Two US lawsuits, both involving producers of adult content, raise interesting questions: is the owner of an unsecured WiFi responsible for all downloaded material, and can you copyright pornography?

Malicious spam grows, Blackhole dominates and critical national infrastructures are targeted, says M86 in its latest report.

The food and beverage industry is the top target for cybercriminals for the second year in a row, according to the 2012 Global Security Report by Trustwave SpiderLabs.

Spammers are targeting QuickBooks users in a tax-related scam that links to a BlackHole exploit kit.

South Korean researchers are warning that a number of political events this year could trigger an increase in cyberattacks from North Korea.

Reading the observations, and recommendations of Dame Pauline Neville-Jones with respect of Internet Security, I must admit to having a flow of Déjà vu sweep over me. This driven by stat...

  Recently HTC acknowledged a vulnerability that can expose a user’s WiFi credentials, including the WiFi SSID and security passwords to a malicious app running on some of its Android phon...

First, please excuse me for letting my inner Archie Bunker vent a little. If you are anything like me, then you could care less about updating your Facebook page on an hourly basis. Sure, I have a pag...

I am honoured to have been invited back to present at the prestigious e-Crime Congress to be held in London, March this year. However it caused a flash-back to the last occasion I presented at Congres...

The Approaching Mobility MaelstromLast year Drew Amorosi polled the Infosecurity editorial board on their predictions for 2011. This year he decided to broaden the sample and find out what the rest of the industry are talking about. What he received was an overdose of mobile security warnings

Comment: Make PCI DSS Part of Your Security StrategyJeremy King, European director of the PCI Security Standards Council, describes how recent figures from the UK Cards Association showed PCI has been successful in decreasing the volume of card and bank account fraud

A Superior (infosec) Education As the information security industry becomes more coveted, Wendy M. Grossman takes a look at the university courses available to aspiring and competing infosec professionals on both sides of the Atlantic

Comment: APT Tops Security Risks to Corporate IP in 2012Verdasys’ Bill Ledingham shares his insights on advanced persistent threats (APT) and offers steps companies can take to increase their cybersecurity

Comment: Information Assurance as a Flexible Security SolutionChris Mayers of Citrix UK outlines how the public sector can meet confidentiality, integrity and availability requirements in the face of ongoing regulatory and technological change

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Insider ThreatsWhether intentional or unintentional, insider threats take many forms. The (ISC)² US Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau examines this dichotomy and how it is being affected by both regulatory considerations, and the rapidly changing technology landscape

Infosecurity: Do You Eat Your Own Dog Food?How many traffic policemen never exceed the speed limit when off duty? How many vicars don’t swear? And how many IT security professionals practice what they preach? No, seriously, do you eat your own dog food? That’s the question Davey Winder has been asking of infosec professionals in an attempt to determine just how secure security experts really are away from the office

Compliance Strategies – A.K.A. Alphabet SoupDoes your organization follow a recipe, or simply ‘eye-up’ the ingredients to your compliance tick boxes? Fred Donovan taste-tests what is often viewed as the unsavory side of the information security profession

Comment: Data Governance Must Evolve to Meet Growing Insider ThreatInsider-driven data leaks are in the news every day, and unstructured data provides the biggest challenge for IT to secure and manage. Brian Vecci of Varonis Systems highlights key steps that organizations can take to measure and improve their data governance, and reduce data loss from insiders

Paging Doctor Compliance With changes to the US healthcare system already underway – albeit at a snail’s pace – now is the perfect time to examine how the regulatory and compliance landscape may change with it. Esther Shein surveys the sector and seeks the proper prescription