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Good device and online safety behavior

With more devices in everyone’s hands after the holidays, children are sure to take their cues from parents and older siblings. Ultimately children will become frequent …

Need for integrated approach to security in industrial control systems

New Pike Research examines the changing dynamics in the automation systems market, including technology, regulatory and business trends. It also shows how these market …

First free credit monitoring service

Credit Karma became the first company to offer free credit monitoring to all U.S. consumers. The new feature will monitor a consumer’s credit file on a daily basis and …

Security solution on Amazon Web Services

Check Point announced its security gateways are now available to customers through Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling organizations to extend their security to the cloud with …

100m users exposed in hacks of popular Chinese sites

Chinese Internet users are getting a taste of what users in the Western world have already become accustomed to: changing their online passwords and fearing that their credit …

Open source computing platform Apache Hadoop 1.0 released

The Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Hadoop 1.0, the open source software framework for scalable, distributed computing. The project’s latest release marks a …

Online scam susceptibility of American consumers

PC Tools, in collaboration with the Ponemon Institute, announced the findings of its online scam susceptibility study of 1,858 American consumers. The results of the survey …

Pastebin.com downed by DDoS attack

Pastebin.com is just one among the many places where users can upload vast amounts of text on the Internet for others to see, but has lately risen in prominence due to it …

Risk Control 6.0 released

Skybox Security announced Risk Control 6.0, featuring enhancements that help understand cyber security situations and act quickly to minimize risks that can lead to …

SpyEye Trojan post transaction fraud schemes attack banks

Many of us tend to spend a little more than we intend during the holiday season and, with all the transactions hitting our accounts, it can be hard to keep track. During the …

Spyware pushed via Google ads

Not every ad you are served by Google is good for you, warns Zscaler’s Julien Sobrier, as he spotted a suspicious looking ad for a free Flash Video player in his Google …

Israeli credit card hack creates more opportunities

In a recent data breach incident, a Saudi hacker defaced a prominent sports news web site in Israel and linked its front page to a file exposing the details of many credit …

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