Steve Ragan

Iran said on Monday that the attack on its Oil Ministry was carried out by U.S. hackers, citing the results of internal investigations.

After MyBios (Mebromi) became the first malware to successfully infect the Award BIOS and survive a reboot to own the system, BIOS-based rootkits became...

The bot’s name is IP-Killer, also known as MP-DDoser. First documented earlier this year, IP-Killer is purely a DDoS bot, as it cannot capture...

Oracle has said that it would deliver 14 patches on Tuesday, in order to address serious security problems with the Java platform.“Due to the...

Authors Behind Flame Attempt to Cleanup – Issue Kill Command to Infected Systems

It’s been the story of the week; someone dumps a list of more than six million passwords on a Russian forum, and teams of...

According to a report from Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), German armed forces confirmed the existence of a cyberwarfare unit in a document presented to parliament...

A 39-year-old consultant from California, Michael Garcia, has been found guilty sentenced to fifty-seven months in prison for identity theft. According to the court, Garcia committed...

Research from Trusteer shows that device fingerprinting, which is used in fraud detection systems, might be a useless layer of protection after they discovered...

Yesterday, SecurityWeek published an early report on a story from Dangens IT that a hashed password list containing some 6.5 million records may have been...

A hashed password list containing some 6.5 million records has been uploaded to a Russian forum earlier this week. An expert consulted for the...

Two researchers in Israel, Yair Amit and Adi Sharabani, recently disclosed that LinkedIn’s mobile application for iOS was transmitting calendar information back to the...

On Tuesday, Google said that it will begin notifying an unnamed subset of users, which could equate to anywhere from thousands to millions of...

The EFF is warning activists in Syria to use caution when downloading documents via Skype, after a new attack blends social engineering with a...

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney almost had a Sarah Palin experience, if it wasn’t for the fact that Gawker kept their hands off the leaked...

A recent study by Experian Data Breach Resolution says that consumers are far from pleased with the typical response from a company during the aftermath...

Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a malicious PowerPoint file circulating via email, which if executed, installs a backdoor on the victim’s system. The...

In an effort to help organizations develop mobile applications that have security baked-in from the start, IBM has announced a series of static application...

Microsoft has said that it would activate Do Not Track (DNT) by default in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. This announcement caused a...

The group known as SwaggSec, who targeted Foxconn earlier this year, released a collection of files over the weekend, allegedly taken after they compromised...