Fahmida Y. Rashid

Hackers can take advantage of a critical vulnerability in Apple OS X to take over Macs, warned security researchers on Nov. 8. The vulnerability is in Leopard, an older verson of the Macintosh operating system. Despite the release of Snow Leopard more than a year ago, Leopard still accounts for approximately a third of the […]

Startup Greenliant Systems rolled out its first SATA-based embedded flash solid-state storage drives for the embedded applications market on Nov. 9. The NANDrive GLS85LS product family is based on the company’s own SATA NAND controllers and comes in six different sizes, including 2-, 4-, 8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-GB of storage, the company said. With […]

Riverbed Technology acquired government service provider Global Protocols, strengthening its optimization portfolio for satellite networks, the company said. The acquisition was announced and closed on Nov. 9. Riverbed declined to divulge any financial specifics for the deal. Riverbed partnered with Global Protocols in 2008 to provide government organizations a joint offering based on the Riverbed […]

Security principles will remain fundamentally the same across virtualized data centers and private cloud environments, but how security services are provisioned and delivered will have to change, said Gartner analysts on Nov. 8. Most organizations will first virtualize servers in the data center as a “steppingstone” before shifting to the private cloud, according to Thomas […]

The release candidate build of Microsoft’s Forefront Endpoint Protection client software is now available for download, the software giant said on Nov. 8. Microsoft said the new client security product is on track to be released to manufacturing before the end of the year. Originally slated for the first half of 2010, Microsoft had pushed […]

Toshiba unveiled a new line of super-slim solid state drives that it claims is the thinnest drive with the most storage capacity available, on Nov. 8. Designed specifically for devices in which space is a premium, such as laptops, netbooks and tablet PCs, the Blade X-gale series are available in three storage sizes, at 64GB, […]

A federal appeals court has rejected McAfee’s appeal to overturn the verdict in Finjan Software’s patent infringement suit. On Nov. 4, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld the finding that Secure Computing’s Webwasher security line infringed on Finjan’s security patents and as a result Secure Computing owed damages. […]

Web administrators who host their domains on GoDaddy should check their source code again for rogue code that downloads malware, according to a security research firm. Sucuri Security updated its Oct. 30 post warning about the latest malware attacks on GoDaddy-hosted sites with another note on Nov. 3. The research company was investigating reports of […]

A Microsoft study bears out what environmentally-conscious companies have hoped for all along: cloud computing has the potential to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions by 30 percent or more. Large data centers, like those run by tech giants Microsoft and Google, benefit from economies of scale and operational efficiencies, according to the study. Small […]

Kaspersky Lab bundled eight security products into an Anti-Malware Protection System to provide seamless security from endpoint and mobile devices all the way to the gateway. A mix of new and enhanced software, the Anti-Malware Protection System was announced on Nov. 2. The new Kaspersky products include the Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway to scan […]

PayPal patched a security hole in its iPhone application that could let hackers steal user passwords and access their financial accounts, according to the Wall Street Journal. The vulnerability, where the app wasn’t confirming the authenticity of the PayPal Web site, was uncovered by digital forensics and security research firm viaForensics. Not validating the site’s […]

Hosted VOIP provider M5 Networks announced on Nov. 3 that it has acquired Chicago-based Geckotech for $8 million. The combined companies will handle what company officials describe as the “exploding demand” for business-grade hosted VOIP services. Geckotech’s CEO, Josh Robbins, will join M5 Networks as vice president of business development. Kerrin Parker, M5 Networks’ current […]