Where the good guys go, the bad guys follow. The popularisation of social media services such as Facebook and Twitter has led to malicious links becoming commonplace.

The mantra has always been "build it and they will come."  But too often it's translated to "build it with vulnerabilities and hope they won't notice." When it comes to TrendNet's web-capable cameras, unfortunately, the world has noticed.  

Imperva's latest analysis of the hacking landscape shows that the bad guys know as much about your business as you do.

Ideological motivation has emerged as the primary driver for distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks, outstripping the previous dominant drivers of financial gain.

In response to reports citing a significant upsurge in Android malware, Google has revealed how it tries to ensure the security of Android Market, and detect malicious apps.

NEC has teamed up with US-based Internet & PC security technology company Webroot to develop mobile security technology and services for the smartphone and tablet market, to be offered both to telcos and to end users.

There’s a big hole in Australian IT spending with 15 per cent of businesses admitting that they don’t spend a red cent on disaster recovery or business continuity services. It’s even worse internationally where 22 per cent of companies spend zilch on the issue.

A number of "world-leading" policy-makers and cybersecurity experts have responded to a survey saying that an arms race is taking place in cyber space and that cybersecurity is more important than missile defence.

Imagine being able to retro-actively identify exactly which computers were affected by some piece of malware and which others they affected as the infection propagated.  

Following the 'liberation' of source code for the 2006 versions of many of its products, Symantec initially indicated that the latest versions were so different that there wasn't a problem.  Perhaps that wasn't true of pcAnywhere.

A security vendor is predicting a 23% growth in malware during 2012.

Security video specialist Axis has announced a new camera designed to operate in desert conditions, plus a ruggedised analog encoder for tough - though not quite so demanding - environments.

Security firm Bitdefender has secured a deal with the Westpac banking group to offer the bank’s customers a one-year free subscription to its Internet security package including antivirus, antispam, firewall and parental controls as well as social networking protection against malicious pages and privacy threats.

Australian businesses are becoming soft targets for malicious hackers and they lag significantly behind their US and UK counterparts in achieving compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) introduced by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), according to one security assessment company.

F5 Networks' BIG-IP Edge Client is a SSL VPN client for devices running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

An update to Adobe Reader and Acrobat addresses multiple critical vulnerabilities.

The first Patch Tuesday for 2012 brings seven bulletins from Microsoft. One was held over from December, and only one of the seven is regarded as being critical.

This month's security bulletins from Microsoft include one in an unusual category: 'security feature bypass'.

Following news of the hack of the Stratfor site, the perpetrators have released extensive information on every subscriber (paid or otherwise) of Stratfor's on-line services.

The security consultancy Stratfor has suffered an embarrassing hack.  If Anonymous is correct, the embarrassment may last some time to come.