Angela Moscoritolo

Apple has issued security updates for its Safari 5 web browser and iOS mobile operating system to address dozens of vulnerabilities.

By leveraging virtualisation technology, organisations can achieve better control and visibility in the cloud, an information security leader said during Tuesday's opening keynote at the 2011 RSA Conference in San Francisco.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has zeroed in on two Vietnamese foreign exchange students believed to be part of an international criminal operation that has duped U.S. retailers out of millions of dollars.

Microsoft is again at odds with a Google security researcher over what the software giant believes was the premature release of vulnerability information.

The well-publicised Wikileaks release of information was preceded by a 'mass distributed denial-of-service attack' yesterday.

Adobe has issued an emergency patch to address a critical flaw in Reader and Acrobat

Facebook fixed a privacy glitch on its website this week that could have been abused to obtain a user's full name and photo by entering an incorrect password, a researcher said on Wednesday.

On Wednesday Apple issued updates for its iOS mobile operating system to fix a vulnerability being widely used to jailbreak the latest iPhone.

A critical flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that was disclosed last week at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas could allow an attacker to compromise a user's system.

VeriSign and rival Comodo are at odds over whether the process by which users can access VeriSign SSL customer account constitutes a vulnerability.