Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the...

FTC pulls plug on spam, child porn ISP

A rogue Internet Service Provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content has been shut down by a district court judge at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. The ISP’s upstream provider...

RSA Cryptographer's Panel: Cloud Computing Takes Center Stage

Not so surprising, the state elders of cryptography had a few things to say about the security of cloud computing — but with little agreement. Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, kicked off the cloud security discussion, stating that while securing the cloud computing...

Supported SmartDefense and Web Intelligence Protections for VPN-1 VSX NGX Gateways

VPN-1 VSX provides a set of virtual components acting as real network devices such as Firewall gateways, routers, switches, and network cables. Using these virtual components, network topologies are created that are functionally equivalent to networks built with physical devices. Each Virtual...