Fahmida Y. Rashid

Days after Google disclosed several high-profile Gmail accounts had been hit by a phishing campaign, reports have emerged of similar attacks against other Web-based email providers. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail have also been targeted with similar phishing attacks, Nart Villeneuve, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, wrote in a June 2 blog post. Villeneuve […]

Another defense contractor appears to have been hit by a cyber-attack, and a leaked memo indicates company executives believe attackers used information stolen from RSA Security earlier this year. If true, RSA’s SecurID technology may be irrevocably compromised. Attackers hit major defense contractor L-3 Communications Holdings by spoofing pass codes from a cloned RSA SecurID […]

So long as organizations continue to invest in security products that are defensive, cyber-attackers will continue to successfully breach networks and steal information, warned a security expert. Organizations have invested in traditional defenses that are “fundamentally reactive” as they rely on known methods of attack, Ashar Aziz, CEO, CTO and founder of FireEye, told eWEEK. […]

When cyber-attackers breach an organization’s network, the database is usually their target. However, many organizations are so focused on protecting the perimeter that they don’t think about protecting the database itself, according to several security experts. Many organizations still think that protecting the perimeter is sufficient to protect the data, but as recent data breaches […]

A team of university researchers examined more than 100 “popular” Websites and found three-quarters of the sites leaked private information or users’ identifying data to third-party tracking sites. The survey results were released shortly after Facebook came under fire for inadvertently passing user data to other parties. More than half (56 percent) of sites “directly […]

It’s a game of whack-a-mole. Apple pushed out a security update that could detect and remove known MacDefender variants from Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) on May 31. A new version of the fake antivirus that could get past Apple’s File Quarantine was spotted in the wild less than eight hours later. The latest version […]

The open-source office-productivity suite OpenOffice has a surprising new home: Apache. There was some speculation Oracle might donate the project to the The Document Foundation, the group of developers that split from OpenOffice to launch LibreOffice last fall. OpenOffice will join Apache Software Foundation as an “incubator” project, Oracle said June 1. As an incubator […]

NEW YORK-The technology services arm of the New York Stock Exchange Euronext has launched a cloud computing platform that will allow trading firms and banks to outsource their operations. This is the first public “financial services-specific” cloud platform, NYSE Technologies said. The cloud, officially known as the Capital Markets Community Platform, will host customer applications […]

Citrix System has added Project Olympus, a new cloud product, to its open cloud computing portfolio to complement its Citrix NetScaler Cloud Gateway and NetScaler Cloud Bridge. Citrix Systems announced Project Olympus, a new cloud infrastructure product based on the open-source cloud operating system OpenStack, at Citrix Synergy Summit on May 25. Project Olympus will […]

Cyber-criminals were busy during the first quarter of 2011, as there were more unique malware samples circulating during this time period, McAfee said. Attacks surged in the first quarter of 2011, as researchers counted six million unique malware samples, McAfee said in its first quarter Threat Report, released June 1. There were 2.75 million new […]

A group of hackers angered by PBS Frontline’s WikiLeaks documentary posted a fake news story onto the TV station’s Website and compromised servers and databases in revenge. The group, The Lulz Boat, posted a story on the Public Broadcasting System Website that claimed Tupac Shakur was alive and well, residing in a small town in […]

The original developers behind DroidDream have added more applications to the Android Market with a stripped-down version of the original Android malware, according to a security firm. A total of 26 applications in the official Android Market were found to contain malware that can steal significant amount of personal data, Lookout Security said May 30. […]