Fahmida Y. Rashid

The FBI and its international partners have charged six individuals with conducting a sophisticated click-fraud scheme that netted them millions of dollars, the federal agency said. The cyber-ring infected about 4 million computers in 100 countries with malware and pocketed at least $14 million by manipulating online advertisements, the FBI said Nov. 9. Six Estonian […]

NEW YORK-Organizations planning to use Hadoop to aggregate and analyze data from multiple sources need to consider potential security issues beforehand, according to IT professionals at the Hadoop World conference here. Hadoop makes it easier for organizations to get a handle on the large volumes of data being generated each day, but can also create […]

Fedora’s latest release, Verne, features several cloud and virtualization enhancements and capabilities designed to make it easier to build large cloud deployments. The new virtualization and cloud features in Fedora 16 allow administrators and users to launch, run and manage cloud environments, according to the project announcement on Nov. 8 from Red Hat sponsors The […]

After Charlie Miller, a well known Apple security researcher, created a demo app to exploit a serious iOS bug in the iPhone and iPad, Apple suspended his developer account. Miller uncovered a bug in iOS and demonstrated how it works on the iTunes App Store. Apple has revoked his access to the developer program. A […]

Rackspace launched a kit that will make it possible for organizations to launch private clouds based on OpenStack and still receive support from the company. The Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition is a package that businesses can use to set up an OpenStack-based private cloud outside of the Rackspace environment, the hosting provider said Nov. 7. […]

Microsoft released four security bulletins as part of its November Patch Tuesday update, according to the advisory released Nov. 8. One bulletin was marked critical, one moderate and the remaining two important. The majority of bulletins only apply to newer versions of Windows. XP and 2003 users were only affected by the MS11-085 bulletin, which […]

There’s some bad news out of Carnegie Mellon University for Internet users concerned about effectively managing their online privacy. The online privacy management tools don’t appear to work all that well, researchers found. CMU researchers observed 45 participants using nine tools that supposedly limited online behavioral advertising or blocked access to online advertisements and found […]

With all the personal data that has been leaked via Website attacks and data breaches this year, Internet users may be wondering if their accounts had been compromised. A Web service that informs users if they had been compromised sounds like a potentially good thing, but the concept could be abused, according to security researchers. […]

A bug in a firmware update for Juniper routers may have been responsible for a widespread outage throughout North America and Europe on Nov. 7. The bug caused a network failure at backbone provider Level 3 Communications, resulting in service disruptions for Time Warner Cable, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry services and various Internet service providers […]

Attackers are increasingly hitting networks and applications while organizations are struggling to mitigate the effects of the attack using traditional defenses, according to the latest survey from F5 Networks. About a third of the respondents of the survey of senior IT managers in 1,000 organizations around the world said that traditional defenses were not able […]

The cloud is a big part of Symantec’s business model, as the company provides many of its core capabilities-message filtering, data loss prevention, backup, recovery and encryption-as cloud-based services. Now the company is counting on the cloud to drive innovation in authentication and identity management. Since it acquired VeriSign’s security business, Symantec has offered a […]

Palo Alto Networks launched new enterprise-class network-security products to protect branch-office and remote users. The next-generation PA-200 firewall comes in a small form factor and allows enterprises to extend the same level of security for applications, users and content available at headquarters to the branch office, Palo Alto Networks said Nov. 7. Additionally, the WildFire […]