Fahmida Y. Rashid

SAN FRANCISCO€”Malware and hacking were the most commonly used attack vectors in data breaches that occurred in 2011, according to a sneak peek of the 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report from Verizon. Verizon released a preliminary version of its 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report Feb. 29. The preliminary report contains “a few snapshots” from the […]

Law enforcement authorities arrested 25 individuals allegedly members of the Anonymous hacktivist collective as part of an international operation, according to Interpol. The operation began in mid-February after police traced several high-profile online attacks originating from Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Spain, Interpol said Feb. 28. The attackers allegedly targeted Websites belonging to the Ministry of […]

SAN FRANCISCO€”Big data is popping up in many discussions at this year’s RSA Conference here: both as a way to solve some of the most pressing security problems as well as a reason why individual privacy is at risk. The proliferation of devices and services means more and more information is being collected and made […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The sheer volume of attacks against enterprises and governments in 2011 showed that security is critical, but the security industry is “in serious risk of failing” to protect organizations, said Arthur Coviello, executive chairman of RSA, during his opening keynote address at the 2012 RSA Conference. Signature-based and perimeter-heavy defenses no longer […]

F5 Networks: Access Policy Manager F5 Networks combined mobile device management products from AirWatch, MobileIron, SilverbackMDM and Zenprise into F5’s mobile access platform. Enterprises can reduce the costs associated with mobility deployment and management while gaining control. Full VPN and route control capabilities are also extended to users trying to access applications behind the corporate […]

WikiLeaks is back in the news again. This time the whistle-blower Website has released its first set of internal emails stolen from Stratfor back in December. The links to the 167 messages are allegedly just the first installment of the “more than 5 million emails” dating from July 2004 to December 2011, WikiLeaks said in […]

Thousands of security professionals are planning to descend upon the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week to discuss security issues, ranging from challenges posed by mobile products, to hacktivists, to social engineering, to advanced persistent threats and the cloud. There is something for everyone at the RSA Conference, which begins Feb. 27 at the […]

Zettaset unveiled SHadoop, a new security initiative that would help organizations manage and control employee access to data in Hadoop environments. SHadoop would integrate security functions that would allow administrators to implement role-based access control within the company’s Hadoop Orchestrator platform, Zettaset said Feb. 22. With the new tools, administrators can create policies that specify […]

Yet another company is stepping into the mobile-device-management arena to help organizations make sense of the influx of employee-owned devices into the corporate environment. Aruba ClearPass is designed to simplify and automate the process of securely provisioning mobile devices onto an enterprise network, Aruba Networks said Feb. 21. The ClearPass Policy Manager software provides administrators […]

Novell is adding support for Apple Macs to its device-management suite to help administrators manage heterogeneous systems within the enterprise. With ZENWorks 11 Support Pack 2, administrators can automate patch updates for Macs, automatically deploy software and patches, and manage each system, regardless of the operating system it is running, according to Novell. The company […]

Social media and mobile devices may be putting consumers at greater risk for identity fraud, according to a Feb. 22 report on identity fraud. More than 11.6 million adults were a victim of identity fraud in the United States in 2011, an increase of 13 percent since 2010, according to the Javelin Strategy and Research […]

The White House has proposed a “bill of rights” to protect consumer privacy online. The framework that President Obama is advocating allows users to easily tell Internet companies with one click whether they want their online activity to be tracked. The U.S. Commerce Department will work with companies and privacy advocates to develop “enforceable” privacy […]