Brian Prince

With more and more SAP systems getting connected to the Web, the security landscape for many organizations is changing. Just how much-and what those changes mean-will be highlighted at the upcoming Black Hat DC conference by Mariano Nu??ez Di Croce, director of research and development for Onapsis. “If we think about the common goals and […]

SAP announced Jan. 12 it will acquire a chunk of SECUDE’s security business in order to bolster its identity management capabilities. The deal, made for an undisclosed sum, brings the security software, identity and access management software and other related assets of SECUDE into the SAP portfolio. In particular, the deal is focused on SECUDE’s […]

A popular Chinese online marketplace has removed 50,000 Apple iTunes accounts being offered on its Website following a controversy that erupted last week. The decision by Taobao follows a Jan. 6 report by the Global Times that revealed the accounts were available for between 1 and 200 yuan, which is equivalent to roughly 15 cents […]

Any holiday cheer created by the decline in spam is likely to soon disappear-if it hasn’t already. Driven by the infamous Rustock botnet, spam has begun to tick upward again. Before Christmas, Rustock was accountable for as much as 44 billion spam e-mails per day, according to Paul Wood, MessageLabs senior intelligence analyst for Symantec […]

Microsoft issued two security bulletins to fix three Windows vulnerabilities, getting Patch Tuesday off to a slow start in 2011. Only one of the bulletins is rated “critical.” That bulletin, MS11-002, covers two vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Data Access Components. The first of the bugs exists in the way MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components) validates third-party […]

New research from MarkMonitor revealed just how much traffic Websites selling counterfeit and pirated content can generate. In a study, MarkMonitor searched the Web for sites believed to be offering counterfeit and pirated digital content tied to 22 well-known brands. The results were narrowed down to include 43 unique sites tied to digital piracy and […]

The loosely-affiliated cyber-group ‘Anonymous’ has been tied to the compromise of the Fine Gael Website, according to reports. The attack took place Jan. 9, and compromised some 2,000 of user accounts. According to reports, the information included phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other information. One of the largest political parties in Ireland, Fine Gael said […]

Vasco Data Security International announced today it has acquired Internet trust services specialist DigiNotar. The deal was completed for $12.9 million (USD), and is part of Vasco’s plans to expand the company’s offerings. Founded in 1998, DigiNotar is an official Dutch CA (certification authority) capable of issuing, validating and registering certificates of Dutch nationals and […]

The first week of 2011 was a busy one in IT security news. It was a week that saw an acquisition by Dell, talk of trusted online identities and reports of a subpoena for Twitter. The Twitter subpoena came to light at the end of the week when it was revealed a federal judge had […]

A federal court has ordered Twitter to turn over details of accounts tied to several WikiLeaks supporters as part of the government’s investigation into the whistle-blower site. The U.S. Department of Justice obtained a subpoena for the microblogging site Dec. 14 requesting records going back to Nov. 1, 2009, that are “relevant and material to […]

Roughly 50,000 active iTunes accounts are reportedly being sold online for as little as 15 cents. According to China’s Global Times newspaper, the accounts are being sold through taobao.com, a popular Chinese-language online store, for between 1 and 200 yuan-the equivalent of between 15 cents (USD) and $30 (USD). A reporter for the newspaper tested […]

Talk of private and public partnerships for Internet security are a common refrain, and the calls were heard yet again Jan. 7 when federal officials announced plans for a new office within the U.S. Department of Commerce to coordinate federal efforts to support the creation of a trusted online identity ecosystem. Taking the concept of […]