When it comes to database breaches, the real issue is lack of real-time insight into what is actually happening to the data.

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo Mail could leave instant messenger users open to attack.

Adobe has updated its Reader and Acrobat products to shore up a major vulnerability that already is being exploited in the wild.

Despite initially maintaining that the Safari for Windows "carpet bomb" issue was not a security vulnerability, Apple has decided to release a patch.

A new, free toolkit that turns a trojan into a worm -- discovered this week by Panda Labs' researchers -- is a ploy to keep the heat off the more sophisticated hackers, experts say.

Two crimeservers containing 500 megabytes of stolen data have been discovered in Argentina and Malaysia. The data was likely being made available online to the highest bidder.

A new phishing scheme is targeting EPPICard users, according to the FBI.

The deadly twisters that ripped through Kansas this week and the historic floods sweeping across the Upper Midwest will soon give rise to donation scams and malicious attacks, the SANS Storm Center warned on Friday.

A vulnerability discovered in widely deployed industrial process control software could grant a remote attacker control over critical infrastructure, researchers said on Wednesday.

Researchers are tracking a new and more sophisticated take on an old trojan that encrypts files on a victim's computer and then demands a payment in exchange for the keys.