Lisa Vaas

Occupy Wall Street is expected to protest alongside the anti-globalization movement. Traffic will induce migraines. Some schools have rescheduled their proms. But an onslaught of cyber-attacks and WiFi freeloading will likely be the nastiest cherry on the NATO Summit pie, security experts say. This, the first-ever North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit to be held in […]

In cloud storage land, it’s all roses, sunny skies and rock-solid security with fewer employees frittering away less time on securing data€”that is, if you trust vendor-funded studies. For example, Microsoft released on May 14 a study that shows that 35 percent of small and midsize businesses have experienced higher levels of security in the […]

Apple is asking Kaspersky Labs to analyze security on its Mac OS X platform, Kaspersky Labs CTO Nikolai Grebennikov has told Computing magazine. It€™s a good thing, Grebennikov told Computing, seeing as how Apple “doesn’t pay enough attention” to security and given that its OS is basically a sitting duck. “Mac OS is really vulnerable,” […]

A court in The Hague has ruled that ISPs must block access to The Pirate Bay and that the Pirate Party has to stop publishing not only instructions on how to circumvent those blocks, but links to instructions, as well.The Pirate Party is a political party devoted to universal, unrestricted access to the Internet. Freedom […]

Twitter has thumbed its nose at a court order seeking data about an alleged Occupy Wall Street protestor. The order seeks to force the handover of data about Malcolm Harris, as well as his tweets. In a motion filed on Monday in New York state court, Twitter sought to quash the subpoena. Harris is being […]

Apple’s latest update to iOS, iOS 5.1.1 fixes three serious security problems within the family of Mac personal gadgets, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Owners of these gadgets should make it a priority to apply the patch. Today’s patch, if you haven’t already gotten to it, addresses a number of issues in the WebKit rendering […]

Apple’s latest security update to OS X Lion, 10.7.3, was shipped with the debugging switch left on, leaving passwords open in plain text in a folder that had previously been encrypted with the first version of the company’s FileVault encryption.David I. Emery, owner of DIE Consulting, disclosed the flaw on the Cryptome encryption mailing list […]

Drive-by malware downloads are nothing new€”unless, that is, they’re targeting the Android operating system, which is exactly what a newly discovered Trojan is doing. Lookout Mobile Security on Wednesday reported that for the first time, a hacked site is distributing malware for Google’s mobile operating system. Lookout says that the new Trojan, dubbed “NotCompatible,” poses […]

Microsoft has discovered malware that’s preying on Apple computers running unpatched versions of its Office application suite. The two vulnerabilities in question were patched in the Microsoft Office Word 2000 suite in June 2009, almost three years ago. At that time, Microsoft put out a critical security bulletin€”MS09-027€”to close the holes, which can allow an […]

Application Security Inc. has put out the beta for an IBM DB2 version of the companys AppDetective tool, a network-based, penetration testing tool and security audit scanner for databases. AppDetective has three modes of operation: Scan, Pen Test and Audit. Scan searches a network for databases and database components. Pen Test is a penetration test […]