Fahmida Y. Rashid

Security breaches and network security threats posed by social media and smartphone use at work are keeping network administrators up at night, according to a recent survey. In the latest What Keeps Network Administrators Up at Night survey from Amplitude Research, 41 percent of respondents named security breaches to their network and another 40 percent […]

Spam volumes and the number of malicious Websites dropped in April, according to the latest MessageLabs monthly report from Symantec.cloud. Spam dropped 6.4 percent in April, making up 72.9 percent of all email traffic and the number of Websites blocked for carrying malware fell by nearly 20 percent, Symantec.cloud researchers wrote in the April MessageLabs […]

Danish security researchers came across a new crimeware kit for sale on several underground forums that purports to create malware that targets the Mac OS X platform. The $1,000 kit is being sold on a few “closed” underground forums under the name “Weyland-Yutani Bot,” Peter Kruse, a partner and security specialist for Danish IT firm […]

Email marketing services company Epsilon’s recent data breach could cost the company as much as $4 billion, according to a worst-case scenario outlined in a recent report. Epsilon will face years of repercussions, up to $225 million in liabilities and $45 million in lost business, cyber-risk analytics and intelligence firm CyberFactors said in a report […]

Free DNS provider OpenDNS announced a free IPv6-based DNS sandbox for IT professionals interested in experimenting with the next-generation Internet technology. The free DNS recursive service supporting IPv6 will allow Internet users to pull up IPv6 addresses by typing in the appropriate domain name, OpenDNS said May 2. DNS was invented so people won’t have […]

As enterprises develop IPv6 transition plans for their corporate network, IT departments are looking for tools and resources to help them make the switch. Infoblox is trying to make the migration easier. Infoblox added two new features to its DDI appliances to help service providers and enterprise customers in the midst of the IPv6 transition, […]

Relying on the supposed “invulnerability” of Apple’s operating system got even riskier as malware developers have launched a rogue antivirus specifically targeting Mac OS X users, according to a security firm. The bogus antivirus program, called MAC Defender downloads itself onto the user’s computer and automatically launches a scanner to “find” several viruses on the […]

Sony has admitted that the intruders that stole data from the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music and video service also breached its Sony Online Entertainment service. The personal information of an additional 24.6 million gamers who’d registered on the Sony Online Entertainment service was compromised, Sony disclosed late in the day on May 2. Names, […]

The man who inadvertently live-blogged on Twitter the Navy SEAL operation that took out Osama bin Laden on May 1 received an unexpected gift to go with his 15 minutes of fame. His Web site was compromised with a malware kit to download malware onto site visitors’ computers. When Sohaib Athar posted on Twitter, “Helicopter […]

Cyber-criminals have seized on the killing of Osama bin Laden as a fresh opportunity to push out rogue antivirus products, fake video codecs and Facebook scams using poisoned search links. President Barack Obama announced the success of a Navy Seals operation that killed Osama Bin Laden in a $1 million mansion hideout located 60 miles […]

Celebratory users have marked multiple possible sites of the late Osama bin Laden’s “mansion” hideout on Google Maps and Google Earth. They also posted scathing reviews of the amenities and architecture of the fortress-like compound. Following President Barack Obama’s May 1 announcement that the United States Navy SEAL forces killed Osama bin Laden, users celebrated […]

Sony’s senior executives formally apologized to its customers for the PlayStation Network breach and assured them they were rebuilding the network to prevent future incidents. Three of Sony’s senior executives apologized to users after hackers penetrate the PlayStation Network and stead customers’ personal information. Kazuo Hirai, the head of Sony’s video game and consumer electronics […]