There has been a promising shift in the tech industry, with major companies pledging to release products with built-in security features. This development aims to address the increasing cybersecurity threats individuals and organizations face.
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The Pwn2Own hacking contest next month will feature its largest-ever crew of contestants, including past winners, a French security firm armed with a bagful of bugs and an iPhone jailbreak expert who has been sued by Sony.
There are more than 450 expo vendors showing wares or hawking programs at the 20th annual RSA Conference now underway in San Francisco. In the weeks leading up to the conference talked with nearly 25 vendors about the announcements they are making today.
A major topic sure to be discussed at RSA Conference 2011 next week is cyber warfare -- specifically, whether or not we're really in the middle of one. Fueling the debate is Stuxnet, a piece of malware widely believed to be the creation of Israel and-or the U.S., designed to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
The annual RSA Conference, now in its 20th year, will be rocking this month as the security industry gathers in the weeklong extravaganza of product introductions and security experts arguing cloud and mobile computing security issues.
Smartphone security has been a major focus at ShmooCon in the last couple years, with talks about flaws in BlackBerry and iPhone devices. This year, two researchers targeted all their firepower on the Android. Here's what they found.
A Black Hat Conference is nothing if not quirky as security geeks try every stunt possible to show what a clueless world we live in when it comes to security. Anyway, here are some such moments from this week's event:
Theo de Raadt is one of the key hackers outside the mainstream GNU/Linux world. Here's his self-penned bio: I am the founder of OpenBSD -- a freely redistributable 4.4BSD-based operating system with an emphasis on security. Donations allow me to put my efforts into OpenBSD and related projects. In 1999, I created OpenSSH with other members of OpenBSD.
Comodo offers tips to experience e-commerce a safe and secure one this season. Never, under any circumstances, use a public network for financial transactions. Public networks include Internet cafes, coffee houses, public libraries and airports. Only send your personal and financial details over a network you've set up yourself, or one you know to be secure. Who knows what horrors are lurking on the hard disk of that internet.
Understanding the business risk posed due to security threats is crucial for IT managers and security officers, two analysts have claimed. Addressing a media roundtable in Sydney at the Gartner Symposium, Andrew Walls and Rob McMillan said CIOs and CSOs must be abreast of their organisations
What if you could outfit visitors to your website with a coat of anti-botnet armor? A pair of researchers has come up with coding techniques they say ultimately renders infected user machines useless to botnet operators harvesting data.
Software security house Imperva will release details of its 10 key security trends for 2011 next week. Here is a preview.
Man in the browser (MITB) attacks are a new threat which consumers will face and the hacking industry is widely adopting, especially as many security products are not mature enough yet to deal with this problem.
With the CIA, NSA and Homeland Security looking over their shoulders, computer hacking teens from an Aurora high school placed 12th among 120 teams in a national competition.
Nearly half of those who work in critical infrastructure systems worldwide expect their company to be targeted by a computer attack over the next year, a new survey has found.
The so-called Zero Trust model for security proposed by Forrester Research earlier this month has revived debate about the way organizations secure their networks.
Caterpillars, roaches and worms crawl on a computer, which represents an infected computer, next to a clean one, in a display that illustrates computer safety at Hacktivity, in Budapest. The major hackers' conference wrapped up in Hungary Sunday after higlighting protection against increasingly sophisticated computer piracy as the Internet becomes ever more present in daily life.
