Adobe today patched a critical vulnerability in the Windows utility used to download the company's two most popular products, Adobe Reader and Flash Player.

Intel was targeted by "sophisticated" attacks in January, about the same time that Google reported its network had been breached, allegedly by Chinese hackers.

Google's YouTube will drop support for Microsoft's nearly-nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 in just over two weeks, the popular video site has announced.

Is this the future of online banking? US company IronKey has come up with a USB drive that can be used to access accounts virtually without involving the operating system or applications that cause so many of today's security problems.

In what appears to be a warning shot, the Federal Trade Commission has sent out letters to about 100 companies, informing them about sensitive and confidential data from their networks being found on publicly available on peer-to-peer networks.

A survey of 259 information security professionals shows Cisco gaining clout with them as a network-security provider, according to research firm TheInfoPro.

You've been hit by a social network scam on Twitter and don't know how to warn your contacts? Mary Landesman of ScanSafe offers four simple, clear steps to help protect your contacts.

The previous Undercover columnist lamented the state of security hiring. Here's a response from the other side of the desk.

Secure software coding is improving, but working code analysis and mitigation techniques into the development lifecycle continues to be an issue, says coding expert Chris Wysopal.

A blaze set by angry workers at an electronics factory in Mexico last Friday was the work of a disgruntled former employee out for vengeance against electronics giant Foxconn, according to the company.