Fahmida Y. Rashid

Despite the headlines and repeated warnings, a recent survey suggests businesses still need to learn security lessons the hard way.

Iraq's civil war now has a cyber-component, with researchers encountering increased cyber-espionage tools and custom malware.

When it comes to bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and mobile security, organizations are often shortsighted, focusing only on protecting corporate data stored on mobile devices. This...

A new banking Trojan being promoted in underground forums as an alternative to the popular and widely used Zeus Trojan has the potential to...

Survey Shows IT Security Pros Aren’t Getting the Business Expertise Skills They Need at Their Current Companies...

Suits and Spooks New York PreviewWhere else would you find bankers, consultants, former intelligence officials, and academics in one room, discussing cybersecurity challenges? At...

Increasing Sophistication of Iranian Attack Tactics Has Striking Similarities With How Chinese Hacker Groups Have Evolved

The new anti-phishing feature currently being tested in the experimental version of Google Chrome does not work as well as intended and poses security...

The Covert Redirect issue, the reportedly "serious vulnerability" uncovered recently in login tools OAuth and OpenID, places the responsibility for user security in the...

Attackers are exploiting a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer in campaigns  targeting Windows XP users, FireEye researchers have found.

A remote management tool used in some enterprises can be exploited by attackers to remotely connect to a host without needing any passwords, according...

Hacking critical infrastructure looks extremely easy in movies, but up until now, there was some reassurance that it wasn't as simple as just typing...

The recently-disclosed Heartbleed vulnerability has forced many system administrators to promptly patch affected servers. That was just the easy part. The hard work lies...

Technology Giants Aim to Secure Critical Open Source Projects Through ‘Core Infrastructure Initiative’ via The Linux FoundationIndustry heavyweights including Microsoft, Google, Intel, and Cisco...

First CyberRX Exercise Outlines Areas for Improvement for Healthcare Organizations

Point-of-sale (PoS) attacks are declining, while Web application attacks and cyber-espionage is increasing, according to the latest edition of the annual Verizon Data Breach...

Akamai Publishes Prolexic Q1 2014 Global DDoS Attack Report Attackers are shifting away from traditional botnet-based distributed denial of service (DDoS)attacks in favor of...

A flaw buried deep inside a widely used cryptographic library has serious implications for Internet security. It's very likely criminals may have had access...