Big thinkers converge on small town for Day-Con 2013
Day-Con, Dayton Ohio’s annual hacker conference, celebrated its 7th year last month with a completely re-imagined format: limited seating, invitation only, and …
Ubuntu 13.10 released, improves on cloud setup and management
Canonical released the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud environments. Ubuntu 13.10 delivers the latest and best version of OpenStack, and is the fastest, most …
Webroot enhances mobile threat protection
Webroot released a new edition of Webroot SecureAnywhere Business – Mobile Protection to ensure mobile devices and company data stay secure. As more organizations face …
avast! 2014 released
AVAST Software launched avast! 2014 – the latest version of the antivirus solution used by a quarter of all protected PCs worldwide. The new version improves …
Video: Malware Management Framework
You can throw lots of time and money at scanning your systems for unknown malware, but the reality is that you will only identify a small portion of the bad stuff. Changing …
Apple’s iCloud protocols cracked and analyzed
Smartphones carry a lot of sensitive data that in theory should be accessible only to their owners. In practice, a lot of it can be exfiltrated from the devices and from the …
How CISOs get executive buy-in for security budgets
Wisegate released a new report that shares how CISOs successfully gain executive buy-in on security budgets and strategically manage them. Most CISOs face significant …
The Internet of Things: Vulns, botnets and detection
Does the Internet of Things scare you? It probably should. This DerbyCon video discusses why embedded device security is laughably bad, handling vendor notification, and …
DDoS attack size accelerating rapidly
Arbor Networks released data on global DDoS attack trends for the first three quarters of 2013. The data shows that DDoS continues to be a global threat, with alarming …
Free Android security app from Malwarebytes
Malwarebytes launched a free mobile security application for Android devices. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Mobile, available on
Digital ship pirates: Researchers crack vessel tracking system
In the maritime business, Automated Identification Systems (AIS) are a big deal. They supplement information received by the marine radar system, are used for a wide variety …
Lessons learned from sinkholing the ZeroAccess botnet
ZeroAccess (or Sirefef) is a piece of malware that is very adept at hiding its existence from users, and brings in huge sums of money to its masters by performing click-fraud …
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