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HID Global Demonstrates First Single-Provider Solution For Physical-Logical Access At RSA Conference 2012ActivIdentity fraud detection service part of company's Identity Assurance businessRSA Conference -- HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the d...
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Can Cisco Deliver On Security Strategy?New leadership makes promises, but some pundits remain skepticalBy Ericka ChickowskiDark Reading - After flux in leadership late last year, Cisco kicked off its efforts to reboot its security image at RSA on Monday w...
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Who do you blame when IT breaks?Assessing fault in data center incidents may pit internal IT staff against their vendorsBy Patrick ThibodeauComputerworld - There's always a reason why things break in IT, and the powers-that-be can usually find someone to ...
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Better Information Sharing is the Future of Security, Experts SayBy Colin Neagle, Network WorldAfter having founded a software security company, selling it to HP and then working for them, Roger Thornton gained valuable insight into the evolving IT securi...
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Inadequate SSL Certificate Data Threatens IT SecurityNew survey finds a majority of organizations don't know where or how many certificates they actually have, and nearly as many lack an accurate idea of which certificates are about to expire.By Thor Olav...
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Group Files FTC Complaint Against Google for Privacy ChangesCenter for Digital Democracy calls on the FTC to halt the proposed changes scheduled for March 1By Grant Gross, CSOThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission should force Google to halt its plan to consol...
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Expert: Microsoft has Itself to Blame in Browser-Privacy FlapMicrosoft is pointing fingers at Google and Facebook for circumventing the privacy mechanism baked into Internet Explorer, but the real problem lies in its own failure to implement the P3P priva...
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Unique Malware Samples Broke the 75 Million Mark in 2011The number of unique malware samples broke the 75 million mark in 2011, McAfee notes in its fourth-quarter threats report for 2011, which also looks back at annual global trends in malicious code act...
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Researchers Defeat Video CAPTCHA Antispam TestsSecurity researchers have found a way to beat NuCaptcha video-based security tests that websites use to stop spam bots.By Lucian Constantin, CSOA team of researchers has devised a method to defeat NuCaptcha, ...
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Attackers have All They Need From Leaky Cellphone Networks to Track You DownBy Bob Brown, Network WorldGSM cellular networks leak enough location data to give third-parties secret access to cellphone users' whereabouts, according to new University of Minn...
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Anonymous Threatens to DDOS Root Internet ServersThe threat from the hacktivist group is unlikely to be successful, said an expert.By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service (London Bureau)An upcoming campaign announced by the hacking group Anonymous directed again...
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Learn Why Gartner Chose SafeNet as the Leader in User Authentication - An Alvand Solutions WebinarJoin us for a Webinar on March 6Space is limited.Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/892507262Join Alvand Solutions and Sa...
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Lieberman: Cybersecurity Act of 2012 Will Help Us Protect Critical InfrastructureAt a hearing on the bill, witnesses and senators said fast action is necessary to protect critical infrastructure against certain attack. The bill's sponsor promised there's ...
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8 Tips to Defend Against Online Financial Fraud ThreatsCriminals are increasingly seeking to hijack the accounts of business owners and executives to initiate fraudulent wire transfers that can cost organizations a fortune. Here are eight steps you can ta...
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Cryptographers Discover Public Key Infrastructure FlawToday's public key infrastructure used to secure HTTPS has security shortcomings that, in some cases, could help attackers steal data and attack servers.By Mathew J. Schwartz, InformationWeekThe curren...
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Twitter Admits Storing iPhone Contact DataTwitter has admitted that its iPhone app uploads the entire contents of a user's address book for up to 18 months.By Ben Camm-Jones, macworld.co.ukTwitter has admitted that its iPhone app uploads the entire conten...
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Employment for Security Professionals At All-Time HighInformation security is where the jobs are, and where opportunities will continue to increase, a survey has found.By Anh Nguyen, Computerworld UKInformation security is where the jobs are, and where op...
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Malware Network Threats Rising, How to Defend YourselfLast year saw the rise of malware networks, distributed network infrastructures that exploit popular places on the Internet to repeatedly launch a variety of dynamic malware attacks. Blue Coat Labs has...
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StopTheHacker LaunchesNew Web security-as-a-service firm comes out of stealth mode with new funding and new services.By Kelly Jackson Higgins, Dark ReadingA Web security-as-a service (SaaS) company officially launched today, announcing an initial round of...
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Avoid Putting IT in a GRC VacuumWhen infosec pros are asked to set security and compliance policies with no line-of-business input, problems are inevitable.By Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer, Dark ReadingWhile IT personnel should have significant i...
