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In addition to being a renowned theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein was also quite a wizard at writing security procedures and processes.

Researchers at Symantec have uncovered a fake app store for Google Android that is hosting malware designed to bilk users out of big bucks.According to Symantec, mobile malware scammers have created the fake market to host various applications that are actually Trojans used for SMS fraud.

IT Managers Aren’t The Only Ones Aware of The BYOD Trend – Attackers are Too! Is Your Security Strategy Ready?This article is the third installment in my “firewall” series. (Read Part I, Part II)

In response to the increase in attacks on industrial control systems that power utilities, industries and critical infrastructure systems, Norway-based Norman ASA is launching a product designed to protect SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems against cyber attacks from malware such as trojans, worms and viruses—ones like stuxnet.

The Hands-off Approach to Monitoring and Managing Threats that Transit an ISP’s Network is Putting Businesses and Government at Risk.

FBI Director Pays Visit to Thank Latvian and Estonian Officials for Their Cooperation in Operation Ghost Click, Looks for Future Cooperation

FishNet Security today launched a new cloud-based threat monitoring and response service aimed at helping businesses log information security events across multiple sources, reduce data leakage, and proactively respond to emerging threats and meet regulatory requirements.

Juniper Networks today released its 2011 Mobile Threats Report which showed a 155 percent increase in mobile malware across all mobile platforms in 2011, and a whopping 3,325 percent increase in malware specifically targeting the Android platform in the last seven months of 2011 alone.

Both the BATS and NASDAQ exchanges were under constant assault early this week, thanks to a flood of packets sent their way by an unknown group or person. These recent attacks are just the latest in a string of attacks that have hit the UN, CIA, and others.

The Waledec botnet, which was taken down in 2010 by Microsoft, was responsible for more spam delivery than any other botnet in its class with a reach of about 1.5 billion emails a day. Earlier this month, researchers at Palo Alto Networks discovered a third variant of the botnet, and it was serving up more than just spam.According to Palo Alto Networks, this new version “includes the ability to sniff user credentials for FTP, POP3, SMTP, and steal .dat files...

CloudCracker, a new service from security researcher Moxie Marlinspike, which expands on the platform developed for WPACracker, offers penetration testers and network auditors a way to run hundreds of millions of words against a given password to test its strength.

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday is a monthly news event. But new research from Secunia shows that focusing on patching Microsoft vulnerabilities can create a dangerous security blind spot.

Microsoft released fixes for 21 security vulnerabilities as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday.The vulnerabilities are covered in nine separate bulletins, including four that are rated ‘Critical.’ The most serious of the updates is MS12-010, opined Jim Walter, manager of the McAfee Threat Intelligence Service at McAfee Labs. Aimed at Internet Explorer, the update fixes four privately reported vulnerabilities.

AlgoSec has added new features to its flagship security management suite to help organizations leveraging next-generation firewalls.

If you are part of a security team that spends time carefully piecing together and reviewing corporate IT security policies, this may hurt your feelings: According to a new survey jointly commissioned by Xerox and McAfee, more than half of workers don’t always follow or are unaware of their company’s security policies.