Fahmida Y. Rashid

Government officials were able to secretly order Google and Internet service provider Sonic to hand over an individual’s personal email records as part of their investigation into WikiLeaks. The United States government managed to get two court orders to compel Google and Sonic to hand over email records belonging to a WikiLeaks volunteer from the […]

Security incidents at federal agencies have soared 650 percent over the past five years, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. In the past five years, the number of reported events has grown from 5,503 in 2006 to 41,776 in 2010, federal auditors wrote in a Government Accountability Office report released Oct. 3. […]

As the Department of Homeland Security launched events around the country to kick off October as National Cyber Security Awareness Month, cyber-war and cyber-security awareness dominated the week.Cyber-war fears came to the fore as Wired’s Danger Room broke the news on Oct. 7 that the United States Air Force computers controlling unmanned surveillance and attack […]

Computers used to control the drone unmanned aircraft used by the military to carry out military operations have been reportedly infected with malware, according to a report. A keylogger has infected several computers the pilots use to operate the Predator and Raptor drones in the fleet in missions , Noah Shactman wrote on Wired’s Danger […]

President Obama wants tighter information security measures to prevent another WikiLeaks-style breach. Obama signed an executive order outlining data security measures and rules for government agencies to follow to prevent further data leaks by insiders, the White House said Oct. 7. The executive order defines basic security measures to protect data as well as mandates […]

HP: FlexManagement, Intelligent Management Center HP’s FlexManagement is integrated with mobile network access control in HP Intelligent Management Center 5.1. The IMC streamlines enterprise access to mobile devices and protects IT infrastructure from mobile threats. IT can automatically identify and provision suitable policy for tablets and smartphones connecting to corporate networks. Smith Micro Software: Enterprise […]

A little over a year after NASA and hosting company Rackspace launched OpenStack, the open-source cloud-computing project is being spun off to an independent foundation to drive future development efforts. Rackspace announced the spin-off and the establishment of the OpenStack Foundation at the OpenStack Conference in Boston on Oct. 6. The trademark and copyrights will […]

Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, discussed the latest threat landscape at its Cyber-Security Symposium in New York City Oct. 6. At the symposium, Kaspersky Lab also launched the Windows version of the company’s Endpoint Security 8 software suite. Speaking on upcoming trends in cyber-security, Kaspersky warned that the future is looking very grim. He […]

Worried about aftershocks, Microsoft undertook a massive data migration project following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan in March. While applications and services in the data center in Japan continued to run as normal, Microsoft decided to move all the data and applications to a different data center in North America “just […]

Aiming to protect users across multiple machines and mobile devices, Webroot has revamped its entire security suite. All PCs and mobile devices including tablets and smartphones can be protected using a single Web interface and installing lightweight agents on each device, Webroot said Oct. 4. The appearance of advanced malware and online threats means users […]

Microsoft plans to patch 23 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Silverlight and server software as part of the October Patch Tuesday release. Microsoft will release eight security bulletins, of which two are rated “critical,” according to the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued Oct. 6. The remaining important bulletins address flaws in Forefront Unified Access Gateway, […]

A panel of speakers honed in on the changes increased mobility is bring into the enterprise at the Interop conference in New York. The three keynote speakers, Carole Post, commissioner of NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the server and tools marketing group at Microsoft, and Sujai Hajela, […]