Fahmida Y. Rashid

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is calling on ISPs and other experts to protect users from the ongoing online security threats. Internet stakeholders, which include users, service providers and policymakers, need to take “concrete steps” to address botnet attacks, domain name fraud and IP hijacking, said FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski during a speech […]

Juniper Networks acquired Mykonos Software for $80 million in cash to add Web application security to its end-to-end portfolio of security products. The company said it acquired privately held Mykonos to expand its security footprint to include “intrusion-deception” systems that protect Websites and Web applications from advanced attacks. Customers will benefit from having access to […]

IBM is rolling out a new security platform based on the technology from last year’s Q1 Labs acquisition. This new security offering looks to give IT administrators a holistic view of the environment, as well as insight into potential threats. QRadar, IBM’s latest security-intelligence platform, can track corporate vulnerabilities in real-time and analyze unusual activity […]

Worldwide Ethernet switch revenues reached $21 billion in 2011, with most of the growth coming from Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and the Asia-Pacific region, according to a new report from IDC. The worldwide Ethernet switch market rose to $6.06 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, up 5.5 percent year-over-year and […]

Despite Symantec’s claims to the contrary, security researchers now believe that malicious developers can look at the leaked pcAnywhere source code and find vulnerabilities that can be exploited in current versions. A researcher found that pcAnywhere’s source code was relatively unchanged from 10 years ago, according to an anonymous submission to the InfoSec Institute Feb. […]

Content-delivery-network provider Akamai is launching a service that would defend customers from a broad range of distributed denial-of-service (DDos) attacks. The Akamai Kona Site Defender protects customer Websites from getting knocked offline by DDoS attacks by directing malicious traffic to noncritical servers or just filtering them out, according to the company, which officially announced the […]

Ericsson is acquiring Canadian WiFi provider BelAir Networks in an effort to expand the company€™s mobile broadband portfolio and improve its offerings for customers. The acquisition, which the company announced Feb. 21, will give Ericsson a carrier-grade WiFi portfolio, technology expertise, intellectual-property rights and established customer relationships. While neither company disclosed the financial details, Ericsson […]

Stock Exchanges The Websites of the NASDAQ and BATS stock exchanges as well as the Chicago Board Options Exchange were knocked offline for parts of Feb. 13 and Feb. 14. The DDoS attacks did not affect trading systems, just the public-facing nasdaq.com, nasdaqtrader.com, batstrading.com and cboe.com. “LONGwave99” claimed credit for “Operation Digital Tornado” although some […]

Concerned that employees are not taking IT security policies seriously, McAfee and Xerox are teaming up to protect sensitive data stored on office printers. Yet another survey found that employees are either not aware of their company’s security policies or not bothering to follow them. More than half of employees didn’t always follow their organization’s […]

Patches were on every administrator’s mind this week, as Microsoft, Adobe, Google, Oracle and Mozilla all released security updates. Microsoft fixed 21 vulnerabilities, of which XXX was critical, as part of its February Patch Tuesday. This month’s patches were unusual in the number of vulnerabilities fixed in newer versions of Internet Explorer and Windows. Adobe […]

Apple and Microsoft have added security features to the next versions of their respective operating systems in an effort to combat new, more complicated security threats. However, security experts remain skeptical the steps taken would be enough against these malware threats. On Feb. 16, Apple previewed the new Gatekeeper security feature for its new operating […]

Google and Mozilla€”just days after fixing multiple security flaws in their Web browsers€”have updated their products again to fix a serious bug that could result in remote code execution. On Feb. 17, Mozilla fixed an integer overflow bug in the libpng graphics library used by its Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird mail client. Google fixed […]