Security

Tue, February 07, 2012 - In late January, the European Commission published a proposal "on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data."

Tue, February 07, 2012 - The FBI Tuesday reaffirmed its rule that all cloud products sold to to U.S. law enforcement agencies must comply with the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) security requirements.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - Adobe plans to tackle Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) in its ongoing work to "sandbox" its popular Flash Player within browsers, Adobe's head of security said today.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - The Federal Trade Commission this week said it sent letters to six unidentified mobile applications makers warning them that their background screening apps may be violating federal statutes.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky has cancelled plans for the firm to go public, announcing his intention to buy back a 20 percent stake sold to a private equity investor a year ago.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - Two-thirds of all DDoS attacks globally were motivated by politics, ideology, nihilism or vandalism.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - Japan named as primary source of DDoS attack traffic for Q4 2011

Tue, February 07, 2012 - An in-depth study of data-breach problems last year where hackers infiltrated 312 businesses to grab gobs of mainly customer payment-card information found the primary way they got in was through third-party vendor remote-access applications or VPN for systems maintenance.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - The hacker group had earlier released emails between a hacker and a person said to be a Symantec representative