RAID tower with hardware encryption
Addonics announced a family of Cipher Raid Towers with AES 256-bit full disk hardware encryption, a solution for applications that require reliable storage with redundancy and …
Week in review: Mac OS X Trojan, Bredolab shutdown and Firefox add-on for hijacking online accounts
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: Firefox extension makes social network ID spoofing trivial “When it …
Privacy and cleaning tool CCleaner 3.0 released
CCleaner is a system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet …
One in five card holders use birth date as PIN
Remembering passwords may seem the biggest problem you have when managing your e-mail or social network account, but that’s only because you don’t really believe …
Obama Administration gets a “B” for cybersecurity
The Electronic Privacy Information Center released its annual Privacy Report Card for the Obama Administration and – when compared to last year’s results – …
A peek into Google’s anti-malware operation
Google goes to great lengths to secure its users from threats lurking on the Web, because a half-hearted effort would soon drive them out of business. But, during his …
Microsoft contemplating SSL for Bing
HTTP session hijacking as a possibility and tools to execute it have been around for more than half a decade, but it took an easy-to-use Firefox add-on like Firesheep to point …
Telstra’s blunder leads to massive data leak
It is yet unknown if it was a human or computer error that made Australian telecommunications and company Telstra send out letters containing personal information (name, phone …
New PCI standards completed, tokenization still in question
The PCI Security Standards Council released version 2.0 of the PCI DSS and PA-DSS, designed to provide greater clarity and flexibility to facilitate improved understanding of …
One-time picture passcodes strengthen logins
Confident ImageShield is a cloud-based, multifactor authentication service that creates one-time passcodes by prompting users to correctly identify pictures from a dynamic …
RSA Conference 2011 Innovation Sandbox call for entries
RSA Conference announced that its annual Innovation Sandbox program has opened a call for submissions for the “Most Innovative Company at RSA Conference 2011. Kicking …
New 0-day flaw in Flash Player exploited in the wild?
Bad news just keep piling on Adobe – it looks like there is a new zero-day vulnerability in their Flash Player that is being exploited in the wild. Its existence is …