A security researcher tried to sell a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet program on eBay. The auction site removed the listing on Thursday night, after the listing was bid to $60.

When the latest variant of the Sober worm appeared online, anti-virus vendors were aware that the worm communicates with its author, but they did not know the exact way.

As part of its monthly Patch Tuesday cycle, Microsoft gave advanced notice of updates it plans to release on Tuesday next week. The company will issue two security updates, with one deemed critical - Microsoft’s highest risk rating.

Security risk management requires a proactive approach that can assist organisations of all sizes. A formal security risk management process enables enterprises to operate in the most cost efficient manner with a known and acceptable level of business risk.

Instant messaging (IM) was never invited to the communications party in the enterprise - it crashed the party, and now IT managers are finding themselves in a position where they must find a way to control IM before the dining room table gets smashed.

Latest study from (ISC)2 shows that information security professionals are gaining influence in the board room. Management will spend more than 43 percent of its IT security budget on personnel, education and employee training.

Intel is trying to eliminate the human factor when dealing with root-kits detection by developing a new hardware-based technique to discover and notify users when they are downloading unintentionally a root-kit to their computer.

A few months ago we installed a burglar alarm in our house. The company sent a trustworthy employee to do the installation, and he set the whole thing up for us.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked a federal judge in New York City to reject a Department of Justice request to track mobile phone users without probable cause of a crime.

Secure Blue announced today that it has singed partnership agreement with leading information security consulting firm Vigilar. Vigilar now offers Secure Blue’s Sarbanes-Oxley and Internet Network Security software suit to Vigilar clients.