Latest Security Articles

• 22 February 2012

• News: FCC chairman calls on ISPs to adopt new security measures

  U.S. Internet service providers should take new steps to protect subscribers against cyberattacks, including notifying customers when their computers are compromised, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday.

• News: Expert: Microsoft has itself to blame in browser-privacy flap

  Microsoft is pointing fingers at Google and Facebook for circumventing the privacy mechanism baked into Internet Explorer, but the real problem lies in its own failure to implement the P3P privacy standard well, an expert says.

• News: Researcher: 200,000 Windows PCs vulnerable to pcAnywhere hijacking

  As many as 200,000 systems connected to the Internet could be hijacked by hackers exploiting bugs in Symantec's pcAnywhere, including up to 5,000 point-of-sale programs that collect credit card data, a researcher said today.

• News: Juniper buys web security company for $80 million

  Juniper said this week it has acquired Mykonos Software, a provider of website and web application security software, for $80 million.

• News: Threadneedle systems catch £95m 'rogue trader'

  Asset manager Threadneedle, based in the City of London, has said its systems successfully caught a junior rogue employee who attempted to make a suspected $150 million (£95 million) rogue trade.

• News: Group files FTC complaint against Google for privacy changes

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should force Google to halt its plan to consolidate user identities across its services and fine the company for violating an October privacy settlement with the agency, privacy group the Center for Digital Democracy said in a complaint filed Wednesday.

• News: A10 CEO spells out application delivery controller advantage and next steps

  A10 has built a solid business in the application delivery controller (ADC) market, but its platform also supports IPv6 migration and many cloud requirements, nicely positioning the company for the future. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently sat down with A10 founder and CEO Lee Chen for a company update. Chen, who was co-founder of Foundry Networks, says A10 already has 1,700 customers and more than 7,000 devices deployed.

• News: IBM makes QRadar security event management product more intelligent

  IBM is widely expanding the intelligence gathering functions available to its security-event management (SEM) product, QRadar Security Intelligence Platform, as well as designing a virtual-appliance version of it that works on the VMware platform.

• News: Industry on Cybersecurity Act of 2012: Not so fast

  While the government may be in a rush to get the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 enacted, many in the industry are saying: not so fast.

• News: Google's New Privacy Policy: How to Stay Off the Grid

  The Electronic Frontier Foundation is recommending that privacy conscious users delete their Google Web history before the search giant's new unified privacy policy kicks in. Google Web history is Google's online log of all your search activity, and some browsing history.

• News: Researcher releases exploit code that can allegedly crash pcAnywhere

  Exploit code targeting a newly identified vulnerability in Symantec's pcAnywhere computer remote control product has been published on the Internet, exposing its users to possible attacks that disrupt the software's functionality.

• News: Group files FTC complaint against Google for privacy changes

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should force Google to halt its plan to consolidate user identities across its services and fine the company for violating an October privacy settlement with the agency, privacy group the Center for Digital Democracy said in a complaint filed Wednesday.

• News: RSA Conference 2012 sneak peek: cloud, big data, and mobile

  There are fewer topics stirring bigger buzz among information security professionals than big data, cloud security, and mobile. So it's no surprise that those topics will dominate the discussions this year at the RSA Conference 2012.

• News: AppSense DataLocker app makes Dropbox suitable for the enterprise

  Virtualisation provider AppSense is making its first move into cloud-based data storage with the launch of a new product called DataLocker, which enables users to encrypt sensitive information in their Dropbox account.

• News: Researchers break video Captcha security using robot vision

  Researchers at Stanford University have discovered a way to break state-of-the-security video Captchas of the sort deployed by companies such as NuCaptcha with a 90 percent success rate.

• News: Pirate Bay faces possible UK blockade following High Court ruling

  Infamous file-sharing site The Pirate Bay could be blocked by internet service providers in the UK, following a High Court ruling that the site breaches copyright laws.

• News: Box becomes first third-party app on Good's platform

  Good Technology is opening its developer program to anyone and announcing that Box is the first available third-party application based on Good's platform.

• 21 February 2012

• News: The ultimate tips box

  Got problems with insider threats? Need help securing your wireless LAN because of employees bringing their own devices on to your network? Know how to protect your Android device?

• News: Qualys CEO: We're ready to take the company public

  Qualys, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based security firm specializing in vulnerability assessment and management, is poised for an initial public offering (IPO) later this year.

• News: Google, Microsoft butt heads over IE privacy skirting

  Google has countered Microsoft's contention that it's skirting Internet Explorer's privacy protection, saying it's 'impractical' to comply with IE's rules.

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