Fahmida Y. Rashid

Typosquatting is a widespread problem on the Web, as scammers register domains similar to popular Websites to trick users who accidentally mistype a domain name. Several recent Web security studies suggest that Internet users need to be more careful about their typing to avoid Web scams and getting compromised by malicious sites. Researchers at the […]

Someone over at Microsoft is a little trigger-happy on the “publish” button, it seems. The software giant published the details of the bulletins for the upcoming Patch Tuesday release four days early. Expected to go live Sept. 13, the details of the five bulletins fixing 15 vulnerabilities appeared for a brief period on Microsoft’s Security […]

Nothing is sacred to scammers and online attackers, and the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks appears to be no exception. Malicious perpetrators took over the Twitter account belonging to NBC News and posted messages claiming a terrorist attack at Ground Zero in New York in the late afternoon of Sept. 9. Vivian […]

Obama administration officials spoke about the need for increased penalties for computer crimes in light of increased data breaches and hacking activity. The increase in computer crime, ranging from Anonymous-led distributed denial-of-service attacks, Website attacks where data is stolen and general online mayhem, has led the White House to call for an increase in criminal […]

After a cyber-attacker bragged online about having compromised Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar and several others, Mozilla has demanded the companies audit their systems to ensure they haven’t been breached. Mozilla wants the certificate authorities it recognizes in its software, including the likes of Symantec, Verizon and Go Daddy, to audit their systems to ensure they […]

A data privacy breach at Stanford University’s hospital has resulted in medical records for 20,000 emergency room patients being posted on a public Website for nearly a year, according to The New York Times. A patient notified the hospital of the breach Aug. 22, and the hospital has been investigating how a detailed spreadsheet containing […]

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 […]