Brian Prince

Researchers at Symantec sinkholed a portion of the notorious ZeroAccess botnet, disconnecting more than half a million machines from the control of cybercriminals.

Cybercrime is a business, and in the case of the SSNDOB service, business is booming. According to a seven-month investigation by security reporter Brian...

The (ISC)2 security professional association released a new survey showing that C-level executives consider application vulnerabilities and mobile devices as being the biggest threats...

Cisco Systems has released an open source tool designed to make life easier for penetration testers.

New research from IBM's X-Force team names SQL injection as the most commonly traveled pathway to a successful breach during the first half of...

Oracle is releasing a bolstered version of its Big Data Appliance with new security features designed to help organization better protect Hadoop and NoSQL...

Security researchers at FireEye have observed a campaign targeting organizations in Japan that is leveraging the Internet Explorer zero-day Microsoft warned users about last...

Researchers at McAfee found new malware samples using AutoIt, joining the growing ranks of malware using the scripting language. According to McAfee, the samples...

A notorious piece of financial malware has been surging lately, and is targeting the credentials and information of customers of two dozen banks. 

Microsoft pushed out an emergency Fix It tool to close a security vulnerability being exploited in attacks against Internet Explorer 8 and 9.

A hacker-for hire crew known as the 'Hidden Lynx' has been tied to a series of sophisticated high-profile attacks targeting both businesses and governments...

A new report details advice from some of the world's largest companies on building a next-generation information security firm.

A penetration testing company uncovered security vulnerabilities on the NASDAQ website that remained open for two weeks after the stock exchange was notified.The vulnerabilities...

Over-sharing can make for some awkward social moments. It can also become the catalyst for medical identity theft.

Every two minutes, a distributed denial-of-service [DDoS] attack is occurring somewhere on the Web – actually 1.29 DDoS attacks to be exact.

Security researchers at Russia-based firm Group-IB estimates that the size of the Russian cybercrime market reached $1.938 billion in 2012.

Microsoft patched 47 security vulnerabilities across its product portfolio today as part of a massive Patch Tuesday update.

Adware is being spread alongside Mevade malware variants hitting users in the U.S. and Japan, according to Trend Micro.

Hackers are increasingly trying to exploit PHP 'SuperGlobal' variables as a way to compromise their targets, according to a new report from Imperva.

Cyber-attackers have stepped up efforts to use the G-20 Summit as bait to snare users.