Brian Prince

Researchers at Sophos have uncovered a Trojan masquerading itself as a game for the Apple iPhone. The Trojan, identified by Sophos as Troj/Agent-HNY, is being spread via e-mail as an attachment dubbed Penguin.Panic.zip after the popular “Penguin Panic” game for the iPhone. Hoping to snare unsuspecting video game fans, the spam e-mails contain subject lines […]

Hackers claim to have hijacked a private e-mail account belonging to Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Palin has faced charges from critics that she uses private email accounts to conduct official state business in a bid to circumvent public information laws. According to reports, activists affiliated with the group “Anonymous” hacked […]

Piece by piece, Symantec is building out its software-as-a-service business. Symantec announced Sept. 16 the beta program for Symantec Online Remote Access. The service is part of the Symantec Protection Network, the umbrella for Symantec’s online services. The Protection Network was first unveiled in February, and includes Online Backup and Online Storage for Backup Exec. […]

Microsoft having closed on its acquisition of data warehousing vendor DATAllegro, Microsoft officials were ready Sept. 16 to start talking about their road map. Microsoft has plans to offer software based on DATAllegro’s technology in 2010, and to have CTPs (community technology previews) ready within the next 12 months. Though Microsoft officials were unwilling to […]

If a laptop, CD or smart phone is stolen, encryption can be the difference between a data breach and a close call. With so much sensitive corporate and personal information at stake, a clear encryption strategy is a vital part of data protection. Step one for developing that strategy is to understand just what data […]

The buzz about the need for virtualization security products is getting louder, with several vendors showcasing approaches to securing virtual environments at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas. VMworld kicked off Sept. 15 alongside announcements from security players such as McAfee and smaller, virtualization-focused vendors like Catbird Networks. McAfee announced McAfee Total Protection for Virtualization, […]

Data Professionals See Salaries Rise Dollars and Sense and the Data AdminBeing a database professional is not easy, but it can pay well. So says a survey of 503 members of the Independent Oracle Users Group conducted by Unisphere Research. Those surveyed included database administrators and IT managers as well as database developers and analysts. […]

The alleged theft of trade secrets from Intel by a former employee offers yet another reminder of the importance of monitoring and controlling access to corporate data. According to reports, ex-Intel engineer Biswamohan Pani has been accused by the FBI of stealing trade secrets from Intel while he secretly worked for the company’s chief rival, […]

Talk of HTTPS cookie hijacking is pushing its way toward the front of the line of security concerns with the release of details regarding an automated tool dubbed the CookieMonster. The Python-based tool is the brainchild of reverse engineer Mike Perry, who spoke about HTTPS cookie hijacking at the Defcon 16 security conference in Las […]

The quickening adoption of software-as-a-service must be validating for a company like MessageLabs, which has had a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model since its inception in 1999. But in a crowded space a company is only as good as its ability to differentiate itself, and to that end MessageLabs plans to expand its offerings and unify […]