Security
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Facebook-McAfee Deal: A Great Start
McAfee and Facebook have joined forces to keep 350 million Facebook users safe from malware. But if you think this is a...
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Half of all data centers understaffed, Symantec survey finds
Fifty percent of IT executives say their data centers are understaffed, and companies are still looking for more ways to cut costs,...
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Gearing towards data storage
Now that the year 2009 is behind, NETGEAR, a provider of networking solutions for SMBs and SoHo users wants to use 2010...
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Y2K all over again in 2010?
A decade after the Y2K crisis, date changes still pose technology problems, making some security software upgrades difficult and locking millions of...
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Symantec product hits end-of-decade snafu
Symantec is warning that its Endpoint Protection Manager server product is erroneously marking signature updates issued this year as out of date....
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Hackers find a home in Amazon’s EC2 cloud
Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. This marks...
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Hacker pleads guilty in massive fraud case
A hacker from Miami pled guilty to conspiracy to hack into computer networks at major U.S. retail and financial groups, and to...
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Adobe will be top target for hackers in 2010, report says
Adobe Systems’ Flash and Acrobat Reader products will become the preferred targets for criminal hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsoft Office applications, a...
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As DDoS attacks go, this one’s a dud
With all due respect to the affected holiday shoppers in Northern California, yesterday’s distributed denial-of-service attack on Amazon, Wal-Mart, and other sites...
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Hackers hit OpenX ad server in Adobe attack
Hackers have exploited flaws in a popular open-source advertising software to place malicious code on advertisements on several popular Web sites over...
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Secure1st to host IT security workshops
Secure1st has announced its plans to conduct free monthly workshops beginning 2010, covering various areas of IT Security and Computer Forensics. Primarily...
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Essential patches of 2009
Fact: Everyone who patches is safer. Fact: Not everyone patches. The gap between the two facts is too deep for even security...
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Virtualization security remains a work in progress
While adoption of server virtualization is proceeding at a gallop, the effort to refine virtualization security reached only a slow trot in...
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Adobe explains PDF patch delay
Adobe chose to wait until mid-January to patch a critical PDF bug because issuing an emergency update would have disrupted its quarterly...
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Adobe won’t patch latest PDF zero-day until Jan. 12
Adobe won’t patch the newest critical vulnerability in its PDF viewing and editing software for another four weeks, even though attack code...