Zeus and its ZBOT brethren are coming back down off banking-Trojan Olympus to take another whack at the financial services game. The info-stealing malware is reemerging with a vengeance, with increased activity and a few upgrades to the previous versions.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing a possible data breach thanks to the software it has been relying on to help process background checks for potential employees.

In the wake of Operation Hangover, a large cyber-espionage campaign run from India, security researchers have identified yet more strains of the culprit, the Kumar in the Mac (KitM) spyware for Mac OS X. And these don’t appear to have a political motivation.

Researchers continue to find that the pace of mobile malware development is accelerating. A total of 22,750 new modifications of malicious programs targeting mobile devices were detected this past quarter by Kaspersky Lab, which is more than half of the total number of modifications detected in all of 2012. A full 99.9% of them target the Android platform.

The FBI has arrested a New York City police detective for stealing the login details of at least 30 people (including 21 NYPD employees, 19 of them officers), across 43 email accounts and one cell phone. He did it by hiring a contract hit man, of sorts.

  “Won't somebody please think of the children?” seems to be Russia's refrain when it comes to their recent inception of internet censorship laws. It appears that Russian...

By David Baker With the growing movement of enterprises to the cloud, it’s more important than ever that service providers demonstrate and prove good security practices to their customers, in g...

When new technology introduces new legal questions, it can take a long time for courts to sort matters out, and cybersecurity is no exception to the rule. Cyberattacks that yielded major breaches of f...

By Mark O’Neill Most people have used the Facebook, Twitter, or Google Apps buttons located on websites to log into third-party services. This approach is useful within consumer IT as it enable...

Comment: Cybersecurity and Reality – What’s in a Word? What does the word 'cyber' really mean? Gregor Campbell cracks open his dictionary to trace its transformation

An Inside Look at AT&T’s Operations Center, and its Security Strategy One of the largest network services providers in the US invited Infosecurity to its Global Network Operations Center in Bedminster, New Jersey, and then explained why it is poised for success within the IT security market.

Comment: Rethinking Safety in the Modern Digital World Eric D Knapp of Wurldtech contemplates what safety means in today’s digital environment

The Prognosis for Medical Device Security Medical devices can be hacked – but how much of a danger is it? Danny Bradbury asks the experts

Comment: Exposing the Myths of Access Rights Management Managing access rights is time-consuming and often considered a mundane task. Nevertheless, making sure only the right people can access company data is a business-critical function. Christian Zander of protected-networks.com addresses a number of ‘myths’ he has encountered when discussing this issue with senior IT management across Europe.

Interview: Dorothy Denning In her heart a true academic, Drew Amorosi tracks down Dorothy Denning – renowned information security researcher and trainer of today’s cyber warriors

Allan Boardman says it’s time to license information security professionals and join the ranks of other esteemed professions

A licensing scheme for information security professionals would create more issues than it solves, according to Hord Tipton

Comment: Authentication – The Text Factor Lars Nielsen of SMS PASSCODE explains why multi-factor authentication is moving from traditional, token-based preset codes to real-time connected and mobile systems, and the provisioning and security benefits it offers

Interview: Larry Ponemon Dr. Larry Ponemon is the chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, and one of the nicest people you may ever meet. Here’s what happened when Eleanor Dallaway met the King of Privacy himself…