Fahmida Y. Rashid

Updates dominated the week, with system administrators having to work through Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday release, Adobe’s quarterly update for Reader and Acrobat, and Oracle’s out-of-band update to fix a denial-of-service vulnerability. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday did not have any surprises since the company had accidentally released the details the week before. All five bulletins had […]

Senior executives are confident in their organization’s information security strategy, even when they shouldn’t be, according to a recent survey. In a survey of 9,600 senior executives, including CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, and CSOs, a surprising 43 percent said their organization had an effective security strategy that was being executed proactively, PwC said in a report […]

Oracle issued an emergency patch to fix a security vulnerability in Oracle application servers that are based on the Apache Web server software. Apache developers rushed out a patch a few weeks ago to close a bug that allowed attackers to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on Web servers running Apache 2.0 and 2.2. Oracle’s out-of-band […]

IT executives are struggling to protect corporate data and intellectual property as more employees use their personal devices to check work email, read documents and log in to enterprise systems, according to a recent study. Of the 750 IT professionals who took part in the Dell KACE-sponsored survey, 87 percent of the respondents said their […]

Cyber-crime continues to flourish as perpetrators continually evolve new attacks and scams to compromise users and steal money and information, but there are certain things enterprises can do to protect themselves, security experts said at a cyber-defense summit. Financial cyber-fraud, insider threats to corporations, risk assessment and the costs of cyber-crime were some of the […]

The arrest of a rogue stock trader at UBS, one of the world’s largest and most recognized banks, should serve as a wake-up call to all enterprises that many security threats actually come from inside their organization rather than from outside, according to several security experts. London police arrested a rogue trader with the Swiss […]

Cyber-criminals continue to target United States businesses, the country’s financial institutions and government agencies in an ongoing effort to steal both money and information. Still, despite the best efforts of local, state and federal law enforcement, these cyber-criminals show no signs of slowing down, according to new Congressional testimony by some of the country’s leading […]

NEW YORK – General Electric is pledging to invest $1 billion in cancer research over the next five years and the company announced an innovation challenge to spur development of cancer diagnostics and treatments. GE CEO Jeff Immelt launched a six-month $100 million project as part of the company’s “healthymagination” initiative at a press event […]

The SpyEye Trojan has evolved yet again, as the latest version can intercept Short Message Service texts from compromised Android smartphones. Dubbed “Spitmo,” the new variant is currently being distributed from compromised Spanish banking Websites and targets Android devices, Ayelet Heyman, a senior malware researcher at Trusteer, wrote on the company’s blog. This is the […]

Intel and McAfee have unwrapped details about a new hardware-based security product that offers protection for systems at the chip level. This new technology shows how Intel plans to integrate McAfee’s security and software products into its processor portfolio. The chip giant launched McAfee DeepSAFE, a combined hardware-software platform that would prevent security breaches, block […]

Hewlett-Packard combined its security products and technology from recent acquisitions to unveil an expanded Enterprise Security Solutions portfolio designed to help businesses deal with persistent security threats from cloud applications and social media. This new offering reflects the company’s desire to move more into the security and services markets. The new security portfolio provides organizations […]

In a closed-door summit on advanced persistent threats, CISOs, CIOs and CEOs revealed that their organizations had been breached at least once by sophisticated attackers intent on stealing sensitive information. Several admitted they wouldn’t be able to tell if they had been attacked. More than 100 C-level executives from major organizations attended the Summit on […]