Security

Fri, February 10, 2012 - The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today said it monitored the private email accounts of nine agency whistleblowers starting in 2010 to determine whether any of them leaked confidential information to the public.

Fri, February 10, 2012 - Cybercriminals are increasingly using drive-by downloads to distribute malware without end users knowing something bad has just landed on their machine--until it's too late. Here are six ways IT departments can protect end users from the productivity sink and potential data loss that drive-by downloads create.

Fri, February 10, 2012 - If you took one look at Google Wallet and said to yourself, "There's no way that's completely secure," it turns out you were right.

Fri, February 10, 2012 - Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader Page Petry answers questions about certifications, winning a promotion and more.

Fri, February 10, 2012 - A former Internal Revenue Service employee this week got 105 months in prison for pleading guilty to theft of government property and aggravated identity theft in a case where the guy tried to get away with nearly $8 million in fraudulent tax returns.

Fri, February 10, 2012 - Google says that both its Web and Chromium security reward programs were a big success

Fri, February 10, 2012 - A new security tool lets enterprise IT groups set access and share policies for employees, including mobile users, who are working with the online Google Apps suite.

Fri, February 10, 2012 - Security company Trusteer has discovered a 'factory outlet' selling user logins for Facebook and Twitter harvested as a sideline during attempts to steal online bank credentials.

Thu, February 09, 2012 - Hacker mischiefs calling themselves SwaggSec penetrated the computers at Foxconn, which assembles about 40 percent of the consumer electronics products in the world, and stole data that it posted to the Internet -- apparently just for laughs.

Thu, February 09, 2012 - The open-source development model is helping Citadel's creators patch bugs and add features faster

Thu, February 09, 2012 - arge numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications.

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Anyone who makes a habit of wandering around in cyberspace should print this TrendLabs infographic, posted Wednesday, and keep it close at hand. This colorful web poster contains info on Internet bad guys, and helps people avoid getting scammed, hacked, or hurt by malware.

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Other governments and some companies are using social media to address dissent, a DARPA program officer said

Wed, February 08, 2012 - The issuing of subordinate root certificates to companies, so they can snoop on SSL-encrypted traffic, is a common industry practice

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.