Fahmida Y. Rashid

The United States government needs to collaborate with academia and businesses to fight cyber-attacks, the Secretary of Homeland Security said in a speech to engineering students at the University of California at Berkeley. In the April 25 speech, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano outlined some of the cyber-security challenges the federal agency regularly faces while […]

The Texas state comptroller’s office has already spent $1.8 million to mitigate the yearlong data breach in which names and Social Security numbers were exposed. The total cost is expected to be even higher as the lawsuits start rolling in. Personal information belonging to approximately 3.5 million people in Texas was accidentally exposed on a […]

A software development firm has spun off a new company that is devoted to secure Web application development with the goal of helping enterprises secure their Websites from external attacks. As a subsidiary of WDDinc, 403 Web Security will help customers develop and maintain secure Web-based applications to prevent attacks, WDDinc officials said on April […]

Organizations face several information security challenges as they transition from IPv4 to IPv6, according to security experts. The difficulties are compounded by the fact that some attackers are using the IPv6 address space to sneak attacks onto IPv4 networks. Even though the transition to IPv6 has been notoriously slow amongst organizations, many cyber-criminals have already […]

After an ethical hacking group exposed a security flaw in Java.com, Oracle quickly patched it. This is the third Website belonging to Oracle with a major Web application vulnerability publicized in the past month. YGN Ethical Hacker Group found an “arbitrary URL redirect vulnerability” in www.java.com, the group said in a post on the SecLists […]

Privacy by Default Unlikely. HTTPS by DefaultUsers who have turned on the HTTPS option on their accounts are secure knowing that their user data is encrypted, making it difficult for malicious individuals to steal personal information. Facebook buries the option on the setti Mixed. Possibly for mobile, but unlikely for the main pages. Vetting ApplicationsThere […]

Iran has uncovered another computer virus targeting the country as part of an ongoing cyber-attack campaign, according to a senior military official. Its capabilities and actual target are still unknown. Iranian experts discovered the “espionage virus,” code-named “Stars,” Gholam Reza Jalali, the head of Passive Defense, an Iranian military unit in charge of combating sabotage, […]

Kaspersky Lab’s founder has his son safe at home and the kidnappers behind bars, the company has confirmed. The Federal Security Service and the Criminal Investigation Department of the Moscow police department launched a raid over the weekend and successfully rescued Ivan Kaspersky, the company said in its official statement on April 25. The police […]

When RSA Security disclosed in February that a third party had breached its networks, the company claimed that it had been hit by an advanced persistent threat. Federal research facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory also blamed its recent breach on an APT. For both RSA and Oak Ridge, the attacks turned out to be a […]

Kaspersky Lab has finally commented on reports that the CEO’s son may have been kidnapped. It told Russian media to stop talking about it. “Kaspersky Lab calls on the media to stop spreading rumors and speculation about the events related to the family members of Yevgeny Kaspersky,” the firm said in a statement April 22. […]