The (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology used by the majority of the world's mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week's Black Hat security conference, and what the security researchers there have to say isn't pretty.

Challenge that requires contests to target companies and obtain information is making some organizations uneasy

Siemens confirmed Tuesday that one of its customers has been hit by a new worm designed to steal secrets from industrial control systems.

Security organizations today raised Internet threat levels to warn users that they expect widespread attacks using exploits of a just-acknowledged critical bug in all versions of Windows.

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A security researcher on Sunday published a working exploit of a critical Windows vulnerability, making it more likely that attacks will spread.

Microsoft is warning that attackers are exploiting a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability using infected USB flash drives.

IDS is an old security technology, but does it still have a place in cloud security strategies? Here are four industry perspectives.

Finjan has sued five rival security companies, including Symantec and McAfee, claiming it holds crucial patents used by popular antivirus products and security services.

Mozilla on Tuesday warned users that a password-stealing add-on slipped into Firefox's extension gallery more than a month ago had been downloaded nearly 2,000 times before it was detected.

Social engineers know your company's executive team has access to the most important information about the firm, and they also know they are some of the least secure employees

The notorious ZeuS banking Trojan is showing off a new trick: Popping up on infected computers with a fake enrollment screen for the "Verified By Visa" or "MasterCard SecureCode Security" programs.

Oracle Corp. released 59 patches on Tuesday to fix security vulnerabilities across its entire range of database, application and middleware products.

White House cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt will host a meeting Wednesday to discuss progress and ways to move forward on the cybersecurity agenda outlined by President Barack Obama in May 2009.

The European Union "will not swallow" U.S. hypocrisy when negotiating an anti-counterfeiting agreement, said the senior E.U. representative involved in the talks.

CSO's Bill Brenner won't be making it to Las Vegas for the perfect storm of security events scheduled for later this month. But he's been to enough Black Hat confabs to offer these survival tips.

IBM took responsibility for a major IT system failure suffered by one of Singapore's largest banks on July 5, saying an employee's error caused the outage.

Marc Maiffret has left FireEye and is back at the company he helped launch, three years after breaking away.

Social network tools have changed our personal and professional lives. But they're also high risk. With hundreds of millions of users, these tools have attracted attackers more than any other target in recent years.