Fahmida Y. Rashid

Microsoft plans to patch 15 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office and Server software as part of the September Patch Tuesday release. Microsoft will release five security bulletins, all of which are rated “important,” according to the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification on Sept. 8. The fact that none of the patches were rated “critical” is […]

Xceedium, which specializes in privileged access management, acquired the password management business from security company Irdeto on Sept. 8. Irdeto’s Cloakware Password Authority product gives customers access to a secure and cloud-based password management service. The deal gives Xceedium the technology behind the product, Irdeto’s client roster of enterprises using Password Authority and the engineering, […]

Nicholas Allegra ‘Comex’ Nicholas Allegra announced on Twitter that he would be starting an internship with Apple this fall. Comex has successfully exploited Apple’s iOS mobile platform to allow owners to jailbreak their devices, even going so far as to provide a patch earlier this year for a particularly nasty vulnerability. Florian Rohrweck Florian Rohrweck […]

Criminals are increasingly becoming more sophisticated and using a wide range of tactics to steal money from financial institutions, forcing banks to fight back with more layers of security. To help financial institutions keep up with attackers’ evolving tactics, IronKey unveiled a multilayered online banking security platform that allows IT departments to roll out different […]

Cyber-criminals may be employing new tactics and technology to execute their online campaigns, but botnets remain lucrative and effective, according to a report from Damballa. New botnets emerged in the first half of 2011 and were more active than older botnets, Damballa researchers found in its Threat Report for the first half of 2011. The […]

Automobiles are getting smarter as carmakers put in computers that can help drivers parallel park and add Internet connectivity to post Facebook or Twitter updates. They are also driving into uncharted territory as the smart features expose the vehicles to cyber-attacks, McAfee said in a recent report. Vehicles are enhanced with embedded chips and sensors […]

Microsoft has permanently blocked all digital certificates issued by Dutch company DigiNotar after it became clear that the attack on the certificate authority was broader than originally thought. The update for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows XP sends all five DigiNotar Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to a block list, Microsoft said in an […]

In the 10 years since hijackers flew two passenger jets into the World Trade Center in New York City and a third one into the Pentagon, federal, state and local governments have struggled to secure transportation systems and physical infrastructure from terrorist attacks. However, the damage was done. The attacks ended-probably forever-Americans’ belief that we […]

Imperva has launched a cloud-based service designed to help businesses defend against distributed-denial-of-service attacks.The Imperva Cloud DDos Protection service will help organizations defend against various types of DDoS attacks, including network-based attacks, such as SYN or UDP floods, and application attacks that consume server resources, Imperva said Sept. 6. With the cloud-based model, Imperva can […]

Philip Reitinger, former director of the United States National Cyber-Security Center, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, will be joining Sony as a chief information security officer, Sony said Sept. 6. The appointment is effective immediately and Reitinger will become a senior vice-president, reporting directly to general counsel Nicole Seligman, according to Sony. […]

Attackers changed the Internet routing information on major Websites to redirect users to different pages over the weekend, affecting dozens of companies, including Microsoft, the United Parcel Service and computer producer Acer. Visitors to the affected sites on Sept. 4 were shown a black page with a message that read in part, “Hacking is not […]

Cloud security news was prominent at the VMworld user show in Las Vegas the week of Aug. 29 where Symantec and VMware announced a desktop-as-a-service offering, which would allow IT departments to integrate security protections integrated into their virtualized environments from the start.Juniper also added antivirus capabilities to its virtual gateway platform, transforming the Web […]