Trend Micro today broadened its cloud-based security infrastructure so that its products can receive actionable threat intelligence that lets the security software act like a "virtual shield" against many Web-based threats.

The cybersecurity bill that went down Thursday to legislative defeat shows the deep schism in Congress that had Democrats siding with traditional national-security defense hawks, and Senate Republicans, who toppled the bill, largely siding with businesses that didn't want government foisting new regulations on them.

Shadowy hacktivist group Anonymous last night issued a call to its members to attack an online T-shirt company based in France that had registered the Anonymous slogan and logo under French law. That small company, Early Flicker, now seems to be caving to demands from Anonymous.

IBM has introduced what it's calling a "next generation" intrusion-prevention system (IPS), an offering that not only is designed to stifle network-based attacks, but adds application-level controls and URL filtering capabilities typically found in separate products such as Web security gateways.

Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group recognizes securityresearchers for work on ROP

From half-naked booth reps to colorful robots, it wasn't all about security on the exhibit floor and around the conference

Security firm Radware claims to have spotted evidence online that suggests hactivist group Anonymous is gearing up to target denial-of-service attacks on the websites of British companies BT and GlaxoSmithKline during the Olympics, and maybe do much more.

Global Payments, which back in the spring reported a data breach in which information associated with an estimated 1.4 million payment cards was stolen, has revealed that expenses associated with investigations, fines and remediation has hit $84.4 million.

A researcher scored again against Oracle’s database by demonstrating at the Black Hat security conference Thursday an exploit that would allow him to take control as an administrator.

A top Apple security guru Thursday presented an in-depth view into the security architecture for iOS, the basis of iPhones and iPad tablets, underscoring the complex certificate-based encryption framework Apple has adopted.

At the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, Accuvant Labs researcher Charlie Miller showed how he figured out a way to break into both the Google/Samsung Nexus S and Nokia N9 by means of the Near Field Communication (NFC) capability in the smartphones.

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference here, a panel of experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security mess of our times, and they had plenty to say about the U.S. government, cyberwar and Google.

Cyber-espionage operations across the Internet are extensive yet highly targeted, says a malware researcher speaking this week at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas. And it's not just governments targeting other governments or trying to steal corporate secrets -- private security companies also are involved in these break-ins even while claiming to offer "ethical hacking services."

It's the largest bank-theft botnet out there, and its peer-to-peer (P2P) design, credited to cybercrime gangs in Eastern Europe, is going to make it hugely difficult to take down, according to research put forward at the Black Hat Conference.

RSA Wednesday introduced a service at the Black Hat Conference to monitor far and wide for signs of phony corporate mobile apps, and to work with Google Play, Apple iTunes and other major app stores to remove them quickly.