Brian Prince

As the economy takes body blow after body blow, companies are struggling to do more with less. When it comes to security, however, the cost of not doing enough can be immeasurable. So, just how low can companies go? For many companies, slashed budgets have forced a reassessment of priorities as well as some creative […]

Users of pirated software have a new headache to worry about. For the second time in less than two weeks, malware targeting Mac computers has surfaced on the Web. According to an advisory from Intego, OSX.Trojan.iServices.B is a variant of the iServices Trojan the company found last week targeting pirated copies of iWork ’09. This […]

Looking to make life a little easier for data architects, CA has made a move to tighten integration between data modeling and data profiling tools. With the newly released CA ERwin Data Modeler Suite, the company has packaged the latest version of its data modeling product with a new data profiling tool using technology from […]

With infections from the Conficker worm still spreading, the good news is that there are ways to guard against it and clean your machine if you are infected. The saga that is the Conficker worm began in earnest in November, when Microsoft reported a variant of the worm targeted a flaw in the Windows Server […]

Predicting security trends is not an exact science. A prime case in point is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who predicted at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January of 2004 that spam would be “solved” within two years. Fast forward to 2009 – spam remains a nuisance to corporate networks and consumers alike. […]

Fortinet made its first major play into the database security last year with a release centered on vulnerability assessment. Now the company has added database monitoring capabilities, essentially squaring up more directly against vendors such as Guardium, Lumigent and Application Security. The announcement comes roughly four months after the company hit the market with FortiDB-1000B, […]

A new version of QuickTime plugs security holes that leave users open to remote code execution attacks by hackers. In Version 7.6, Apple covered seven such flaws that could be exploited by malicious media files or other techniques. The upgrade is available for Mac OS X v10.4.9 – v10.4.11 and Mac OS X v10.5 or […]

It should come as little surprise that spammers are taking advantage of interest in Barack Obama, who is slated to be officially sworn in as the United State’s 44th president today. In the past few days, security vendors have reported spam with links to malicious Web sites. Clicking on the link will take users to […]

Payments processor Heartland Payment Systems disclosed Jan. 20 that it was hit with a malware attack in 2009 that may have resulted in a large cache of financial data being compromised. The company said it launched an investigation after officials at Visa and MasterCard reported suspicious activity surrounding processed card transactions. In response, Heartland enlisted […]

Encryption vendor BitArmor is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to protecting data. The vendor announced Jan. 15 it would refund the purchase price of its DataControl software to customers who experience a data breach. DataControl combines full disk encryption for laptops and persistent file encryption using Smart Tag technology to […]

It seems you just can’t keep a good worm down. Nearly two months after Microsoft first warned of the Conficker worm targeting a vulnerability in its Server service, the number of infected computers is growing rapidly. While there is some dispute about the number of infections-F-Secure puts it at approximately 9 million, though others dispute […]

Symantec has enhanced its Endpoint Encryption product to improve management and provide protection against cold-boot attacks. The product has always been aimed at the needs of Windows users, and is still focused on protecting data on Windows hard drives. However, in Version 7.0, Symantec has added support for clients not managed by Active Directory. The […]