The PCI Security Standards Council, which establishes requirements for the payment-card industry, Tuesday formally launched its payment-application security program.
Ellen Messmer |
17 Apr |
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Two separate security surveys this week on network access control reach similar conclusions: Employees have immoderate access rights, and management should face up to the challenge of reining in out-of-control access without sacrificing productivity gains.
Ellen Messmer |
07 Feb |
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On Wednesday the US federal government's desktop security mandate kicks in, requiring government agencies to support standard secure configurations for Windows XP and Vista operating systems.
Ellen Messmer |
30 Jan |
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Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Elder is head of the Air Force "Cyber Command," a newly created organization operated under the 8th Air Force headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Elder describes the purpose and evolution of the Cyber Command.
Ellen Messmer |
24 Jan |
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If this year will be remembered for high-profile data breaches, then what troubles are in store for 2008?
Ellen Messmer |
14 Nov |
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The Web site of the Bank of India has been hacked and is now an unwitting dispenser of an enormous amount of malware code to visitors, including rootkits and trojans, according to Sunbelt Software, which advises not currently visiting the Bankofindia.com site.
Ellen Messmer |
04 Sep |
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Symantec Tuesday unveiled the 2008 editions of its Norton AntiVirus and Internet Security desktop protection products, adding what it calls "threat interceptor" defense to prevent execution of malicious code enabled through a drive-by download.
Ellen Messmer |
29 Aug |
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A honeypot is simply a "closely monitored computing resource that we want to be probed, attacked or compromised," Niels Provos and Thorsten Holz tell us in their new book, Virtual Honeypots.
Ellen Messmer |
13 Aug |
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Fidelity National Information Services, a financial-processing company, has said a senior-level database administrator at one of its subsidiaries stole 2.3 million consumer records containing credit card, bank account and other personal information.
Ellen Messmer |
04 Jul |
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PayPal has 133 million customers that use its Internet-based money-transfer service, which handled US$37 billion in transactions last year. Michael Barrett, who is CISO at the eBay subsidiary, recently spoke with Ellen Messmer about new approaches PayPal is taking to combat online fraud.
Ellen Messmer |
15 Feb |
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The traditional signature-based method to detect viruses and other malware is increasingly seen as an insufficient defense given the rapid pace at which attackers are churning out virus and spyware variants. All of which raises the question: What's next?
Ellen Messmer |
26 Apr |
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Deployment of products that transform physical servers into "virtual machines" has resulted in nothing short of a data centre revolution. But virtualization of everything from operating systems to applications increasingly has critics asking: Where's the security?
Ellen Messmer |
19 Apr |
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Is the bell tolling for desktop antivirus technology?
Ellen Messmer |
10 Apr |
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In a recent survey of 83 corporate IT managers, 28 acknowledged having had to cope with a data breach, and half of those respondents reported significant related costs.
Ellen Messmer |
12 Apr |
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Becoming the chief information security officer (CISO) of a corporation makes you a strategic IT advisor to business management, the chief information officer, and the rest of the information technology staff. Just as no company is the same as another, the job of CISO -- or alternately, "chief security officer," which might include physical security as well -- isn't either. The four security professionals who share their priorities with us make it clear there's nothing cookie-cutter about the top IT security job.
Ellen Messmer |
19 Feb |
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