Fahmida Y. Rashid

The United States Secret Service estimated more than 1,000 businesses have been infected by the "Backoff" point-of-sale malware, and many of them are unaware...

Attackers are playing on the hype around the crypto-currency Bitcoin to cast a wider phishing net looking for victims. It's not just bank credentials...

Cyber-attackers backed by China have conducted “a series of apparently targeted, sophisticated cyber-attacks” against activists representing the Uyghurs, a religious minority in China, a...

A group of security researchers called upon automobile manufacturers to build cyber-security safeguards inside the software systems powering various features in modern cars.

Kaspersky Lab said that it has discovered how victims of an ongoing massive cyber espionage campaign were infected, shedding light on questions previously left...

Pwn Pulse Combines “Hack-in-a-box” Sensors with Central Management for Remote Location Intelligence

Only 3 percent of external-facing servers in the world's largest companies have been fully protected from the Heartbleed vulnerability, researchers found.

A serious vulnerability exists in the Android operating system, which could allow malicious apps to impersonate well-known trusted apps such as Google Wallet, researchers...

Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism Conducts Hearing on Botnets and Cybercrime

Senate Committee Approves Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, But Privacy Groups Raise Concerns Over Government Access to Personal Data on U.S Citizens

A group operating under the name Tunisian Hackers Team are targeting the websites of government agencies and large organizations with distributed denial of service...