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Anonymous, LulzSec bring bragging rights back to hacking, CTO says

Hactivist groups such as <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061311-turkey-arrests-32-anonymous-hackers.html">Anonymous</a> and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/062211-lulzsec-ousted.html">LulzSec</a> hearken back to earlier days when Web attacks were done for bragging rights, not profits, says the new CTO of incident-response, forensics company Mandiant.

Tim Greene | 24 Jun | Read more

Digital forensics company lands strategic investments

Incident-response forensics company Mandiant has received strategic investments from two separate investment firms with the aim of expanding the company's field staff that responds to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> breaches as well as investing more in research and development.

Tim Greene | 24 Jun | Read more

Gartner: new security demands arising for virtualisation, cloud computing

The rush toward virtualisation of internal enterprise computing resources and cloud computing can have many advantages, such as server consolidation, but it's largely outracing traditional security and identity management practices. That's leaving huge gaps, a sense of chaos and questions about where security products and services should be applied in the world of multi-vendor virtual-machine (VM) hypervisors.

Ellen Messmer | 24 Jun | Read more

Home port for security departments?

In June of 2003, we ran a <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/218166/all-over-the-map">long article about organizational structures</a>. We titled it "All Over the Map," which pretty much tells you what we concluded about how security was handled at the time: a bit like a ship with no home port, passing from executive to executive. The article had examples of security variously reporting to Human Resources, Facilities, Operations, Legal, and IT. Responsibility without authority was a theme.

Derek Slater | 23 Jun | Read more

Hack Attacks Escalating? Here's a Reality Check

Hack attacks from online thugs such as Anonymous and LulzSec appear to signal a hacker Armageddon. Not only has Sony been relentlessly targeted by hackers this year so has the Central Intelligence Agency, Sega, PBS.com, the U.K. government, and dozens of other high-profile company and government agency Web sites.

Ed Oswald | 23 Jun | Read more

Ponemon study: Cyber attacks more frequent, severe

Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and severe, and the vast majority of businesses have suffered at least one <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032811-mcafee-underground.html">data breach</a> in the past year, a Ponemon Institute survey says.

Tim Greene | 22 Jun | Read more