With all the publicity about breaches of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/081811-ssl-249874.html">SSL certificate authorities</a> and a hack that exploits a vulnerability in the supposedly secure protocol, it's time to consider something else to protect Internet transactions. If only there were something else to turn to.
Tim Greene | 02 Nov | Read more
Tired of regulators from three or four federal agencies auditing your network security compliance every year? A congressional task force recommends a super-standard that would cut the number of annual audits back to just one.
Tim Greene | 07 Oct | Read more
Check Point Software is coming out with technology designed specifically to fight bots by discovering infections, finding command and control servers and cutting off communications with them.
Tim Greene | 06 Oct | Read more
Look for double the mobile exploits this year vs. 2010 and particularly watch out for mobile applications that are really malware, says IBM's X-Force security research team.
Tim Greene | 30 Sep | Read more
Microsoft is urging customers to update vulnerable versions of SSL to a newer one that is not susceptible to a recently published exploit called BEAST, but in the meantime it recommends steps that lessen the risk of being victimized.
Tim Greene | 28 Sep | Read more
A mid-level organizer of an international online bank-theft ring that relied on the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/120810-trojan-bank.html">Zeus Trojan</a> faces up to 45 years in prison when he is sentenced Jan. 13 after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possession of false IDs.
Tim Greene | 27 Sep | Read more
With the proliferation of data breaches, The Harford insurance company is selling a new data loss insurance aimed at small businesses that might be put at financial risk if they lose valuable and sensitive data.
Tim Greene | 22 Sep | Read more
As Netflix commits its future to streaming movies to customers, it relies almost exclusively on cloud services for its infrastructure, raising security concerns that require a new way of thinking, the company's cloud security architect says.
Tim Greene | 22 Sep | Read more
When it comes to social engineering attacks, larger companies attract more of them, and when they are victimized it costs more per incident, according to a survey sponsored by Check Point.
Tim Greene | 22 Sep | Read more
The latest social engineering trick to get victims to open malicious email attachments accuses them of being spammers and threatens to sue them if they don't stop.
Tim Greene | 22 Sep | Read more
A mammoth army of infected computers is being assembled, but it's unclear yet what purpose they will be put to.
Tim Greene | 16 Sep | Read more
The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/privacy-groups-protest-massive-dhs-database-s">Department of Homeland Security</a> works with financial institutions to thwart cyber attacks and plans to do so more and more in the future, according to DHS testimony to Congress, including sharing top secret cyber intelligence.
Tim Greene | 15 Sep | Read more
We've collected some novel spy gadgets, including some commercial products.
Tim Greene | 24 Aug | Read more
Young males in emerging markets are the most likely to fall victim to cybercrime, whose total cost per year is approaching the scale of illegal drug trafficking worldwide, according to a study by the Norton division of Symantec.
Tim Greene | 08 Sep | Read more
After being dumped as a trusted SSL certificate authority by <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> and Google browsers, Dutch CA <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/083011-google-says-gmail-attack-focused-250231.html">DigiNotar</a> has suspended its sale of certificates.
Tim Greene | 31 Aug | Read more