Brian Prince

Watchfire has released a new vulnerability scanning and reporting tool aimed at finding security flaws early in the software development lifecycle. Appscan Enterprise 5 features Web-based scanning and on-demand training designed to simplify application security for developers, Watchfire officials said. The product can be installed on a central server, making it easy for companies with […]

Database auditing vendor Lumigent Technologies announced the availability Feb. 20 of a new product that will leverage IBM DB2 across numerous systems. Lumigent Audit DB enables IBM customers to both audit the DB2 data server and use DB2 as an enterprise-wide repository for Audit DB audit data from systems such as Oracle databases, Sybase ASE […]

The Stop & Shop Supermarket chain announced Feb. 17 that thieves had tampered with check-out lane computers and had stolen account and personal identification numbers from customers credit and debit cards at two of its stores in Rhode Island. /zimages/4/28571.gifA man pleads guilty in the DuPont theft case. Click here to read more. Officials at […]

A bug was recently uncovered in Firefox that could allow a malicious Web site to appear authentic. The bug affects the way Firefox handles writing to the “location.hostname” DOM property, according to a posting by security researcher Michal Zalewski on the security mailing list Full Disclosure. The vulnerability could potentially allow a malicious Web site […]

Hackers have painted a bulls eye on Microsoft Word and Office programs yet again, and this time they seem to have hit their mark. The company issued a warning Wednesday stating there had been limited, targeted zero-day attacks exploiting a vulnerability that could allow code to be remotely inserted into a computer. The announcement came […]

The Storm worm that wreaked havoc in January has opened up a new front in its war against users—instant messaging. The Trojan virus that was responsible for countless spam e-mails sent around the globe has spawned a new variant that is using AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger to proliferate. The worm attacks […]

Researchers at Symantec and the Indiana University School of Informatics have uncovered a new threat to broadband users. The attack, nicknamed “Drive-by Pharming”, uses JavaScript on a Web site created by a hacker to reconfigure broadband routers. Once the user clicks on a link, the malicious JavaScript code changes the DNS settings on the users […]

Oracle has released a new in-memory relational database designed to meet the faster response time needs of enterprises. Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Release 7 is the first major version of the TimesTen database developed internally by Oracle since the company purchased TimesTen, a startup firm that specialized in data management, in 2005. The new release […]

Recent research by ID Analytics reveals that New York, California and Nevada have the highest rates of identity theft in the country. The findings were released Feb. 14 by the San Diego-based company, which helps its clients spot the possibility of identity theft and determine the next best steps to verify an identity. The research […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning a massive test in March of 2008 to determine how the nation will respond to a major cyber-attack. The test, called Cyber Storm 2, is the second of its kind, following a week-long simulation in 2006 that involved 115 private international and domestic companies and organizations. Last […]

Researchers at McAfee said malware is hitting mobile device users around the world at increasing rates. The study, which was performed by Informa Telecoms and Media and sponsored by McAfee, found 83 percent of mobile operators surveyed have been hit by mobile device infections, and that nearly half of the operators that have experienced mobile […]

The FBI still cant seem to keep track of all its laptop computers. According to a new report by the Office of the Inspector General, two and three laptops each month are lost or stolen from the bureau—and the FBI cannot determine in many cases whether the computers contained classified data. “We recognize that in […]