Steve Ragan

According to a report from SecurityMetrics, a data security and compliance firm, 70 percent of merchants that accept credit and debit cards are storing...

According to a new study from the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit that operates the .ORG domain, a universal misunderstanding in the general...

Piwik, an open source alternative to Google Analytics, announced on Tuesday that they had suffered a security breach, and the attacker inserted a backdoor...

Earlier this month, pro-Palestine supporters of Anonymous launched “OpIsrael”, a virtual offensive against Israel in protest of Israel’s strikes inside of Gaza. The campaign...

On Tuesday, for unknown reasons at the time, Google suddenly started re-verifying people to previous levels of access. As it turns out, the reason...

Printers manufactured by Samsung, and sold via Dell or direct channels, are vulnerable to attack thanks to a hard-coded administrator account in the device’s...

According to a recent study performed by B2B International on behalf of Kaspersky Lab, approximately 50 percent of organizations globally (even more in the...

In order to combat e-commerce fraud and related crimes, Visa announced on Monday that it would be adding risk-based analysis to its information products...

On Friday, reporter Brian Krebs published a report on a different kind of post-holiday sale, one where a seller is looking to make a...

Judge Loretta Preska, who is presiding over Jeremy Hammond’s trial for his role in the Christmas Eve attack on Stratfor in 2011, is being...

On Saturday, hundreds of Pakistani portals and Web sites for some major organizations were by all appearance compromised, and defaced. However, as it turns...

Nationwide may not be on your side, at least when it comes to press containment and incident response. According to a letter from the...

Mozilla has released the latest version of its Firefox Web browser, which addresses a massive batch of 2,365 bugs. In addition to general usability...

Andrew Auernheimer, of Goatse Security fame, was found guilty on Tuesday of one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computers and one...

In a muffled and convoluted audio recording, the ex-councilman of the village of Carmelita, Anthony Rhaburn, allegedly tries to convince an employee working for...

When the worst happens, and a breach has caused serious damage to your organization, you may be placed into a position where you need...

Risk-based Authentication Solution Combats Fraud with Trojan Detection, Mobile Defense, and ATM Transaction Protections

Last week, someone posted a module to the Full Disclosure mailing list, which turned out to be a rootkit for Linux. Experts examined it,...

This week, and the week after, plenty of you will do some holiday shopping at the office. Cyber Monday, nothing more than a crafty...

On Friday, the PCI Security Standards Council published a set of guidelines for organizations looking to get a handle on risk assessment and threat...