The word from Symantec is that supporters of the world's most famous, if loosely organized, hacker group got hacked themselves. The word from the alleged victim, Anonymous, is a ferocious denial that it ever happened.
Taylor Armerding | 07 Mar | Read more
"Big Data" is all the rage.
Taylor Armerding | 29 Feb | Read more
Data security breaches happen daily in too many places at once to keep count. But what constitutes a huge breach versus a small one? For some perspective, we take a look at 15 of the biggest incidents in recent memory. Helping us out are security practitioners from a variety of industries, including more than a dozen members of <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=38412&mostPopular=&trk=tyah">LinkedIn's Information Security Community</a>, who provided nominations for the list.
Taylor Armerding | 17 Feb | Read more
Trusteer, a Boston-based in-browser web security vendor, issued a warning this week about the return "with a vengeance" of "Shylock," <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/693171/a-short-history-of-crimeware">a polymorphic financial malware variant</a> the company discovered last September that is now showing up again in end-user machines.
Taylor Armerding | 17 Feb | Read more
A 20-year-old hacker who goes by the Internet name <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/694298/unemployed-romanian-hacker-accused-of-breaking-into-nasa">TinKode was arrested recently by Romanian police</a> after he bragged about hacking into Pentagon and NASA computer systems.
Taylor Armerding | 16 Feb | Read more
They are well organized. They pay close attention to product quality, working hard to make it effective and scalable. They are all about customer service, providing after-sales support. They even solicit the help of their customers in product development.
Taylor Armerding | 02 Feb | Read more
The good news is that Collective Intelligence (CI), the engine for Internet security created in 2006 by <a href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/1581/one_of_the_worst_quarters_ever_for_security">Panda Security's malware research laboratory</a>, recently processed its 200 millionth malware file via the cloud. That's also the bad news.
Taylor Armerding | 12 Nov | Read more
Everybody in IT knows it is a dangerous world out there, filled with an endless variety of cyber attacks aimed at compromising and taking advantage of security flaws.
Taylor Armerding | 22 Oct | Read more
<a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/690855/facebook-adds-protection-against-malicious-links">Facebook just got safer</a>, according to a press release last week from the social networking giant and the Internet security firm Websense.
Taylor Armerding | 07 Oct | Read more