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Cloud providers need to step up on security, say analysts

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Cloud providers ought to provide data security -- that should be obvious. But some providers themselves, along with some security analysts, say they also ought to be doing more, such as educating their customers about best security practices.

Dave Wreski
May 01, 2012

Upcoming Firefox click-to-play feature will stop automated plug-in exploits

Mozilla developers are working on a new Firefox feature that will block the automated display of plug-in-based content like Flash videos, Java applets or PDF files, and will protect users from attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to install malware on their computers.

Alex
Apr 16, 2012

ICANN: Privates leaked in top-level domain land grab blunder

ICANN has revealed that it took down its top-level domain application system yesterday after discovering a potentially serious data leakage vulnerability.

Dave Wreski
Apr 13, 2012

Financial services industry sees DDOS attacks triple, says Prolexic

The financial services industry saw nearly triple the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks during the first three months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to a report released Wednesday.

Dave Wreski
Apr 12, 2012

Anonymous targets UK Government sites with DDoS - Update

The hacktivist collective Anonymous are staging a distributed denial of service attack on the UK Government's Home Office, the Prime Minister's Number 10 and the Ministry of Justice web sites. The attacks began on the evening of Saturday 7 April and were claimed as the work of Anonymous in three tweets (1, 2, 3) by @YourAnonNews, the first of which read "TANGO DOWN - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office (via @AnonymouSpoon) For your draconian surveillance proposals! Told you to #ExpectUs! #ANONYMOUS #AnonUK".

Dave Wreski
Apr 09, 2012

IBM Says Security Threats Mount Despite More Awareness

Nick Bradley, senior manager for IBM (NYSE: IBM) global security operations, said despite more awareness, computer center managers need to be vigilant against cyberattacks.

Alex
Mar 22, 2012

How To Secure DNS with DNSCrypt

This open-source software for Mac and Linux does for DNS what SSL does for HTTP: It encrypts DNS traffic to prevent spoofing, snooping, and man-in-the-middle attacks.

Dave Wreski
Mar 20, 2012

Microsoft: Critical worm hole could be exploited within 30 days

Listen up, this one is serious. There is a critical vulnerability in many versions of Windows, which could be exploited to spread a worm automatically between vulnerable computers.

Anthony Pell
Mar 14, 2012

3 key issues for secure virtualization

Virtualization represents a sea change in IT practices. Bound for years by the "one application, one server" rule, IT infrastructure was over capacity, underused and not cost-effective.

Dave Wreski
Mar 09, 2012

How to Catch an Internet Cyber Thief

They're out there, says security researchers: the Chinese hackers attempting to break into U.S. enterprises, and jihadist terrorists that brazenly post videos of sniper killings, while stealing credit-cards to launder money for funding nefarious campaigns in Mideast or Caucasus hot spots.

Alex
Mar 02, 2012

Why CloudFlare kept LulzSec safe

On June 2nd, 2011, the antisec hacker group known as LulzSec launched a web site. Although they had been an active hacking group for several weeks, the creation of Lulzsecurity.com was their first official web presence other than the Twitter account they had been using.

Anthony Pell
Feb 29, 2012

Google Chrome update fixes high-severity vulnerabilities

Google released a new version of its Chrome browser on Wednesday in order to update the bundled Flash Player plug-in and address serious security vulnerabilities.

Anthony Pell
Feb 16, 2012

Passive Network Fingerprinting; p0f Gets Fresh Rewrite

In the network security world, nmap is the king for fingerprinting systems and services over the network. It can help identify the operating system (OS), type, and version of a network service, and vulnerabilities that might be present.

Anthony Pell
Feb 07, 2012

4 Ways to Prevent Domain Name Hijacking

On the night of Monday, January 23, the hacktivist group UGNazi hijacked Coach.com, the Internet domain name of luxury goods manufacturer Coach. For several hours, fashionistas who wanted to ogle Coach's new Willis handbag on Coach.com or get a deal on its Penelope shoulder bag at Coachfactory.com were redirected to UGNazi's cryptic website.

Dave Wreski
Feb 02, 2012

Cloud activity to explode in 2012

In testing cloud computing services and observing the growth of cloud activities, we've noticed that there are distinct phases that organizations go through in adopting cloud.

Dave Wreski
Jan 18, 2012

Judge bans stolen student sex pics sharing on BitTorrent

Conservative MP Louise Mensch has welcomed a landmark ruling in an internet bullying case as an advance for individual liberty. The case involved an anonymous student, known for the purposes of the case as "AMP", whose photographs were distributed by P2P software after her mobile phone was lost or stolen.

Dave Wreski
Jan 12, 2012

Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz

A century ago, one of the world

Alex
Dec 29, 2011

2011: A year of hack!

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Anthony Pell
Dec 20, 2011

Top 10 Influential 2011: Sony's PSN hacking

While the tag-teaming antics of LulzSec and Anonymous made many a security news headline during the last year, arguably the repeated hacking of Sony

Dave Wreski
Dec 05, 2011

Tor launches DIY relays in Amazon cloud

The Tor Project is tapping Amazon's EC2 cloud service to make it easier for volunteers to donate bandwidth to the anonymity network.

Anthony Pell
Nov 22, 2011

I2P 2.5.0 Release Brings Improvements in Tunnels, I2PSnark & More

Canonical Makes Network Management Simpler and More Secure with Netplan 1.0

GTPDOOR Linux Malware Threatens Telecoms, Exploits GPRS Roaming Networks