Steve Ragan

The Carberp Trojan, which has been around for years and has been proven able of bypassing layered defenses, has made a comeback of sorts....

An update to XProtect on OS X 10.6 has blocked Java entirely. Given the nature of XProtect and the standing security problems in Oracle’s...

Two former U.S. officials have told the Associated Press that a new National Intelligence Estimate (NEI) is being prepared, and that it will include details...

An internal audit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has discovered a backlog that poses a significant risk to its cybercrime investigative progress,...

Mozilla is making changes to an initiative called "Click to Play", which has been in existence since Firefox 17 was released, that prevents Firefox...

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Claims Victory After Anti-Islam Video is Pulled From YouTube

According to a report from Sophos, the Citadel crime kit is branching out from its Zeus roots, and the criminals responsible for the botnet’s...

On Monday, Vormetric announced the release of Vormetric Vault, a solution the company says is a scalable all-in-one measure for organizations looking to secure...

AV Vendor Avast has announced that they’ll be sponsoring a bug bounty program, in order to reward researchers who discover flaws in their software....

Last November, SecurityWeek reported about the discovery of a rootkit on Linux that was injecting malicious iFrames into websites. The module, recognized by experts...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has said that a new project will help the government make sense of the massive amounts of...

According to a new bill introduced to the Senate this week, cybersecurity will be a priority for the 113th Congress. Democratic leaders of the...

Microsoft has suggested that users and businesses switch to Skype following the scheduled shutdown of the MSN Messenger service in March. The problem, however,...

In press conference discussing their 2012 performance on Monday, which was part of the company’s efforts to be more transparent to lawmakers, Huawei's CFO, Cathy Meng,...

On Monday, McAfee outlined its plans for the Security Connected framework, which enables security products to work together. According to a statement from Intel’s...

A draft proposal for the Cyber Security Strategy of the European Union has been circulating ahead of official publication, which would require public and...

Oracle isn’t having a good month as far as PR and security is concerned. Adam Gowdiak, a researcher in Poland with Security Explorations, says...

The computer emergency response team in Poland, CERT Polska, announced last week that they’ve taken over several domains linked to the Virut botnet. While...

On the day that the company started a PR push for the Zscaler Application Profiler (ZAP), using a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw discovered in...

A report from Telework Exchange, sponsored by EMC, VMware, Cisco, and Carahsoft, shows that Federal employees are taking advantage of the BYOD bandwagon, but...