Trustwave, has opened a new Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Manila, Philippines, to expand its footprint in Asia Pacific.

Mozilla is taking steps to limit the risk of powerful subordinate Certificate Authority (CA) certificates falling into the hands of attackers and potentially being used to issue rogue certificates for use in SSL snooping attacks.

Fifty per cent of users, including employees, are still using simple passwords that can be easily guessed.

Turktrust, the Turkish certificate authority (CA) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthorized certificate for google.com, claims that the bad Google certificate was not used for dishonest purposes.

Point-of-sale payment processing devices for credit and debit cards are proving to be rich targets for cybercriminals due to lax security controls, particularly among small businesses, according to a report from Trustwave.

Security distributor, Tudor, has signed a distribution deal with Trustwave.

Visa Inc. last week sent a fraud alert to banks and payment processors warning them to look out for a "large batch settlement fraud scheme" involving a merchant account in East Europe.

As the new year gets underway, more of the big fish in the security pond are gobbling up smaller ones known for their expertise in specialized fields.

Managed security services have been growing in popularity over the past several years, and the latest task enterprises are looking to offload to an outside provider is security information management.