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A new report published by Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs estimates that 16 million mobile devices were infected with malware in 2014.

San Francisco - President Barack Obama is asking Silicon Valley to join his plan to boost cybersecurity, as he takes new measures to improve sharing of threat information in the absence of legislation.

What do you really need to know in order to run a successful information security program? As a professional security geek I somehow end up in conversations like this often. Throughout the ages, many smart people have uttered phrases to the effect of “knowledge is power.”

HP’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has announced the rules and prizes for this year’s Pwn2Own competition, scheduled to take place March 18-19 at the CanSecWest 2015 security conference in Vancouver, Canada.

An individual claiming to be one of the developers of the RIG exploit kit has leaked the source code for what appears to be a fairly recent version of the exploit kit.

San Francisco - US President Barack Obama seeks to rally support for cybersecurity efforts and rebuild trust eroded by leaks on surveillance in a visit Friday to Silicon Valley.

Facebook has fixed a security bug that could have allowed attackers to delete a user's photos.

Fishing successfully in a lake requires patience. Phishing successfully in cyberspace however takes only a few dollars of investment.

IBM’s Application Security Research team has conducted a study of 41 popular dating applications for Android and determined that more than 60 percent of them are potentially vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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When I talk to security leaders about their most challenging issues, one topic that always seems to come up is how to judge the effectiveness of their technology investments. Of the many options out there – from number of days without an incident to the efficacy of particular security products – I believe the concept of time provides an interesting and compelling way to view the security needs of a modern enterprise.

Alleged Cyber Criminal Extradited from Latvia to USLatvia on Thursday extradited a programmer to the United States to stand trial for his alleged role in a global cyber theft ring that hacked into a million computers.

A draft of the CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS) was made available on Wednesday for public discussion.The CCSS draft is the result of a collaboration between the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4), a Canada-based not-for-profit organization that establishes cryptocurrency standards, and Bitcoin security platform BitGo.

Vulnerabilities plaguing Google Play and some Android Web browsers can be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on smartphones, researchers warned on Tuesday.

2014 will be remembered for many things. But for those whose credit or debit card information was swiped in a data breach, it may be remembered as the year when a wave of point-of-sale malware crashed into retailers big and small.

Three students from Saarland University in Germany have discovered that tens of thousands of MongoDB databases running as a service or website backend on commercial servers were exposed on the Internet.

A Chinese attack group infected Forbes.com back in November in a watering hole attack targeting visitors working in the financial services and defense industries, according to two security companies.

Major software developers can share their files with Google-owned malware scanning service VirusTotal to ensure that their products are no longer erroneously flagged as malicious by antivirus solutions.

Washington - Facebook, Yahoo and other technology firms announced the creation of a "ThreatExchange" to share information to help thwart cyberattacks.

The developers of Simplocker, a piece of ransomware that locks Android smartphones and encrypts files on their external storage, have improved the malware to make it more difficult to recover files without paying the ransom.