Brian Prince

In a letter to two U.S. congressmen (PDF), Facebook reaffirmed its plans to enable application developers to get access to user phone and address information. Facebook initially implemented the idea in January, but scuttled the change after a few days due to public outcry. At the time, Facebook Director of Developer Relations Douglas Purdy stated […]

Google has acquired security firm Zynamics for its software analysis tools. Founded in 2004 by CEO Halvar Flake (Thomas Dullien), Zynamics builds reverse-engineering tools for offensive and defensive security that help find security vulnerabilities within applications. According to Zynamics, its tools can be used to help understand security updates, identify FOSS (free and open-source software) […]

The second of two men charged in connection with hacking AT&T’s Website last year and swiping e-mail addresses belonging to Apple iPad 3G users has been released on bail. Andrew Auernheimer was released Feb. 28 on $50,000 bail. His co-defendant, Daniel Spitler, made bail in January. The two were charged in January with stealing the […]

A new survey from Deloitte showed many organizations are not taking a consistent, company-wide approach to mining, reporting and analyzing risk data. The survey, which fielded responses from 900 professionals, focused on the challenges facing data-management and analytics programs used by businesses to make strategic decisions based on risk. More than a third (37.4 percent) […]

Analysts at Gartner are predicting 2011 will be an inflection point for the data-warehousing market. As data-warehouse platforms evolve, they will embrace analytics and support different information types; the result will be a new era of data warehousing, according to Gartner, which just released a report, titled “The State of Data Warehousing in 2011.” The […]

According to researchers at IDC, smartphone vendors shipped more than 100 million devices during the fourth quarter of 2010, almost double the number delivered during the same period in 2009. For enterprises, this means there is no shortage of new devices for them to manage and secure. But where enterprises see potential IT headaches, security […]

The man-in-the-middle has a son, and he is here to bully your Web browser. This is the message of Imperva, who is highlighting the presence of boy-in-the-browser attacks. The company has seen a resurgence in this type of attack, which works by redirecting traffic. “It re-routes it in a very smart way, so that the […]

Google met with officials in Israel Feb. 21 to discuss the company’s plans to bring Google Street View to the country, and privacy was on the agenda. According to an official statement, an Israeli ministerial team headed by Minister Dan Meridor met with Google to discuss “various aspects of Google Street View, which is due […]

Researchers at Trusteer have uncovered a new banking Trojan that takes control of the online banking sessions of its victims and keeps them open despite user attempts to logout. The Windows Trojan, dubbed OddJob, was actually discovered a few months ago being used by cyber-thieves in Eastern Europe to attack customers around the world, including […]

The controversial Westboro Baptist Church is in the middle of a row with Anonymous. The Westboro Baptist Church, of Topeka, Kan., has claimed it is being targeted by Anonymous-something some involved in Anonymous say is false. Known for its virulent anti-homosexual stance, Westboro Baptist Church claims Anonymous threatened in a letter posted on AnonNews.org to […]

The past week was a busy one in IT security, with the annual RSA Conference sharing time in the headlines with a controversial cyber-security bill and other news. The RSA Conference, held in San Francisco from Feb. 14-18, drew a large crowd of vendors, security researchers and IT professionals. Among the key themes this year […]

The 20th annual RSA Conference in San Francisco came to a close Feb. 18, ending a week of product announcements, keynotes and educational sessions that produced their share of news. This year’s hot topics: cloud computing and cyber-war. The conference included a new session track about cloud computing, and the topic was the subject of […]