Three charged with Comcast.net hijacking
Three men were charged on Thursday for last year’s redirecting of traffic of Comcast’s website to a site where a shout-out to fellow hackers was featured: …
Cloud computing security benefits, risks and recommendations
How can businesses and governments get the obvious benefits of cloud computing without putting their organization at risk? ENISA (the European Network and Information Security …
Poisoned Google search results
Google has been and is very helpful – no doubt about it. But it seems to me that they should try to do something about the poisoned search results problem, otherwise …
World’s first wireless USB external hard drive
Imation announced its Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive that provides 1.5TB of storage. With a fast Wireless USB data transfer rate of up to 15MBs/second, the product can back up …
A look at Securitybyte & OWASP AppSec Asia Conference 2009
India’s largest security conference – Securitybyte & OWASP AppSec Asia Conference 2009 – closed its doors after a very successful four days. Help Net …
Biggest threats to federal systems and critical infrastructure
E-Government initiatives aimed at modernizing federal information systems are fraught with risk, according to a new study sponsored by CA and conducted by the Ponemon …
Are 64-bit Windows inherently safer?
Microsoft has discovered a way to create the illusion that Windows 7 is more secure than its predecessors simply because it has a 64-bit version of the OS. As Joe Faulhaber of …
NSA on cyber attacks and Microsoft collaboration
Government Computer News reports that at a hearing entitled “Cybersecurity: Preventing Terrorist Attacks and Protecting Privacy in Cyberspace”, held two days ago …
New books: ModSecurity, Snow Leopard, social Web applications
ModSecurity Handbook features an in-depth coverage of ModSecurity, an open source web application firewall. The main highlights are the following: Step-by-step instructions …
Vulnerability in IBM SolidDB memory caching software
Core Security disclosed a vulnerability that could affect large numbers of organizations using IBM’s SolidDB relational database management system, as well as those …
Two arrested for Zbot Trojan
Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have made Europe’s first arrests in the battle against the ZeuS or Zbot Trojan which threatened …
Employee data breach at MassMutual
Internetnews reports that the latest data breach to be discovered happened to MassMutual, a Massachussets-based insurance company. One of the company’s employees …
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