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A data breach can really happen to anyone – just ask the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Buried in the recently made public 2013-2014 Annual …

For all the repeated advice to use different, complex password for each online account, users are still opting for easy-to-guess, short ones and use them repeatedly across …

Oracle’s Quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) is never a minor event. In April we saw 104 security issues addressed, in January it was 144. This time around we are …

Roman Hussy, the Swiss security activist behind Abuse.ch, has started another project: the SSL Blacklist (SSLBL). Known for the trackers that keep tabs on command and control …

Though he has spent years fighting for good in comic books and on the big screen, Superman has emerged as one of the web’s biggest villains as he comes top in …

Arbor Networks released global DDoS attack data derived from its ATLAS threat monitoring infrastructure. The data shows an unparalleled number of volumetric attacks in the …

GFI Software announced the findings of its second independent study into email user habits, which revealed a stark increase in the way that work email is encroaching into the …

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public review and comment a draft report summarizing 65 challenges that cloud computing poses to …

Google has announced the launch of Project Zero, a dedicated internal team that will concentrate on finding zero-day vulnerabilities in Google’s and third-party software …

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman issued a new report examining the growing number, complexity, and costs of data breaches in the New York State. The report reveals that …

APT attackers thought to be operating from China often seem financed by the government, but there are other groups that work for the highest bidder, which is usually a private …

Russian hacker group W0rm has apparently managed to breach servers belonging to media website CNET, and make off with databases containing usernames, emails, and encrypted …