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A botnet is outfitting its army of compromised computers with a SQL injection attack tool to hack Web sites, researchers at SecureWorks have discovered. According to SecureWorks, the Asprox botnet, once used solely to send out phishing e-mails, is pushing the tool out to systems in its network via a binary with the file name […]

CA has entered into a reseller agreement with software company Eurekify in an attempt to add broader role-based identity management offerings to its portfolio in a crowded market. As part of the deal, CA will resell Eurekify Enterprise Role Manager and provide support and services. The move, according to Burton Group analyst Kevin Kampman, gives […]

Microsoft made some waves in the security industry when Windows Live OneCare made its debut two years ago. Roughly six months after the release of Version 2.0, Microsoft has its eyes on the small and midsize business market and building out its anti-malware capabilities. Amy Barzdukas, senior director for Windows Live OneCare, sat down with […]

Microsoft swatted a bug in its Jet Database Engine that attackers were exploiting. Microsoft officials confirmed in March that attackers were using a flaw affecting the Jet 4.0 Database Engine to target Windows users. The company described the attacks at the time as “very limited.” Still, the patch for Jet DB will have the widest […]

Vertica Systems is taking its columnar database into the cloud, joining a number of other vendors that have made similar moves. But the market for on-demand database services remains nascent, industry observers said. Vertica Analytic Database Cloud Edition is on-demand version of the company’s grid-enabled columnar database, hosted on Amazon.com’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). The […]

Security researcher Aviv Raff is marking Israel’s 60-year anniversary in his own way-by embedding in his personal blog proof-of-concept code for a zero-day bug targeting Internet Explorer Versions 7 and 8b and challenging readers to find it. It’s a treasure hunt of sorts, which Raff said is in keeping with an Israeli Independence Day tradition. […]

Verdasys and Fidelis Security Systems are integrating their technologies to push a coordinated approach to data leak prevention that spans the network and an organization’s endpoints. Verdasys makes Digital Guardian, host-based DLP tool that discovers, classifies, monitors and controls data. On the network side of DLP is Fidelis’ Extrusion Prevention System. The combination of the […]

Yahoo and McAfee are teaming up to play traffic cop in the name of improving the security of Web searches. The companies are launching a beta program for SearchScan, a new feature by Yahoo Search, powered by McAfee’s SiteAdvisor technology. The feature alerts users of sites with spam, spyware, adware and other malicious software that […]

More than a half million computers have been infected by a Trojan spreading through bogus MP3 files on popular peer-to-peer networks in the past several days, according to researchers at McAfee’s Avert Labs. McAfee first reported noticing a spike in the discovery of a Trojan known as Downloader-UA.h on May 6. The malware was added […]

Embarcadero Technologies is looking to expand its appeal to application developers with the acquisition of CodeGear, a division of Borland Software. The $23 million move is a play by Embarcadero, which specializes in database design tools, to meet application and database developers on middle ground with products that appeal to both groups. CodeGear serves a […]

Sourcefire is building on the management and automation features of its flagship Sourcefire 3D System as the company looks to win over more customers to its intrusion prevention technology. With Sourcefire 3D System 4.8, the company has built out its intrusion prevention capabilities with technology meant to automatically configure rules to monitor traffic on standard […]

Data migration projects may seem straightforward, but they often hit snags for a variety of reasons-not the least of which is data quality. Bad data can break new applications or systems, according to experts, and in order to avoid pitfalls associated with it, it’s necessary to loop in business managers to help IT staffers understand […]