Trending Security News Security news stories this week focused on smartphone security and GPS tracking; our Security Development Conference in DC; and a report on security technology trends with a few stories also covering malware stats and cyber-attacks. Here are the security news stories and two blog...

Trending Security News Security news stories this week continue to validate the importance of cybersecurity skills in the marketplace and FEMA released a new National Preparedness Report providing insights on the state of national critical infrastructure protection. Here are some of the security news...

Trending Security News Security news stories last week reported the House passed the CISPA bill; CNET reports Mac security ten years behind Microsoft; and infosecurity ran a story about the GAO that testified on Capitol Hill reporting there were 42,887 cybersecurity incidents last year. Here are some...

Security News Security news stories this week covered CISPA, a cybersecurity bill that continues to draw fire from privacy groups: some experts weigh the pros while others say the bill is too vague as written and predict it will be tabled. Also in the news Anonymous claims Pastebin censorship and creates...

Trending Security News Security news stories this week highlighted data breaches, tips on computer security, cybersecurity and online safety patterns and practices, and analysis in support and criticism of Cyber Intelligence Sharing And Protection Act (CISPA). Here’s our top news stories and blog...

Trending Security News Security news stories this week covered a failed attempt by Anonymous to bring down the Internet; latest malware stats for Macs; new government investments in understanding big data trends and building new cybercrime defenses; and eight UK universities who recognize excellence...

Last week the White House released its National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security fact sheet. I found this to be a very important step forward in addressing one of the most complex challenges facing the United States, as well as, governments around the world. The strategy identifies twin goals...

Trending Security News The week ended with some ruffled feathers as Twitter announced it would allow some content in certain countries to be censored. The New York Times headlined its coverage as “ Twitter Announces Micro-Censorship Policy ” while the Mercury News reported that “...

A recent blog post I wrote entitled Determining the Geolocation of Systems Infected with Malware , focused on some of the interesting changes in regional malware infection rates that occurred when we started using IP geolocation in the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv11) . Figure...

Trending Security News This week included the release of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) volume 11, which included some focused research to put “zero-day” exploits in context.  Dark Reading captured the essence of the research with the headline New Microsoft Data Puts Zero-Day Threat...

Trending Security News The week ended on a high note with news that Microsoft had successfully completed its civil action in the Rustock botnet case and had passed along all of its evidence to the FBI for possible criminal investigation. CNET led the coverage with its Microsoft hands Rustock botnet case...

Trending Security News Sometimes the juxtaposition of stories you read is kind of interesting. Over at Network World, Tim Greene authored an article Bot army being assembled, awaiting orders . While CNET News reported Heidi Klum the 'most dangerous' celeb on the Net . It appears as if Klum , a model...

Trending Security News DigiNotar continued to reverberate through the industry this week. Companies scrambled to block and eliminate potentially compromised certificates. Meanwhile security experts took time to ponder what the event meant for security going forward. This led to headlines that included...

Trending Security News The big security news this week focused on the security breach of Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar, a subsidiary of Chicago-based Vasco Data Security. This significance of the event was underscored when it was announced that one of the certificates affected by the breach was...

Trending Security News This week security news stories focused on the rise of rapidly changing social engineered malware spread through mail attachments designed to infect your computer. You may have received these suspicious often poorly written emails before, asking you to open an attached form that...

Trending Security News Probably the most widely discussed and interesting story in security news was the follow-on activity from McAfee’s disclosures last week of “Operation Shady Rat.”   As we noted previously , Vanity Fair called it an “unprecedented cyber-espionage campaign and intellectual property...

Trending Security News An eventful week with plenty coming out of the Black Hat conference, the Microsoft Blue Hat prize , publication of the EWI Cybersecurity Summit Report , and more, covered below. Black Hat USA 2011 With Black Hat USA 2011 running this week there were plenty of stories about cyber...

Jeff here, bringing you a bit of overview and analysis of the trending security news from this week and links to some blogs, papers and media that you might have missed, but shouldn’t.  Lots of grist for the mill this week because of RSA Conference 2011 . Trending Security News Collective Defense...