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Google chief Larry Page on Friday branded Internet spying a threat to freedoms and called for governments to be more revealing about what they try to find out about people’s online activities.

Scotland-based travel company, Stewart Travel, was faced with the difficult task of demonstrating to its new bank compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards by a certain timeframe, or face significant fines.

Organizations Should Look for Ways to Involve Employees in Mitigating and Eliminating Threats Before they Happen…

As a slightly amusing coda to the story of Edward Snowden take a look at this Booz Allen job listing posted May 22 for an Information Security Engineer in Honolulu. You could literally be the next Snowden if you have the right stuff.

A media manhunt began in Hong Kong on Monday morning as residents awoke to discover the man claiming responsibility for a series of sensational leaks about U.S. spying programs last week was holed up in a local luxury hotel.

The Government must tell the public if it has access to information about New Zealanders it may have received from the United States’ National Security Agency, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.

Researchers say they have discovered a sophisticated trojan that targets Android smartphones – exploiting two previously unknown vulnerabilities in the mobile platform and a third flaw in separate software – to send text messages to premium-rate numbers and download other malware onto victims’ phones.

Last year, when James Beeson’s son was at Texas Tech University, studying to become an engineer, he came across a calculus problem that had him stumped.

The issue of whether or not information security professionals should be licensed to practice has already been the topic of many a passionate debate.

Check Point’s report showed that 79% of businesses had a mobile security incident in the last year, while 42% lost six figures and 16% lost over $500,000.