The same hacker collective that launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Xbox Live service took down another gaming network it had previously targeted. The infamous Lizard Squad ...

The Federal Communications Commission has voted to permit cable companies to encrypt television signals to prevent theft by consumers. Encrypting basic cable signals, a practice banned before the FCC ...

SC Media's 30 on 30 podcast looks at the issues and evolution characterizing the security industry over SC's 30-year history. In this episode we talk to Steve Durbin, managing director of the ...

Kaspersky Lab says young cyber-security talent should be used to the industry's advantage, but education and businesses must first provide more programmes and roles to pave the way for new generations ...

Pam Schwamb, a senior manager and scyops engineer at Conquest Cyber, describes how she entered the cybersecurity industry and the challenges of getting an authorization package through the Department ...

The Biden administration and Congress have been urged by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 to continue working on materializing its recommendations for enhancing U.S. cybersecurity, CyberScoop ...

Such an intrusion was noted by Halliburton in an email to suppliers to have involved the "maintenance.exe" file, which was confirmed to be an encryptor leveraged by the ransomware gang.

A prominent U.S. newspaper has taken a stance that Edward Snowden deserves clemency. Snowden – a former NSA contractor who stole classified U.S. documents to blow the lid off indiscriminate NSA ...

Richard has over 20 years of experience developing open source software, 15 of which at Red Hat. He is the maintainer of the LVFS, fwupd, libxmlb, ODRS, the original creator of GNOME Software, ...

Nearly six months into the term of the 110th Congress, its unclear whether significant federal breach notification legislation will be passed before the November 2008 general election, breach experts ...

Linux developers reported very few viruses or intrusions to their systems, according to a recent survey. Ninety-two percent of the 500 Linux developers surveyed in July by market-research firm Evans ...

It’s critical that enterprises and security teams don’t neglect network traffic within the data center — because this is where attackers are going to try to dig in. Updated IDS/IPS technology and ...