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Google pays record $31K bounty for Chrome bugs
Google this month paid a security researcher $31,336 for reporting a trio of bugs in Chrome.
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Crowd-sourced attack data now key to web application defence, says Imperva
Imperva used this week?s Infosecurity Show in London to announce what it believes is a key innovation for its line of web application firewalls ? crowd-sourced threat data.
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Infosec 2013: SecurEnvoy falls back on fixed line to improve two-factor authentication reliability
SecurEnvoy has upgraded its SMS-based system for two-factor authentication with the ability for users to receive one-time passwords via a landline telephone call and enter them using the telephone keys.
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Infosec 2013: cyber security sector failing to attract new talent
The cyber security sector in the UK is failing to attract young people into the industry ? especially women ? according to research released this week by e-skills UK.
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Infosec 2013: There is no such thing as information security risk
There is no such thing as information security risk, according to Serge Baudot, head of information security and business continuity management at easyJet. The only risk that matters within any organisation is the risk to the bottom line.
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UK government offers SMEs £5,000 to improve their cyber security
The UK government's Technology Strategy Board has extended its Innovation Vouchers scheme to allow small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to bid for up to £5,000 from a £500,000 pot to improve their cyber security by bringing in outside expertise.
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Turing Award goes to MIT crypto experts Goldwasser and Micali
A pair of MIT professors and security researchers whose work paved the way for modern cryptography have been named winners of the 2012 A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize in Computing."
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Chrome OS runs the table at Pwnium 3
Hackers at the CanSecWest event in Vancouver couldn't break Google's latest version of Chrome OS in the company's Pwnium 3 contest, leaving the $3.14159 million (yes, that's Pi, for those keeping track at home) in prize money untouched.
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DaVinci surveillance malware distributed via zero-day Flash Player exploit
Political activists from the Middle East were targeted in attacks that exploited a previously unknown Flash Player vulnerability to install an allegedly lawful interception program designed for law enforcement use, security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab say.
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Security vendors failing to tackle mobile malware, say CISOs
Malware is still the biggest threat to mobile security, but most mobile device management (MDM) strategies tend to focus on securing the physical device in case of loss of theft, according to Peter Gibbons, head of Information Security at Network Rail.
