Brian Prince

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed a hacker was able to breach security at the microblogging service, marking the second time this year an attacker gained administrative access via an employee’s account. According to Stone, an attacker gained unauthorized access to Twitter this week and viewed 10 individual accounts. Twitter’s initial security review found that […]

A French hacker reportedly used social engineering to get Twitter administrative access and posted screenshots of data belonging to several high-profile celebrities. The hacker, operating under the handle of Hacker Croll, posted 13 screenshots of Twitter’s admin panel. The screenshots include internal data for accounts belonging to a number of high-profile figures, including Ashton Kutcher, […]

Trend Micro is extending its data center protection strategy with a planned purchase of server and application security vendor Third Brigade. According to Trend Micro, the company is buying the business to accelerate its dynamic datacenter security strategy and to provide customers with access to critical security and compliance software and vulnerability response services. The […]

While Adobe Systems works to patch the recent zero-day bug discovered in its Adobe Reader and Acrobat products, new data from Qualys suggests many users are so behind in patching that hackers needn’t feel rushed to exploit the flaw. According to Qualys, there has been no significant reduction in the number of machines vulnerable to […]

For the past several years, every time someone at the FBI wanted to search for a name in its Investigative Data Warehouse, they could count on technology from Chiliad working in the background. Think of it as an uber Google – a search engine capable of pulling information from all of your organization’s databases. “The […]

McAfee has its eyes on the small and midsize business market with a push based on software as a service and unified threat management. The focus on SMBs follows a similar move by Symantec, which recently announced plans for an SMB-focused version of Symantec Endpoint Protection. In McAfee’s case, the company is pushing a new […]

IT is an interesting world, one where the Web is simultaneously a key driver for business and a popular gateway for attackers. With both these forces at work, it shouldn’t be surprising enterprises are starting to take application security more seriously. Statistics from a recent survey by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) found […]

Microsoft is building a small but important change into Windows 7 to help slow the spread of malware. According to Microsoft, the company is changing the way the AutoPlay feature operates to prevent it from enabling the AutoRun task for USB devices. The move, Microsoft officials said, was done in response to malware-most notably Conficker-taking […]

The Google Chrome Web browser and Microsoft Internet Explorer have found themselves at the center of a security issue that could lead to cross-site scripting attacks. Google Chrome has been updated to 1.0.154.59 to fix a security vulnerability in the handling of ChromeHTML URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) that allows an attacker to bypass the Same […]

The RSA Conference is much more vendor-driven than shows such as Black Hat and ShmooCon, but there is always room for talk about security vulnerabilities and threats in the wild. This year, discussion of the threat landscape touched on everything from browser hijacking to wireless security to attacks on VOIP (voice over IP). More than […]

Every RSA Conference has a popular buzzword or phrase. This year it was “the cloud.” In one way or another, vendors were pushing their answer to handling security in the cloud. Cisco unveiled a number of tools and services in the cloud April 21, even though a day later Cisco CEO John Chambers described the […]

The Cyber Secure Institute recently added one more number to think about when the security community hears the name Conficker-9.1 billion. That is how many dollars were lost in terms of wasted time, resources and energy as the cyber-community dealt with the worm, variants of which over the past several months have infected millions of […]