Kaspersky Lab presents ‘End of the Line for the Bredolab Botnet?’, an article by malware analyst Alexey Kadiev. The botnet emerged in mid-2009 and comprised some 30 million infected computers all over the world. In October, the Dutch police force’s Cybercrime Department announced the shutdown of 143 Bredolab botnet control servers. Alexey Kadiev’s article reveals [...]

The power grid is an obvious target for terrorists, but experts disagree about how to secure it.

When it comes to critical national infrastructure, the highly distributed and ultra-interconnected U.S. power grid is, hands down, the most vulnerable to cyberattack. On this one point, many cybersecurity experts seem to agree.
Internet warfare: Is the focus on the [...]

 Companies are only marginally better at quickly plugging security holes, while exploit writers typically produce attacks within days, according to research recently released by security firm Qualys.
In a report published at last week’s RSA Security Conference, the firm released the results of the approximately 80 million vulnerability scans it conducted for its customers in 2008. [...]

(Mark Gibbs)Security is an ugly business because when you have a problem there’s rarely an elegant, straightforward solution. What you usually wind up with is a solution that’s just “good enough.” I recently learned of a great example that nicely illustrates this point.
A friend sent me a link to an amazing report titled “ATM Card [...]

Internet security experts say that the computer worm known as Conficker, which has the ability to silently penetrate vulnerabilities within the Microsoft operating system, is beginning to rear its ugly head.
They say that the software is installing new and malicious programs on some of the computers it has already invaded with the [...]

(Greg Sandoval)The main investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has reopened a probe of Lime Wire and other peer-to-peer file-sharing companies over the issue of “inadvertent sharing.” The move comes nearly two months after it was alleged that Iran took advantage of a computer security breach to obtain information about President Barack Obama’s [...]