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Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff The phrase “mobile malware”–how cybersecurity researchers describe the small but growing number of nasty programs designed to infect smartphones–is quickly becoming synonymous with a more specific term: “Android malware.”read more

Around 65 percent of IT pros say a DDoS costs their organization $240,000 in lost revenue per day of the attack, and one-fifth say it would mean a loss of $1.2 million per day, new survey finds read more

SMBs should focus on 'a risk-based approach to threat management,' says researcher By Taylor Armerding, CSO Big business -- at least a significant percentage of it -- has apparently heeded the decades-long mantra from information security experts, and invested enough in security to make it difficult, expensive and risky for cyber criminals to attack them.read more

End-users are at a crossroads: Either figure out a solid bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy or give up control of network security. Think about the health-care industry, a popular vertical market among resellers. Hospitals, for example, are dealing with physicians and staff accessing patient records from personal smartphones, tablets and notebooks. That's not a recipe for success if those devices are not provisioned onto the network and integrated into proper workflows.read more

By Don Seiffert Changes expected to become law in coming months would make high-tech companies that deal with healthcare data - including those in the fields of biometrics, healthcare IT and even cloud hosting services that have healthcare organizations as clients - liable for data breaches under the federal HIPAA statute. read more