Antivirus company warns of new Symbian Trojan
Antivirus company F-Secure is warning mobile phone users about a new malicious software program that infects phones that use the Symbian Series 60 operating system, preventing the phones from starting.
View ArticleSalesforce.com takes hit after another outage
On-demand software vendor and Wall Street darling Salesforce.com took a hit on Friday just one day after the company acknowledged yet another service interruption which affected customers in North...
View ArticleOracle Server flaw sparks warning
A software security expert warned users of Oracle Server that a software flaw could allow any user to read, modify, and delete data used by Oracle applications; he also says that Oracle may have...
View ArticleCalculating IT risk, navigating compliance
No one can afford to lock down everything and comply with the letter and spirit of every regulation. So concentrate resources where liability is highest.
View ArticleFramed!
In Part 2 of Calculating IT risk, navigating compliance, Paul Roberts continues his look at the market and hears from insiders that the right framework - both internally and for business partners -...
View ArticleThe mind of HD Moore
HD Moore has a matter-of-fact way of talking that belies his uncanny ability to draw the public eye. In just the past month, the 25-year-old Texan, who started the open source Metasploit Project in...
View ArticleBuilding smarter authentication
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....
View ArticleFinancial services: High pressure, performance
When it comes to sheer IT "bling," financial services is never outshone. High margins, deep pockets, and intense competition in investment, banking, and insurance have pushed these companies to the...
View ArticleExcuses on iPod virus not credible
Security and quality assurance experts reacted negatively to Apple Computer's efforts Tuesday to blame manufacturing problems that resulted in iPod MP3 players shipping with a virus that affects...
View ArticleEMC: Vendor cooperation key to data security
The cool reception from Wall Street after EMC's announcement that it would buy RSA Security had EMC executives feeling a bit flummoxed -- like the guy who elopes, only to find out that his friends...
View ArticleFuture-proof your IT security
Asymmetric warfare is hell. Sure, you may have night-vision goggles, body armor, and air support, but you're also working for a bureaucratic organization built to fight a war that doesn't look much...
View ArticleFuture growth demands wireless ISPs
Aspiring entrepreneurs can only dream about a track record like Selina Lo's. First there was Centillion, a networking startup that Lo co-founded, and Bay Networks purchased for US$100 million in 1994....
View ArticleSecure your enterprise data
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...
View ArticleBeware the next circle of hell: Unpatchable systems
Insecure by design and trusted by default, embedded systems present security concerns that could prove crippling
View ArticleThe state of open source security
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...
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