Brian Prince

Microsoft has blacklisted a fraudulent SSL certificate the company said could be used to spoof content and perform phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks.

U.S. government requests for Facebook user data dropped off in the second half of 2014, according to the social networking site's latest Transparency Report.

DLL hijacking is not just a Windows thing: it turns out that a conceptually similar attack is possible for OS X systems.

Feeling pressured to keep your organization secure? You are not alone.

Federal authorities want courts to have more leeway in granting injunctions to take down botnets.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab pulled back more of the layers covering the activities of the Equation Group today with the release of details about the...

Access to the personal email server used by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not encrypted or authenticated by a digital certificate for...

Microsoft released a fix for the FREAK vulnerability today as part of a massive Patch Tuesday security update.

A security researcher has released a tool that allows hackers to hijack accounts on sites that use Facebook logins.

Point-of-sale vendor NEXTEP SYSTEMS confirmed it was notified by law enforcement that the security of some of its systems at customer locations may have...

The White House today announced a new initiative to train more Americans for careers in the IT workforce. The program, dubbed TechHire, is a...

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has confirmed the credit card systems at a number of its hotels in the United States and Europe have been...

Point-of-sale (PoS) malware has become one of the chief weapons used by attackers to steal credit and debit card data, and now researchers at...

Identity thieves were busy during 2014, but a new study estimates that U.S. consumers actually suffered fewer losses than in the past.

One takedown at a time, security researchers and law enforcement were able to make a dent in financial cyber-crime last year.

Researchers have released details of a vulnerability (CVE-2015-0204) that makes it possible for hackers to crack HTTPS-protected traffic by forcing vulnerable clients to downgrade...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report calling for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to strengthen the cyber-security of the nation's air...

Natural Grocers is investigating a breach impacting customer payment card data.

Hackers have modified an exploit for a vulnerability in Internet Explorer fixed last October and added it to a notorious exploit kit.

The minds behind PlugX have added a new twist to the malware to make it stealthier.