• Nation's critical infrastructure cyber defenses weak, DHS tells hearing

  By John P. Mello | 17 May, 2013 17:51

  Experts criticize government's threat sharing, noting it wants the private sector to be generous but it's stingy with the private sector

• Police arrest Anonymous suspects in Italy

  By Philip Willan | 17 May, 2013 17:42

  Italian police arrested four suspected hackers Friday, accusing them of having taken control of the Italian branch of the Anonymous network.

• Experts ding DHS vulnerability sharing plan as too limited

  By Antone Gonsalves | 17 May, 2013 13:00

  Without universally availability, plan could miss smaller businesses hackers could use as an entry point to critical infrastructure companies

• Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK

  By Lucian Constantin | 16 May, 2013 18:11

  Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011.

• Researchers develop industrial systems that watch for security breaches

  By Antone Gonsalves | 15 May, 2013 21:35

  With the new networking method, devices are able spot a problem unit and then isolate it from the network before it can do any damage

• Chinese Government's Link to Cyber Espionage Clearer Than Ever

  By Thor Olavsrud | 20 February, 2013 16:09

  It's a common belief in the information security world that the Chinese government is behind many of the advanced persistent threats that target companies around the world in an effort to steal their IP and trade secrets. Now one security firm has come forward with years of evidence to link a prolific APT group to a unit inside the Chinese government.

• 13 IT security myths debunked

  By Ellen Messmer | 15 February, 2013 23:19

  They're security myths, oft-repeated and generally accepted notions about IT security that ... simply aren't true. As we did a year ago, we've asked security professionals to share their favorite "security myths" with us. Here are 13 of them.

• Mobile attacks top the list of 2013 security threats

  By Thor Olavsrud | 09 January, 2013 14:25

  For years, information security experts have predicted a spike in mobile malware. Will 2013 be the year of mobile attacks? And what other security threats are on the horizon?

• Penetration Testing

  By Malcolm Higgins | 13 July, 2011 12:16

  This is a real issue, and not just one for the well publicised attacks on major corporations such as Sony, Lockheed, Google, and Citi. It affects every business and organisation, large and small. More worrying still, it is now widely suggested that hackers and espionage organisations are moving away from directly attacking their target company, choosing instead to route their attack through suppliers to their target. Thus, even small and seemingly innocuous “third party” businesses who would not consider themselves as potential targets are now on the front line of this cyber war.

• Exposing Bad Actor Sites That Support Cybercrime

  By Alex Lanstein | 09 October, 2009 03:04

  Much of today's cyber crime is supported by bad-actor sites that enable questionable and criminal activities. A look at McColo, ZlKon, HostFresh and other "sinister" players.

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