McAfee: ‘Amateur’ malware not used in Google attacks A misstep by McAfee security researchers apparently helped confuse the security research community about the hackers who targeted Google and many other major corporations in cyber attacks last year. On Tuesday, McAfee disclosed that its initial report on the attacks, which it branded Operation Aurora, had mistakenly linked several files to the attacks that had nothing to do with Aurora after all.

Cyber Attacks Reported By 100% Of Executives Seventy-seven percent of C-level executives in a 115-person survey conducted in the U.K. say their organization has experienced a data breach at some point and all of them report attacks targeting corporate data in the past 12 months. These findings come from a study released on Wednesday by IBM, a company that sells data protection services, and The Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research organization.

Hackers Not Playing Games With Gaming Sites Cybersecurity is a serious issue for any online business, but for online gaming companies it’s doubly so.

Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Revealed A group of over 30 national and international computer security groups on Tuesday released a list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors as part of an effort to make the custom software business more accountable. For the U.S., where recent cyber attacks against Google and dozens of other companies have underscored the porousness of computer networks, this is a welcome development. …