Steve Ragan

Stoke-on-Trent City Council (UK) has been smacked with a £120,000 fine for failing to secure sensitive information that was being transmitted electronically. The data,...

When mathematician Zachary Harris was examining a job pitch from a recruiter at Google, he discovered a flaw in DKIM that allowed him to spoof emails from...

Now that September has come and gone, many security firms are publishing their Q3 reports, loaded with malware and cybercrime trends and statistics.

Earlier this week, SecurityWeek reported on an initiative from Verdasys to push the term "DLP 3.0" it their launch of Digital Guardian 6.1.

AlienVault, the company behind open source SIEM, OSSIM, on Wednesday announced the formation of the Open Minds Exchange (OME), a resource center housing a collection...

Barnes & Noble, the nation’s largest book chain, has suffered a data breach resulting in the loss of customer credit card data. Notification of...

The University of Alabama’s Center for Information Assurance and Joint Forensics Research (CIA|JFR) has received $250,000 from the world’s largest social network, thanks in...

The Federal Trade Commission has published a staff report containing guidelines and recommendations for companies that use facial recognition technologies. The compilation of best...

According to its security roundup for Q3 2012, Trend Micro says that the number of high-risk and overall dangerous applications targeting the Android platform...

Digital Guardian 6.1 Includes Advanced Malware Prevention, Detection and Containment, Extends Coverage to Windows 8 and iOS Verdasys, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based information security solutions...

Researchers from two universities in Germany have published a paper on the state of SSL within several Android applications, and the findings were far...

On Friday, Microsoft announced that it has reached a settlement with Andrey N. Sabelnikov, a Russian software programmer, after naming him in the lawsuit...

Web security firm, Websense, recently examined a small spam campaign that included variants of the Zeus Trojan that had little to no coverage by...

During her keynote at RSA Europe earlier this week, Adrienne Hall, Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing General Manager, announced the release of a tool that will...

During Google’s Pwnium competition at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this week, a clever teenage hacker leveraged two bugs...

Mozilla has removed the latest version of their FireFox Web browser just over a day after it was released, due to a vulnerability that...

A recent report from Blue Coat Systems, has revealed that the number of malicious networks – or "Malnets" – has tripled in the last...

Iranian official Mohammad Reza Golshani, head of the communications and IT of the NIOOC (Nat’l Iranian Offshore Oil Company), said that Israel launched a...

Professional, coordinated attackers with a plan, breached a server maintained by Northwest Florida State College (NWFSC) and walked off with nearly 300,000 records, and...

HyTrust 3.0 Integrates ‘Secondary Approval’ Feature To Safeguard Against Operational Downtime and Internal Security Breaches.At the RSA Europe Conference in London this week, HyTrust,...