Nearly half of all small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have fallen victim to cybercrime, yet some still are operating with no security defenses in place, according to a report released this week by anti-virus firm Panda Security.
Observers believe a Pentagon official's recount of a major breach can help others from making the same mistake, while some think the incident calls into question the U.S. military's IT security preparedness.
IBM X-Force's mid-year threat report examined trends in vulnerability disclosures, techniques used to foist malware and risks to virtual environments, plus much more.
A new family of distributed denial-of-service bots is responsible for nearly 200 attacks targeted at websites in China, the United States, South Korea and Germany, according to researchers.
An investigation into the 2008 crash of Spanair Flight 5022 has revealed that a trojan-infected central computer system may have contributed to the fatal accident, according to reports.
Using the analogy of workers inspecting marbles of varying colors, the author explains how organizations can apply clustering to defend against evolving threats.
An estimated hundreds of thousands to millions of Network Solutions parked domains were actively serving malware to visitors due to an infected widget, according to researchers at a security firm.
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