Fahmida Y. Rashid

Managed hosting service provider Internap unveiled its latest cloud offering, a publicly available cloud-computing service based on the open-source OpenStack platform. The new Open Public Cloud service offers customers high-performance, on-demand provisioning and scaling of enterprise computing capacity, Internap said Oct. 27. Open Public Cloud is the first publicly available OpenStack-based cloud environment. Open Public […]

Spammers have found a way to circumvent security measures at URL-shortening Websites that detect and remove malicious links. They are creating their own services on the .info domain, Symantec researchers found. Symantec has identified more than 80 sites set up by spammers to shorten Website addresses, according to its latest “Intelligence Report” released Oct. 25. […]

The Department of Energy has been hit by multiple cyber-attacks in the past year, costing the federal government over $2 million to recover, according to a recent audit report. An annual review of the Department of Energy’s unclassified networks revealed a number of security issues, including weak access controls, improper patching strategy and poor employee […]

Fear of cyber-threats and ongoing demand for digital information boosted Symantec’s second-quarter performance as enterprises and consumers continued to buy its security and backup products, the company said. The company reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $1.68 billion, a 14 percent increase from last year’s revenue of $1.48 billion. Symantec’s net income was $182 million, or […]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan’s largest defense contractor, said it is possible that attackers who had breached its networks and infected several machines with malware had also stolen some sensitive information. While it fell short of an outright admission, the company’s statement was a slight reversal from previous claims that no data had been compromised. Some […]

Virginia Rometty, IBM’s senior vice president and global sales leader, is slated to become the company’s next CEO and president, succeeding longtime leader Samuel Palmisano, who is retiring at the end of the year. As the new CEO, Rometty not only takes over one of the world’s largest and most important tech companies, but she […]

A tool designed to launch denial of service attacks can bring down Secure Sockets Layer servers using just a laptop computer and a standard DSL connection. Developed by a German group called The Hacker’s Choice, THC-SSL-DOS tool is intended to be a proof-of-concept to disclose “fishy security” in the SSL protocol, the group wrote on […]

WikiLeaks has run out of money and shut its doors, according to a note on the whistleblower site. WikiLeaks blamed the situation on an “unlawful financial blockade” imposed on the site by several financial services organizations, said the Oct. 24 note. The site has suspended operations “temporarily” to secure its “economic survical.” “Our battles are […]

Security researchers have cracked the major XML framework used to encrypt data in major Web applications. Two researchers from Germany’s Ruhr-University demonstrated a practical attack against XML’s cipher block chaining module at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in Chicago Oct. 19. The technique affects messages encrypted with any of the algorithms supported […]

Oracle released its own NoSQL database and said the planned Big Data Appliance was poised to launch in the first quarter of 2012. The Oracle NoSQL database is available for download on the Oracle Technology Network, Oracle said Oct. 24. The new database software will also be a key component of the Oracle Big Data […]

The malware used to compromise RSA Security earlier this year may have been used in attacks against more than 700 other organizations, according to a report by security writer and analyst Brian Krebs. Facebook, Google and eBay are among the 760 organizations that may have been hit by malware that used the same command and […]

Symantec set the tone for the week when it released information about Duqu, a sophisticated worm found in the wild that appeared to share portions of its code with the Stuxnet worm. Duqu turned out to betwo separate programs, with one module based on Stuxnet and the other module designed to be a keylogger and […]