The Dutch government is revoking the DigiNotar’s subordinate certificate authorities (CAs) under the Staat der Nederlanden root certificates.

Around two million Massachusetts citizens, one out of every three state residents, had personal information compromised through data theft or loss since the beginning of 2010, according to Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Research just released from Check Point claims to show that 42% of UK firms experienced 25 or more social engineering attacks in the last two years, including targeted attacks such as spear phishing.

CA Technologies has announced the creation of a European research centre in co-operation with Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech (UPC).

Two security researchers claim to have found a way of breaking the SSL/TLS encryption that is widely used to guarantee the reliability and privacy of data exchanged between web browsers and servers.

The prevalence and intensity of SQL injection attacks are increasing, according to Imperva's Hacker Intelligence Initiative (HII) report.

Cybersecurity startups often fail to attract venture capital (VC) because investors want to invest in companies that will makes millions quickly, but not all information security startup are interested in that model, observed Chris Wysopal, founder and chief technology officer with application security firm Veracode.

Barracuda Networks has launched its No Limits road show in Europe, allowing clients to meet the security firm's CEO Dean Drako, chief research officer Dr. Paul Judge and the rest of the senior management. The tour will also, says the company, provide end users with best practice information and advice on protecting themselves form the latest threats on the internet, as well as resellers with further information.

A Symantec security expert has spotted a variant of the Morto worm that seems to parse requests through a Chinese online gaming server. The good news – from a UK perspective – is that the game it parses commands through are aimed at the Chinese community in the Far East.

On the opening day of the first (ISC)² Congress, collocated with ASIS 2011 in Orlando, Florida, the information security professional body announced the formation of the (ISC)² chapter programme.

On the first day of the (ISC)² Congress 2011, (ISC)² announced that it has formed the (ISC)² Foundation - a new charitable organisation dedicated to delivering education and awareness programmes to communities around the globe to make the cyber world a safer place for everyone.

A leading IT security researcher says he has observed a rising number of Russian forum sites using Captcha technology to help keep foreigners (i.e., non-Russian security investigators) out of their systems.