Brian Prince

First Look at Microsoft’s SQL Azure Database CTP by Brian Prince SQL Azure in the Cloud Microsoft recently made the first community technology preview of SQL Azure Database, a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server technologies, generally available last week. Migrating Databases to SQL Azure This image shows a user migrating a database […]

Security firm ScanSafe has uncovered a campaign that has compromised more than 57,000 Websites in a bid to dump gallons of malware on users’ computers. According to ScanSafe, the sites are being infected with a malicious iFrame via SQL injection. The iFrame in turn loads what ScanSafe Senior Security Researcher Mary Landesman described as a […]

A Swedish court has ordered an Internet service provider to shut down service to The Pirate Bay, a well-known site that tracked and indexed BitTorrent files. According to the Swedish newspaper SvD (Svenska Dagbladet), the CEO of ISP Black Internet said the company was told by the court that it would face fines if it […]

Cyber-crooks like Firefox and Opera. At least that’s the conclusion from new research by Purewire. According to Paul Royal, principal researcher at Purewire, who recently tracked 15 exploit kit operators from all over the globe, Mozilla Firefox and Opera were the most popular Web browsers used by exploit kit operators. Some 46 percent used either […]

Sometimes it doesn’t take an external hacker to reveal customer data. Often, it happens during the application development process itself. That is because, according to a recent survey from the Ponemon Institute, many organizations use production data during their development and testing process without having proper safeguards in place. Some of this, experts say, is […]

Symantec got its hands down in the muck Aug. 19 with a list of the “Dirtiest Web Sites of Summer 2009.” These are the worst of the worst:100 sites dirty enough to make a malware author smile. According to Symantec, the average number of threats for those on the list is a whopping 18,000 per […]

The black market economy of the cyber-world is always busy, especially in an age of massive data breaches like the ones that occurred at Heartland Payment Systems and Hannaford Brothers. According to research from Kaspersky Lab posted Aug. 17, U.S. credit cards are not worth as much as you might think. While analyzing malware, Kaspersky […]

Security researchers have uncovered a virus with a rare modus operandi-it infects applications written in the Delphi programming language at compile time. The malware, detected as W32/Induc-A by Sophos, inserts itself into the source code of any Delphi program it finds on an infected computer. It then compiles itself into a finished executable. Right now, […]

Federal law enforcement is investigating a hack that compromised computer systems at Radisson Hotels & Resorts hotels throughout the United States and Canada. Officials at Radisson, part of Carlson, revealed that its computer systems were accessed without authorization between November 2008 and May 2009. The company did not say which of its hotels was hit […]

An apparent bug in iPhone OS 3.0 allows users to sometimes get their hands on e-mail messages that are supposed to be deleted. The issue seems to affect both the iPhone and iPod Touch. In a video demonstration on YouTube, a man named Matt Janssen demonstrates how to recover e-mail messages even after they have […]

Roughly seven months after news broke of a breach at Heartland Payment Systems, 28-year-old Albert Gonzalez was indicted for cracking the company’s security. But to hear authorities tell it, Heartland wasn’t the Miami man’s only victim. Among the others are 7-Eleven and Hannaford Brothers Co. With the indictment has come some new information about the […]

It should not come as big surprise that hackers are more and more interested in social networks. Just how much however is underscored by Breach Security’s Web Hacking Incidents Database 2009 Bi-Annual Report. According to their research, social networks like Facebook and Twitter were the most targeted vertical market in the first half of 2009, […]