Brian Prince

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a speech Jan. 21 took a strong stance in favor of promoting cyber-security partnerships and ending Internet censorship, but stopped short of using harsh language against China in connection with the recent cyber-attacks reported by Google. China has been at the center of accusations of attacks on Google, […]

Microsoft issued an emergency fix Jan. 21 to patch the Internet Explorer vulnerability at the center of a spate of cyber-attacks against Google, Adobe Systems and dozens of other companies. The update actually addresses a total of eight vulnerabilities in IE, the most serious of which can be exploited for remote code execution. The flaw […]

IBM today announced it has agreed to acquire National Interest Security Company, LLC (NISC) to bolster its advanced analytics business as it takes aim at the public sector. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, NISC’s bread and butter is providing IT, information management and management and technology consulting services for the […]

Microsoft will release an out-of-band patch Jan. 21 to fix the Internet Explorer vulnerability at the center of recent attacks on Google and other enterprises. According to Microsoft, the patch is slated to be ready around 1 p.m. EST. If all goes according to plan, the patch will close a hole that has prompted France […]

A new report from Arbor Networks is a case of good news/bad news for service providers. The good news is that the size of distributed denial of service attacks hitting their infrastructures did not increase as much between third quarter of 2008 and the third quarter of 2009 as it had in previous years. The […]

Microsoft announced Jan. 19 that SQL Server 2008 Release 2 will be ready by May. SQL Server 2008 R2 is currently in the community technology preview phase. The most recent CTP was released in November. Since the first CTP in August, there have been more than 150,000 downloads of the database, Microsoft said in the […]

Microsoft plans to release an out-of-band patch to plug the zero-day security hole exploited recently in attacks on Google and other companies. George Stathakopoulos, general manager of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Security group, announced that Microsoft would offer a timeline for the patch Jan. 20. The company’s move follows news that France and Germany are encouraging […]

Embedded database vendor McObject is making a play to appeal to Java developers with the creation of a new interface for its ExtremeDB product. With its JNI (Java Native Interface) for ExtremeDB, announced Jan. 18, McObject is looking to deliver an in-memory database for the Java community capable of running at the speed of compiled […]

An association of journalists based in Beijing said reporters have recently had their Google Gmail accounts hijacked. In a statement, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) stopped short of accusing the Chinese government or any other entity of taking part in the hijacking, but warned members to be mindful of security. “Foreign correspondents in […]

France and Germany have advised their citizens to ditch Internet Explorer in the wake of reports that an IE zero-day bug was involved in the massive cyber-attack against Google and other companies. Officials in both countries issued warnings in the past few days telling users to consider switching from Internet Explorer to other Web browsers […]

Google has fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google Orkut a security researcher said could be used to steal cookies and other information. Nir Goldshlager, who also recently uncovered vulnerabilities affecting Google Calendar and Twitter, told eWEEK the problem was due to an input validation error. “An attacker will exploit the vulnerability if a user […]

Attack code targeting the Internet Explorer vulnerability used to hit Google and other companies has hit the Web. According to McAfee, researchers have seen references to the code-which exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer-on mailing lists and have confirmed that the code was published on at least one Website. The code was used […]