Bitcoin wallet applications reveal flaw in Google’s SecureRandom system. Security firm, Symantec announced claims that a flaw in Google Android’s security protocols may open of 360,000 applications to attack by thieves. The flaw itself was announced earlier that week by app...

Protected health information for over 32,000 compromised by vendor firewall blunder. The following is a perfect example of why detection should be in real time! Officials released a statement Thursday about an incident which compromised the protected health information of o...

Researchers find Google Chrome users click through SSL warnings far more often than Firefox users. A new report released by a Google researcher in conjuncture with a University of California graduate student has found that SSL warnings are less effective with Chrome users t...

Bank users may be making it too easy for criminals to access their money. A study conducted by DataGenetics found that the most commonly used 4-digit PIN number is still 1234, closely followed by 1111 and 0000. The research also showed that 10% of the 3.4 million codes anal...

With this new method in place, hackers will find it almost impossible to reverse-engineer software. A professor of computer science at UCLA, Amit Sahai, has developed a way of encrypting software in a way that it can also run in that encrypted state. This breakthrough in cr...

Security of private health data for over 3 thousand patients compromised by residents using Gmail. Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) is currently in hot water for storing patient data and health information in a cloud service without first conducting due diligence....

Malware outbreak infects hundreds of PCs, shutting down transportation department for two weeks. A good illustration of how one unaware employee can bring down an entire organization. It is now believed that the cause of a malware outbreak which shut down the Chicago highwa...

The newly developed KINS banking Trojan was discovered being sold to cybercriminals for thousands of dollars. A new malware called KINS has been reported being sold to cyberthieves for $5,000 apiece. Experts are comparing this new Trojan to the infamous Zeus, SpyEye, and Ci...

Failings in security measures make the help desk the weakest link in company security. Help desk workers have been revealed to be the weakest point of entry for criminals using social engineering and technical attacks. A report released by the SANS institute and RSA focuse...