BIRMINGHAM - After each major breach security pundits are quick to pile on the victim. The Stratfor breach by Anonymous seems to have raised more the usual amount of ire. Bloggers are criticizing the blatant lack of security controls which included unprotected servers, simple hashes for passwords, and no encryption for credit card data. Perhaps
SAN JOSE, Ca. ? On Jan. 15, on-line shoe sales site Zappos notified customers about the breach of their database systems that resulted in the exposure of customer data, which could have been prevented if the data had been encrypted. Todd Thiemann, Senior Director, Product Marketing Vormetic, which provides encryption for 15 of the Fortune
BIRMINGHAM ? Eric Knapp, Director of Critical Infrastructure Markets at NitroSecurity, talks about how to secure the power distribution systems and the ?smart grid? in a Cyber Defense Update webinar with Richard Stiennon. Knapp is the author of Industrial Network Security: Securing Critical Infrastructure Networks for Smart Grid, SCADA, and Other Industrial Control Systems. He
SAN FRANCISCO - A recent survey from The Ponemon Institute and PC Tools reveals a real gap between how aware Americans think they are of Internet scams and how likely they actually are to fall for them. For instance, 47 percent of U.S. respondents identified an online survey with a prize as either a scam
BIRMINGHAM - Let this be the day that you change your password practices. On December 24th, 2011, Anonymous, the group of hackers that includes anyone who chooses to adapt that label, announced that they had broken into the servers of the defense intelligence organization Stratfor. Despite Anonymous? belief in a vast military-industrial-government conspiracy, Stratfor is
SAN FRANCISCO - Sprint, which for weeks has defended its use of Carrier IQ software on mobile phones, is now disabling the software, a Sprint spokeswoman told CNET News.Com. "We have weighed customer concerns and we have disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic information and data is no longer being collected," spokeswoman Stephanie
SAN FRANCISCO - The number of malicious apps mobile security firm Lookout has identified in less than six months has doubled to 1,000, according to a report from Lookout. The vast majority of those dubious apps are found on third-party app stores and alternatives to the official Android Market, the company said in a report
NEW YORK - The largest-ever global survey of the data science community, spanning the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, India and China, finds that only one-third of companies are able to effectively use new data to assist their business decision-making, gain competitive advantage, drive productivity growth, yield innovation and reveal customer insights. The
SAN FRANCISCO - In the fight against malware, Apple's iOS outshines Android as a safer environment, but no mobile device is free from risk, says a new report from McAfee. Apple has so far done a good job of securing its devices, according to the report, noting that there have been no known cases of
SAN FRANCISCO - Symantec's new 2011 Enterprise Encryption Trends survey concludes that the inability to access important business information due to fragmented encryption solutions and poor key management is costing the average business $124,965 per year. Survey has found businesses are securing data with encryption in more places than ever. The problem is that encryption