Fahmida Y. Rashid

GoDaddy is getting some heat for supporting a controversial anti-piracy bill being debated in Washington, D.C. A thread on Reddit, a popular social news-sharing site, calling for people to transfer their domains away from GoDaddy to some other registrar has spurred customers into calling for a boycott. A small business owner with the username “selfprodigy” […]

The group behind the Koobface is back, and they are reinventing themselves to take advantage of pay-per-click advertising, according to Trend Micro. The Koobface developers updated their botnet framework with a “sophisticated” traffic-direction system (TDS) that handles traffic referenced to their affiliate sites, Trend Micro researchers reported Dec. 19. They’ve also added components to help […]

The Internet expanded by 2.3 percent in the third quarter over the second quarter, VeriSign reported in its latest report on domain registrations. There were 4.9 million more domains at the end of September than there had been in June, the report found. Almost 220 million domain names were registered across all top-level domains at […]

In Memoriam: 17 Tech Pioneers Who Died in 2011 Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, passed away Oct. 5 after an eight-year battle against pancreatic cancer. The visionary who turned around Apple, teetering on bankruptcy in 1996, was responsible for changing how regular users viewed technology. He transformed computing with the […]

SQL Injection Arguably one of the easier attacks to prevent, SQL injection is also the most common software bug in applications. Attackers enter database commands into an online form to directly access the database and siphon away data. Developers need to build in logic to handle invalid input to block this type of attack. Operating […]

Juniper Networks has slapped Palo Alto Networks with a lawsuit accusing the network security company of infringing six of its patents relating to firewall technology. In the lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Wilmington, Del., Dec. 19, Juniper said while the technology used in its next-generation firewalls was invented by the founders of Palo […]

All Data Types Are Vulnerable to Insider Theft While trade secrets are the most common type of data stolen by insiders, at 52 percent, the Symantec report found that 30 percent of breaches involve business information such as billing invoices, price lists and other administrative data. Other types of data include source code, proprietary software, […]

Quest Software has acquired Bitkoo, an access-control technology provider, to enhance its identity and access management portfolio. The acquisition, which Quest officially announced Dec. 19, has already closed and financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. With its latest acquisition, Quest will be able to provide customers with a more centralized approach for handling […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was breached a year ago by Chinese hackers targeting four employees working on Asia-related policy. The hackers may have had access to the lobbying organization’s network for more than a year before they were blocked and removed in May 2010, two unidentified sources told The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21. […]

Hacktivist collective Anonymous has announced a new campaign for the holiday season: to steal from the rich. Dubbed “DestructiveSec,” the collective said it will steal virtual credit cards from banks and give “back to the people who had everything taken,” according to a statement posted on text-sharing site Pastebin on Dec. 12. The statement did […]

The pre-trial hearing against the Army analyst who leaked classified government documents to WikiLeaks has revealed glaring security flaws in how the military secured its computer networks. The evidence being heard in the preliminary hearing against Pvt. Bradley Manning centered around documents that were recovered from the Army intelligence analyst’s computer. Portions of the hearings […]

An apparent threat to hack into voting systems and disrupt the vote has the Iowa Republican Party on edge, according to the Associated Press. The state’s Republican Party is boosting the security of the computer systems it will be using Jan. 3 for the first caucus in the 2012 presidential campaign, AP reported Dec. 19. […]