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Sony PlayStation Network Down: System Rebuild After Hacker Attack

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The Sony PlayStation network down news for PS3 and Qriocity players is sobering. The network has been down for several days following an "external intrusion" a.k.a. hacker attack. Sadly, the PSN will be down longer while more security is put in place.

Anthony Pell
Apr 25, 2011

Enhancing Cloud Security Management with Centrify Express 2011

Centrify's Tom Cromelin could hardly kept his excitement down (well, he's a marketing guy -- they get excited when the logo gets a new color) when he wanted to tell me about the new release of Centrify Express 2011. To get the full flavor, let me give it to you in his words:

Anthony Pell
Apr 05, 2011

LEET '11: Botnet Operations Insights From Brett Stone-Gross

A presentation at this week's LEET '11, a USENIX workshop on large-scale exploit and emergent threats, delves into the inner workings of the underground economy, specifically the rental and operation of spam botnets.

Alex
Mar 30, 2011

GoDaddy Enhances .Com Security With DNSSEC Implementation

With more than 47 million domain names under management, GoDaddy has a huge DNS infrastructure that it has upgraded to support the emerging Internet security standard known as DNSSEC for DNS Security Extensions.

Anthony Pell
Mar 23, 2011

Cisco Report Highlights VoIP Abuse and Financial Risks from Vhishing

In its recent annual security report, Cisco predicted VOIP abuse as a potential area for cyber crime growth. "Criminals use brute-force techniques to hack private branch exchange (PBX) systems to place fraudulent, long-distance calls; usually international," the report states. "These incidents, often targeting small or midsize businesses, have resulted in significant financial losses for some companies."

Alex
Mar 09, 2011

Navigating Cloud Security Obstacles in Hybrid IT Environments Today

Mixed IT infrastructures, including cloud and non-cloud systems, will be the norm at many companies for many years. Learn about key cloud security concerns and solutions from three early cloud users. For all the talk about public clouds versus private clouds, many organizations will likely end up with a mixed IT environment that includes both types of cloud as well as non-cloud systems and applications

Alex
Feb 28, 2011

Fundamentals Of Data And Communication Protection For Corporate Laptops

In the first article of this two-part series, I looked at physical protection of laptop computers outside the office. Today we'll review fundamentals of protecting data and data communications. This pair of articles is designed to be useful in security-awareness training for employees who take corporate laptop computers out of the office.

Alex
Feb 23, 2011

XING Security Advisory: Phishing Risks And XSS Threats Detected

A new web site, socialnetworksecurity.org, has been set up to publish details of security vulnerabilities in social networks such as Facebook, Lokalisten, Friendscout24.de, wer-kennt-wen.de and XING. Most of the vulnerabilities listed could be exploited for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Jappy.de, for example, contains one such vulnerability which allows contacts' cookies to be stolen.

Anthony Pell
Feb 21, 2011

Emerging Challenges in Cloud Security Due to Sophisticated Threats

A second area of focus must be in the way we understand and address threats. The threat landscape has evolved dramatically in the past three years: Starting in 2008 with the growing ability of viruses and malware to evade anti-virus signature technologies; to the pandemic scale of attacks launched by criminals in 2009 for profit; to more sophisticated attacks organised by nation states in 2010.

Alex
Feb 17, 2011

Effective Vulnerability Management Strategies for Organizations

DON'T shortchange remediation. Surprisingly, organizations will perform vulnerability scans, or hire someone to conduct a scan, get a report and then not follow through. They may cherry-pick one or two critical items and neglect the rest. The result is that the organization has spent time and money without doing much for its security.

Alex
Feb 14, 2011

Understanding Botnets: Prevention and Detection Strategies for Networks

Botnets are insidious. They spread like digital weeds and infect thousands to tens of thousands of machines at a time. Their only purpose is to enrich and empower the botnet owners as they infiltrate endpoints on consumer systems, colleges, and enterprises around the world. These botnets are used to send spam, launch denial of service attacks, and

Anthony Pell
Feb 03, 2011

Akamai Report Q3 2010: Telnet Attacks Rise on Mobile Networks

A new report from Akamai Technologies shows that hackers appear to be increasingly using the Telnet remote access protocol to attack corporate servers over mobile networks.

Anthony Pell
Jan 28, 2011

Economic DoS Attacks Emerge As Threat To Cloud Affordability

The cloud is the current Next Big Thing in computing, and the Next Big Thing in attacks could be a new breed of economic denial-of-service attacks intended to use up resources and drive up the cost of cloud computing, warns a senior security researcher at Adobe Systems.

Anthony Pell
Jan 20, 2011

Waledac Botnet Launches New Spam Campaigns Targeting Pharmaceuticals

An old threat has reappeared in the new year, researchers said this week. According to a blog by researchers at Websense, the Waledac botnet appeared in a new version in the last days of 2010, sending out large amounts of new year-related spam messages.

Alex
Jan 19, 2011

Wireshark: 1.2.14 & 1.4.3 Critical: DoS Attack Risk from Buffer Overflow

The Wireshark development team has released version 1.2.14 and 1.4.3 of its open source, cross-platform network protocol analyser. According to the developers, the security updates address a high-risk vulnerability (CVE-2010-4538) that could allow a remote attacker to initiate a denial of service (DoS) attack or possibly execute arbitrary code on a victim's system.

Anthony Pell
Jan 13, 2011

Exploring Security Flaws in Amazon Cloud Services and Attack Tactics

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Alex
Jan 12, 2011

AWS Wireless Security Risks: Potential Cyber Threats Explored

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Anthony Pell
Jan 10, 2011

Disaster Recovery Strategies for Cloud Applications: Trusting Your Provider

As a information security executive, what are your concerns related to disaster recovery and business continuity of your cloud applications? In Organizing sensitive data in the cloud, I mention configuration information for each cloud service layer (software, platform, infrastructure, and security) needs to be kept in a directory. I have a significant concern though.

Anthony Pell
Jan 10, 2011

Significant Events in the History of DDoS Attacks within Cyber Warfare

The concept of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks finally entered the mainstream public consciousness this month after assaults on the websites of Visa, MasterCard and PayPal made front page news.

Alex
Dec 20, 2010

WikiLeaks DDoS Attack Insights And Government Response to Security Risks

The British national security adviser, Sir Peter Ricketts, has advised all government departments to review their computer security in light of the recent WikiLeaks attacks.

Alex
Dec 17, 2010

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