Fahmida Y. Rashid

In the wake of the breach on the Dutch certificate authority in which several hundred fraudulent digital certificates were issued, many security researchers claimed the certificate authority system was irrevocably broken and a new system was necessary to establish online trust. One CA, Symantec, argues that the incident just reinforces that CAs need to improve […]

A major Japanese defense contractor discovered cyber-attackers had breached its computer network in August. The company says it’s not clear yet what has been compromised. Approximately 45 servers and 38 computers were infected with malware at ten facilities located throughout Japan and its Yokohama headquarters, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries told Reuters on Sept. 18. Japan’s largest […]

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 […]