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This last few weeks has been kind of amazing as I've watched companies like Oracle and Cisco, which are well regarded for brilliant moves, seem to suddenly act as if they were naked and wanted to run with scissors. Then, when I was convinced that I'd seen the worst, Sony decided to piss off the open...
Microsoft has warned owners of Windows Phone 7 devices who installed its delayed NoDo software update with a certain third-party tool that they won't be able to download its latest security update, the 7392 build. The NoDo update, officially titled the 7390 update, had been delayed repeatedly and is...
Today's business has come to rely on mobility. Employees take their laptops home, work on tablets and collaborate anywhere via the Web. Unfortunately, these productivity advancements have paved the way for new cyber-vulnerabilities against an organization's private data and intellectual property. Ca...
Hackers are reportedly attempting to sell 2.2 million credit card numbers stolen from the PlayStation Network database. Sony earlier said customers' personal data was encrypted; however, the company could not rule out the possibility that hackers might have accessed it. By Thursday, security researc...
The FBI has requested and received a preliminary injunction from a U.S. district judge to continuing issuing "stop" commands to the zombie machines infected with the Coreflood botnet. It is an essential step that is part of the agency's dramatic takedown of the botnet's command-and-control system ea...
Although security breaches make the headlines regularly and Washington has plans to upgrade the security of the United States' national infrastructure, up-and-coming IT security companies are having difficulty securing investment funds. The U.S. Defense Department plans to spend $500 million on rese...
You've gotta love social networking. It lets us make zillions of "friends" all over the world, it's making corporations scramble to meet customer requirements, and it's made Mark Zuckerberg and a few other people very, very rich. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are among those other people enriched by...
Facebook has introduced a number of security improvements aimed at better safeguarding users' privacy. These enhancements came a day after Sophos published an open letter asking the site to tighten up its security. By all accounts, Sophos was not impressed. Not that Facebook hastily revamped its co...
In the past month or so, we've been inundated with announcements by browser makers of the latest versions of their products. Google, Microsoft, the Mozilla Foundation and Opera have all unveiled their latest and greatest browsers. Most of these companies unveiled full versions of their products afte...
The United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have hammered the Coreflood botnet, which its owners used to conduct cyberfraud on a massive scale. They have seized five command and control servers and 29 domain names registered in the United States, obtained a tempor...
It seems that every time we turn around, another major security breach has occurred. The latest was the data breach at Epsilon, which manages customer databases and provides third-party email marketing services to 2,500 corporate clients, including some of America's biggest firms. That breach has l...
The state of Web security has never been pretty, and a new report from Symantec discussing current and future threats only highlights just how risky the Internet environment has become. The daily volume of Web-based attacks increased an eye-popping 93 percent from 2009 to 2010, the report says -- ...
A federal grand jury has subpoenaed Pandora to produce documents in what could be an industry-wide investigation of smartphone apps. In an SEC filing, Pandora said the subpoena was served early 2011, and it was told it wasn't a specific target of the probe. However, it believes similar subpoenas hav...
IT security giant RSA is still trying to figure out exactly what was stolen from its systems, more than two weeks after announcing that they had been breached. The company detailed how the attackers broke into its systems, in a blog post by Uri Rivner, its head of new technologies, consumer identity...
There is no denying that mobile devices like tablets are changing the way we communicate, work and share information on the go -- it's the next logical step in the "post-PC" world. In addition to an increase in cloud-based services, there is a surge in multiple mobile devices -- with consumers not o...
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