Researchers Analyzing Attack Patterns With Cloud-Based Malware Data

BARCELONA–Successful targeted attacks against companies such as RSA, Google and others have made huge splashes in the news in the last year or two and drawn a lot of attention to the phenomenon. But it’s not just the successful attacks that are interesting, security researchers say. In many cases...

China-Based Attacks Targeted Gmail of U.S. Officials, Activists

Search giant Google has again sounded the alarm about sophisticated attacks emanating from mainland China and targeting officials within the U.S. and Asian governments, as well as human rights activists and journalists. Samples of some of the messages posted on an independent researcher’s blog...

German researcher exposes WiFi vulnerability !

Cologne security expert used an Amazon cloud-based service for hacking purposes on the cheap. He plans on making his software public and will describe it more fully at a hacker conference in the US later this month. On Friday, Thomas Roth, a Cologne-based computer security expert told the Reuters...

Cloud Security Alliance Releases New Toolkit

In an effort to better weigh the security of cloud-based infrastructures, the Cloud Security Alliance has released a new toolkit, the Governance, Risk Management and Compliance GRC Stack. Available as a free download on the organization’s website, the collection consists of three tools: CloudAudi...

Firm Scores $29M for Anti Botnet-As-A-Service

Endgame Systems is expanding from the government sector to commercial anti botnet services with a $29 million investment. The headlines in recent months have been filled with news about busts of major botnet operations – Bredolab, Pushdo, Waldec and Mariposa among them. But botnets are still a...

The Berkeley breach: Is SaaS the answer?

One recent Friday afternoon I took time off to visit two new health providers: a new dentist nearer my home and an orthopedic to look at my lateral epicondylitis. In both cases, as a new patient, I filled in page after page of medical history and personal information, including my Social Security...

IT staffs pressured to relax Web security

From SearchSecurity.com Rob Westervelt IT managers are under pressure from the top executives in their organizations to relax their policies on Web security in order to make users more productive. A new survey of more than 1,000 IT managers found that sales and marketing personnel also are leanin...

Should Microsoft be in the security business?

Gartner security analyst Neil MacDonald thinks there are five levels to the discussion gartner.com about whether Microsoft should be in the security business. They include secure coding obviously, secure functionality in the platform at no cost of course, add-on security products at a fee maybe a...

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