A Congressional survey of utility companies shows that the US electric grid is warding off “daily,” “constant” and “frequent” cyber-attacks, including one power company that reported it is the target of around 10,000 attempted attacks each month.
22 May 2013
Global financial information company and credit score keeper Experian has implemented new security controls to drive cyber-risk out of its social media activities, in an effort to safeguard consumer information.
22 May 2013
The Microsoft Malware Protection center is shifting its research focus away from predicting test samples and instead focussing on prevalence-weighted response and family research.
22 May 2013
Starting with the Anonymous Operation Payback in 2010, in retaliation for what many consider the illegal financial blockade of WikiLeaks, DDoS as a weapon of dissent has increasingly become a part of life on the internet.
22 May 2013
BYOD as a security issue has largely focused on the business arena – the dangers inherent in allowing personal smartphones and tablets to connect to the corporate network. But mobile devices have been adopted as a way of life with youngsters, and in some ways education has led the BYOD phenomenon.
22 May 2013
Blue Coat operates largely outside of the perimeter; Solera Networks operates within the perimeter. Put the two together and you have the complete security solution – that is the the theory behind Blue Coat’s latest acquisition.
22 May 2013
Prosecutors have reduced the charges in the case against the Army GI who released more than 700,000 classified government documents to the WikiLeaks site.
21 May 2013
New research into eight critical security threats on mobile devices found the majority of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are either unaware of or defenseless against the threats posed to their networks by mobile devices and BYOD.
21 May 2013
A variant of the formidable banking trojan Citadel has been targeting Payza – a payment platform popular in developing countries that have limited access to online financial services.
21 May 2013
Last week the Italian postal police arrested four 'members' of the Anonymous movement in an operation dubbed 'Tango Down'. On Monday Anonymous responded with its own tango down on the official Court of Rome website.
21 May 2013