Brian Prince

It should come as no surprise that at a security conference called ‘Black Hat’ there would be a fair amount of shenanigans going on over the WLAN network. According to Aruba Networks, which provided the Wi-Fi network at the conference last month in Las Vegas, attackers were up to their usual tricks. The company tracked […]

Vertica Systems has enhanced its column database with a new data storing and processing architecture designed to improve performance. The company has dubbed the new architecture FlexStore. With it, customers can organize different parts of the database in different ways to achieve maximum performance and compression, Dave Menninger, vice president of marketing and product management […]

The Pentagon is reviewing its policies toward social networking sites amid network security and other concerns. According to reports, U.S. officials have ordered a review of the threats and benefits of using Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and others. The review is slated to be completed by the end of September. News of the […]

A 25-year-old New Jersey man is the state’s first person to be arrested for domain name theft. Daniel Goncalves of Union Township was busted July 30 on charges that he stole the domain name P2P.com three years ago. After the theft, Goncalves reportedly went on eBay and sold the domain to NBA player Mark Madsen, […]

A few weeks ago, Juniper Networks announced that they would not be giving a talk on ATM security vulnerabilities at the DEFCON 17 conference in Las Vegas. Perhaps then it is slightly ironic that attendees at that very conference would end up uncovering ATM card skimming scams. According to reports, attendees at the conference noticed […]

Acting cyber-security chief Melissa Hathaway plans to step down later in August, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Hathaway, the acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, will reportedly resign Aug. 21 for personal reasons. She was once considered a frontrunner for the cyber-security coordinator position […]

WatchGuard Technologies has bought fellow security vendor BorderWare Technologies to build its e-mail and Web security business. The move, made for an undisclosed sum, will be officially announced Aug. 4. According to officials at WatchGuard, the acquisition expands the company’s footprint beyond its traditional network security and UTM (unified threat management) appliances. “BorderWare certainly brings […]

The iPhone SMS attack demonstrated this week at Black Hat shined a legitimate spotlight on something that has historically been the subject of more than a little FUD – smartphone security. For the past few years, security companies have tried to sell enterprises on the idea that they needed to be worried about smartphone security. […]

Apple has fixed the iPhone vulnerability highlighted at the Black Hat security conference yesterday. The update plugged a memory corruption issue in the decoding of SMS messages that could be exploited to remotely execute code on the phone. The vulnerability was put in the spotlight after a presentation by researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner. […]

A British hacker’s latest attempt to block extradition to the United Stateshas failed. The British High Court ruled today that the case of Gary McKinnon, who stands accused of hacking NASA and other U.S.federal agencies, should go forward. It is the latest twist in a case that has stretched on for years. If McKinnon is […]

Adobe issued a patch to cover several security holes in its Flash Player software July 30, including a memory corruption issue that has been targeted by hackers. All together, the update fixes 12 vulnerabilities. The most critical among them is the memory corruption bug, which is believed to have been exploited by hackers since early […]

When the Network Solutions breach was reported last week, the usual buzz about whether or not the company was PCI-compliant began almost immediately. Similar talk surrounded the situations with Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford Bros. and just about every other data breach that has happened since the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was […]