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iPads, iPhones and Android smartphones will be among the major targets for cybercriminals in the coming year, McAfee has warned. That's because the consumerization of technology is leaving enterprise IT unprepared for the onslaught of personal devices in the corporate environment. Expect cybercrimin...
Eying what could be a substantial business advantage, enterprises are racing to make their workforces mobile. Salesforce.com's ongoing love affair with the Apple iPad extends beyond equipping its executives with the device to singing its praises at every opportunity. Mercedes-Benz distributors are g...
Skills develop with practice and repetition. It's true of anything, from playing the piano to driving a car. In any endeavor, the way to get better is to practice. Attempt the activity again and again, learning from mistakes made along the way. "Practice makes perfect" -- that's not a way we usual...
Things took an interesting turn in the aftermath of Cablegate, which saw 250,000 documents, many of them sensitive, put on the open Web by WikiLeaks. Julian Assange, the founder of the site, has been charged by Swedish police with a sex crime; the U.S. government is seeking to try Assange, who's cur...
Hackers struck at the Gawker blog network's servers over the weekend, stealing more than 1 million rows of data, including cracked passwords. Gawker has been scurrying to revamp security on its servers as a result, and has put up an FAQ page on this issue. Meanwhile, Twitter has been hit with a wave...
Cyberattacks this week by supporters of Wikileaks on the home sites of Visa and MasterCard may have been designed to grab headlines rather than actually disrupt the companies' financial operations. The wave of electronic assaults, referred to as "Operation Payback" by the activists mounting the atta...
The security community was horrified when it learned about Stuxnet, the worm designed to eat into industrial control systems, or SCADA systems, that was purportedly targeted at Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor. Not only was the worm highly sophisticated, but it also targeted a SCADA system from Siemen...
Wikileaks, the controversial site that has caused a worldwide diplomatic furor by dumping nearly 250,000 documents covering private United States diplomatic communications, has reportedly moved to the Amazon cloud. The release of the documents, collectively dubbed "Cablegate," has sparked outrage. W...
The end of Thanksgiving means the beginning of holiday shopping season, and as usual, a great deal of that shopping will be done online. But while online shopping is easy and convenient, it's also fraught with dangers. Sure, it's easy to search the Web for the best price on that laptop or video gami...
China Telecom has reportedly denied accusations by a U.S. government organization that it was behind the rerouting of 15 percent of the world's Web traffic to servers in China for a short period earlier this year. The Chinese state-owned carrier was pinpointed by the U.S.-China Economic and Security...
I have a confession to make: I'm a tokenization junky. I live and breathe tokenization, and have been for a few years now. Since I'm serving as lead chair on the PCI Security Standards Council's Tokenization Working Group, it's my job to know everything about tokenization that's going on in the indu...
Managing a data center is more complicated than ever with the growing sophistication and interconnectedness of enterprise applications, networks and now private and public cloud resources. The challenges created by these interwoven infrastructures are difficult to overcome without the right tools. O...
As we should probably realize by now, not all tasks are created equal -- especially when it comes to making mistakes. For most of the things we do -- from brushing our teeth to typing an email -- making a mistake is usually relatively innocuous. Sure, we might have to clean a bit of the toothpaste ...
Facebook has unveiled new measures to keep members secure when they log into its site. One is a temporary password; another is letting people sign out of Facebook remotely. Finally, it will also now regularly prompt members to update their security information. "Our new features are aimed at protect...
Microsoft's vice president of trustworthy computing, Scott Charney, has put the call out for a collective, coordinated approach to protecting the public from, among many other threats, botnets. The worldwide Internet community would do well to apply a public health approach to battling the viruses a...
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