Fahmida Y. Rashid

Microsoft Dangles “Mitigation Bypass Bounty” of $100,000 for Exploit Techniques That Can be Used Against Windows

Russia and the United States have agreed to cooperate on cybersecurity issues in order to prevent an accidental cyberwar between the two countries.

After analyzing many of the most popular WordPress plugins, researchers found many of them contained serious security vulnerabilities.

Researchers have found the source code for the Carberp Trojan on sale in underground forums. A person using the name "madeinrm" announced that the...

Trend Micro researchers have found evidence of the Rarstone remote access tool (RAT) in targeted attacks against various organizations in the telecommunications and energy...

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released an update to its Top 10 list of risks facing developers. As in previous years, injection...

Cisco is revamping its security ecosystem to increase the focus on its Identity Services Engine, which would help enterprises deploy layered defenses without increasing...

Account takeover attempts and credit card fraud have nearly doubled over a six month period, ThreatMetrix said, as part of its new Cybercrime Index,...

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - Information security is peppered with several misconceptions and exaggerations about threats facing businesses and the technologies to combat those threats,...

Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) remain concerned about the security, privacy, and reliability of cloud applications, but they quickly see the benefits once...

An article reporting on the National Security Agency's surveillance program on a Washington news site was compromised and directed users to a malicious site,...

After months of accusations that China was backing extensive cyber-espionage operations against the United States, a top Internet security official in China said it...

Malware is increasingly shifting to peer-to-peer communications when receiving instructions from command-and-control servers and transferring stolen data to evade detection, Damballa said in a...

Microsoft, various financial services organizations, and federal law enforcement have successfully disrupted more than 1,000 botnets that utilize the Citadel malware.

WASHINGTON – The former head of the National Security Agency painted a stark picture of government cyber-defenders unable to deal with the current wave...

Apple addressed over thirty serious vulnerabilities in OS X and Safari Web browser in a hefty update this week. The updates address vulnerabilities in Mac...

WASHINGTON, DC – Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered yet another cyber-espionage campaign targeting unnamed “high profile” businesses and government agencies around the world, and...

ThreatMetrix, a provider of technologies to help organizations thwart cybercrime, announced a new intelligence network containing threat data and information that can be used...

Information sharing is one of the key buzzwords in information security today, but there hasn't been a lot of movement towards formalizing public/private partnerships...

Chinese hackers have intercepted designs for sensitive weapons systems, according to a report prepared for government and defense officials, the Washington Post reported.