Potential conflict between an organisation's security and its culture
The director of IT security at a national accounting firm has warned CIOs about the increasing level of administration access regular employees are gaining, calling it a "trust time bomb".
Registrants will need a passport or business documents to register domains
In a bid to cut down on fraud and inappropriate content, the organization responsible for administering Russia's .ru top-level domain names is tightening its procedures.
The messages try to get users to dowload a malicious attachment
Facebook's 400 million users have been targeted by a spam run that could infect their computers with malicious software designed to steals passwords and other data, according to security researchers at McAfee.
The company hopes to make money by selling services to small companies
Wep Solutions, an Indian security software and services startup, is offering its unified threat management appliance software free to small businesses around the world.
The software can detect malware on customer's computers and send it away for analysis
Security vendor Trusteer's latest product will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers' computers if it is suspected the PC has been hacked.
Tests find that most AV is still not blocking Aurora exploit
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices. But what went largely unsaid was that the industry has failed to protect paying customers from some of today's most pernicious threats.
Last month's Adobe Reader vulnerability now under attack, says F-Secure and Microsoft
Hackers adore Adobe Reader, and have pushed it into first place as the software most often exploited in targeted attacks, a Finnish security company said today.
But online banking fraud continues to rise, according to figures from financial institutions
Fraud losses due to counterfeit payment cards fell by half in 2009 from the year prior in the U.K., but online banking losses continued to rise, according to new banking industry figures released Wednesday.
US lawmakers are calling for new policies for dealing with the Chinese government
The Chinese government is likely behind recent cyberattacks on U.S. government Web sites and on U.S. companies in an apparent effort to quash criticism of the government there, an expert on U.S. and Chinese relations said Wednesday.
Twitter will shorten some links sent through the service to twt.tl
Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
Window Snyder is now an Apple senior security product manager
Former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder has been hired by Apple.
The services are designed to help enterprises ensure security in complex virtualized environments
EMC is expanding its security consulting services to help enterprises tackle the complexities of securing their data and complying with regulations in virtualized computing environments.
Two months after hack, security firm says another 68 command-and-control servers have been identified
The hackers who broke into Google two months ago have gone after more than 100 companies, according to an estimate by security vendor Isec Partners.
The system, DNSSEC, prevents hackers from redirecting people from legitimate domains to fraudulent ones
Nominet, the U.K.'s domain name registry, will begin implementing a security protocol on Monday designed to protect the DNS (Domain Name System).
IBM's latest X-Force report says there are fewer software bugs overall, but many in document and multimedia applications
The number of software vulnerabilities fell overall in 2009, but the number of bugs in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 percent, according to IBM's annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report.
