Steve Ragan

A recently disclosed vulnerability in the Foxit PDF viewer has been patched in the latest software release. The issue, first discovered by Italian security...

In a blog post examining cases from 2012, Verizon Business’ Andrew Valentine presented a tale of a critical infrastructure firm in the U.S. who...

On Tuesday, AlienVault, the company behind open source SIEM, OSSIM, announced the version 4.1 release of their Unified Security Management platform, which looks to...

Recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan shows that the security of critical facilities remains the topmost priority for the global oil and gas industry....

The Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has revealed that it has lost a portable hard drive that contained personal information on some 583,000...

Last week, researchers discovered a Java vulnerability being widely exploited online, as it was included in several crime kits, including Blackhole and Cool Exploit....

Microsoft has said it would release a patch this afternoon, out-of-band, that will address the recently discovered Internet Explorer vulnerability that has been used...

Anonymous is petitioning the White House to legalize DDoS, urging them to recognize it as a legitimate means of protest. But based on the...

Foxit, the popular alternative to Adobe’s Reader software for PDF files, and the application often recommended as a more secure alternative, has been tagged...

Nokia's Xpress Mobile Browser Decrypts HTTPS TrafficNokia earned some time in front of the InfoSec firing squad this week, after they admitted to intercepting...

Los Alamos National Lab, one of two labs in the nation responsible for nuclear research, has replaced networking equipment out of concerns over security....

According to a report from the New York Times, Iran is to blame for a wave of DDoS attacks against several U.S. banks this...

After pleading guilty last September, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday that Cezar Butu, of Ploiesti, Romania, has been sentenced to 21-months...

Dell SecureWorks Launches Vulnerability Management Offering for Virtual and Cloud Deployments Looking to attract more business customers to the cloud, Dell SecureWorks announced on...

A company that deals vulnerability intelligence and pays for research has said they were able to bypass the"Fix It" measure offered by Microsoft recently.

John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus and security company that carries his name, said that he built his own custom made botnet designed to...

NVIDIA said that it would patch a driver exploit disclosed by a researcher on Christmas Day, which allows an attacker to gain super-user access...

On Wednesday, an SQL Injection vulnerability was disclosed that impacts all versions of the Ruby on Rails (a.k.a. Rails) platform. However, despite the fact...

Microsoft has issued a security advisory, and confirmed reports that a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer has been used in targeted attacks. One such...

According to an Army spokesperson, 36,000 records maintained by CECOM (Communications-Electronics Command) and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), were breached...