believe retailers are primarily responsible for making online shopping safer, according to a survey of 1004 consumers by CyberSource. This …

Seagate today announced its Savvio 10K.4 hard disk drive, the world’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch enterprise-class drive. Built for the demands of enterprise servers and …

A new McAfee report highlights the rise of political hacktivism in countries like Poland, Latvia, Denmark and Switzerland as well as the most significant spam-generating …

When a file is created on a Windows system, a DOS-compatible 8.3 short file name (hereafter referred to as ‘8.3 alias’) is generated for backwards compatibility …

HBGary released Responder Professional 2.0, a Windows physical memory and automated malware analysis platform that analyzes all programs in memory including malware to obtain …

The Common Assurance Metric (CAM) launched today is a global initiative that aims to produce objective quantifiable metrics, to assure Information Security maturity in cloud, …