If there's a poster child for the challenges facing open source security, it may be Werner Koch, the German developer who wrote and for the last 18 years has toiled to maintain Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG), a pillar of the open source software ecosystem.
Paul Roberts | 26 Mar | Read more
Insecure by design and trusted by default, embedded systems present security concerns that could prove crippling
Paul Roberts | 02 Jun | Read more
Our penchant for speaking euphemistically about those we believe to be responsible for cyberattacks has led to a state of utter confusion. It's time to stop.
Paul Roberts | 08 Nov | Read more
How can we explain the FTC's discovery that, for close to a year, Facebook operated a for-profit application security testing service that was little more than a sham?
Paul Roberts | 21 Sep | Read more
For DuPont, Gary Min may have seemed a model employee. A research chemist at DuPont's research laboratory in Circleville, Ohio, Min was a naturalized U.S. citizen with a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania who had worked for DuPont for 10 years, even earning a business degree from Ohio State University with help from his employer. But Min's veneer of respectability began to crack on Dec. 12, 2005, when he told his employer he would be leaving his job.
Paul Roberts | 13 Mar | Read more
Online scams that lure online banking and e-commerce customers to phony Web sites and trick them into giving up sensitive account information have been a mainstay of online criminals for years. However, the increase in so-called spear-phishing attacks is new, as is the increasing sophistication of the software they use to penetrate enterprise networks.
Paul Roberts | 03 Aug | Read more
Leading global telecommunications companies, ISPs (Internet service providers) and network operators will begin sharing information on Internet attacks as members of a new group called the "Fingerprint Sharing Alliance," according to a published statement from the new group.
Paul Roberts | 29 Mar | Read more
Technology isn't going to protect e-commerce customers -- stronger government regulation is what will get the attention of online banks and merchants, forcing them to stop being casual about security, said Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technology officer of Counterpane Internet Security.
Paul Roberts | 15 Mar | Read more
Hackers penetrated the crystalline ranks of Hollywood celebrity Saturday, posting the mobile phone address book of hotel heiress and celebrity Paris Hilton on a Web page and passing the phone numbers and e-mail addresses of some of Tinsel Town's hottest stars into the public realm.
Paul Roberts | 22 Feb | Read more
Leading IT companies including Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Symantec are promoting a rating system that will standardize the measurement of the severity of software vulnerabilities.
Paul Roberts | 21 Feb | Read more
To make it easier to identify and react to new scam Web sites, Microsoft, eBay and Visa International are launching a program to share information about online identity theft scams known as "phishing attacks," they said Monday.
Paul Roberts | 15 Feb | Read more
Leading computer security and telecommunications companies said they are joining forces to raise awareness of threats to VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) technology.
Paul Roberts | 08 Feb | Read more
Security experts are warning about a new threat to Web surfers: malicious Web sites that use international domain names to spoof the Web addresses of legitimate sites.
Paul Roberts | 08 Feb | Read more
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) seized hundreds of computers and around 60T bytes of data as part of an investigation into how details of the U.S. invasion plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom were leaked to The New York Times, a DOD official said.
Paul Roberts | 31 Jan | Read more
Computer security experts remembered the MyDoom e-mail worm Wednesday, one year after it tore through the Internet, deluged e-mail systems with infected messages and set records for infecting vulnerable computer systems.
Paul Roberts | 27 Jan | Read more