Security

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

Mon, February 06, 2012 - Adobe has launched a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox that uses sandboxing technology to prevent exploits

Mon, February 06, 2012 - A federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts could test the question of whether individuals who leave their wireless networks unsecured can be held liable if someone uses the network to illegally download copyrighted content.

Mon, February 06, 2012 - Businesses might long for the relatively simple policies for corporate-owned mobile devices of the BlackBerry age, but today's realities are forcing them to prepare their networks for a continued onslaught of authorized and unauthorized access from a slew of consumer devices, led by iPhones and iPads.

Mon, February 06, 2012 - U.K.-based cash-transport firm G4S is trusting the security of Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service to keep safe the application that tracks where the money is as it travels to and from customers and the company's vaults in armored trucks.

Mon, February 06, 2012 - Anyone wanting to buy mobile-device management (MDM) software to manage Apple iOS devices will find they need a special digital certificate from Apple to activate it, a requirement that doesn't apply to the same MDM software that would be used to manage Google Android devices, for instance.

Mon, February 06, 2012 - Contrary to reports, the Kelihos botnet has not crawled out of the grave, Microsoft said last week. But the company acknowledged that a new botnet is being assembled using a variant of the original malware.