The US government is setting out to address concerns about security in the cloud. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a draft document looking at issues such as privacy and security within cloud environments.
Maxwell Cooter | 05 Feb | Read more
Social media websites remain top when it comes to blacklisting websites according to Open DNS's annual report. The web security and filtering company has produced a report detailing some of the key findings of 2010.
Maxwell Cooter | 25 Jan | Read more
More than a third of all malware that has ever existed was created by criminal gangs in 2010 alone according to the latest PandaLabs Annual Report.
Maxwell Cooter | 07 Jan | Read more
It sounds as implausible as a Hollywood movie but allegations that the FBI was behind the creation of a 'back-door' into OpenBSD are creating a storm in the hacker community. It's a story that has everything: government secrecy, conspiracy theory and a case of mistaken identity.
Maxwell Cooter | 16 Dec | Read more
Companies instigating major virtualisation projects are struggling to cope with security. According to new research, nearly three-quarters of all organisations are concerned hypervisor privileges could lead to abuse, while nearly four out of ten organisations believe that virtual environments are more difficult to keep secure than physical ones.
Maxwell Cooter | 10 Dec | Read more
Companies are showing little interest in expanding their interest in network access control even though many are interested in such technology.
Maxwell Cooter | 04 Dec | Read more
One in five employees is putting their company's network atrisk by using non-standard smartphones in breach of their organisation's security policy.
Maxwell Cooter | 18 Nov | Read more
Companies looking to adopt cloud computing could cut their chances of being compromised by using a statistical framework to assess risk according to Runaware. Concerns about security are the main inhibitors for companies looking to adopt cloud technology, yet a simple methodology could be employed to reduce exposure said Dr Prasad Saripilli, the VP for Runaware.
Maxwell Cooter | 12 Nov | Read more
McAfee has developed an antivirus product or virtulised environments. The company has partnered with Citrix to provide a means of protecting virtual machines in the same way that it can handle physical ones.
Maxwell Cooter | 08 Oct | Read more
Security and compliance company ArcSight, which has been the subject of a takeover bid by HP, has upgraded its Enterprise Threat and Risk Management (ETRM) platform. The new version will include beefed-up ESM, the core analysis engine at the heart of the platform.
Maxwell Cooter | 21 Sep | Read more
It's not just Google who has taken the leap into consumer appliances. Just the day after the search company launched the Google TV, Cisco has announced trials of a consumer version of its TelePresence videoconferencing system according to a Reuters report. The company has also announced that TV channel ESPN will be using Telepresence to transmit World Cup football from South Africa.
Maxwell Cooter | 24 May | Read more
Years of in-fighting over the DNSSEC standard have left Internet users unnecessarily exposed to malware.
Maxwell Cooter | 12 Nov | Read more