Brian Prince

Adobe is warning users about a critical vulnerability in versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat that is being exploited in targeted attacks. While little information has been made available about the exact nature of the vulnerability, it has been described by VUPEN Security as a memory corruption error. According to the advisory from VUPEN, the […]

IBM is developing a new, optional software technology for IBMPower Systems to help organizations increase database transaction capacity while cutting the cost and risk associated with growing systems. The new feature is called DB2 pureScale, and is slated to be ready for Power 550 Express and Power 595 in December. Developed jointly by the IBM […]

Cisco Systems is looking to extend its URL filtering controls to what it refers to as the -Dark Web’-the nebula of sites that remain uncategorized by URL filtering databases. With Cisco IronPort Web Usage Controls, the company is targeting the 80 percent of the Web it says is largely unknown to legacy URL filtering tools. […]

FBI Director Robert Mueller has apparently sworn off online banking after nearly falling victim to a phishing attack. During a speech Oct. 7 at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, Mueller recounted being “just a few clicks away from falling into a classic Internet phishing scheme.” A transcript of the speech is posted […]

Microsoft plans to release 13 security bulletins in a massive patch Tuesday update next week. Eight of the 13 bulletins are rated “critical,” and the remaining five are classified as “important.” All totaled, the bulletins cover 34 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Silverlight, Forefront, Developer Tools and SQL Server. Among the bulletins being […]

Ingres is taking a direct shot at MySQL users in its pitch for the latest version of the company’s flagship open-source database. With Ingres Database 9.3, the company has built in technology to make it easier for businesses to migrate off of MySQL, as well as from databases from Oracle, Microsoft and Sybase. To accomplish […]

New research suggests the market for data loss prevention products has some bright days ahead. In a survey sponsored by Dimension Data and performed by analyst firm IDC, 57 percent of the 400 organizations that participated in the study plan to invest in data loss prevention (DLP) during the next 12 months. The survey can […]

Authorities in the United States and Egypt have charged 100 people with participating in a sophisticated phishing ring authorities say defrauded two banks in the United States. Early today, police in cities across the United States arrested 33 of the 53 suspects named in a federal indictment in Los Angeles last week. Overseas, Egyptian authorities […]

Visa released a document this week with best practices for end-to-end encryption in a bid to help early adopters and encryption vendors while industry standards are being developed. The document, available here, is meant to give organizations something to think about as they evaluate or deploy data field encryption. Essentially a stopgap until the American […]

In an age of high-profile data breaches, database security has started to get more attention. SQL injection attacks were at the root of the breaches at Hannaford Bros. and Heartland Payment Systems, while others such as the one affecting LendingTree last year were caused by malicious insiders. All in all, the convergence of compliance requirements […]

Poisoning search engines results to trick users into visiting malicious sites is not a new tactic. But as an analysis by AVG Technologies shows, it can be very effective. Examining a rogue spyware campaign that sought to take advantage of interest in the earthquake in Samoa last week, AVG determined that it took just 24 […]

A day after reports surfaced that 10,000 Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail user credentials had been stolen and posted online, the BBC has reported seeing a list of some 20,000 e-mail accounts and passwords belonging to users of Google Gmail, AOL, Yahoo Mail, Comcast and Earthlink. In both cases, officials laid the blame for the data […]