Microsoft Readying Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed

New York City – Microsoft has proven that it can take down huge, global botnets like Kelihos, Rustock and Waldec. Now the company is ready to start making the data it acquires in those busts available to governments, law enforcement and customers as a real time threat intelligence feed...

Massachusetts Inaugurates New Cyber Security Center

Hundreds of business leaders and academics joined Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley to launch the state’s Advanced Cyber Security Center ACSC, one of the first of its kind in the nation. Speaking at the local headquarters of the MITRE Corporation, Patrick an...

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download !

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download ! HES aims at anticipating the challenges of the security world and gathers together underground or amateur security researchers together with professional security expert researchers and technical decision makers. During three days, HES will...

Of Night Dragons and Silver Bullets

Reading the headlines today one could not help but notice the latest installment of “scary Chinese hacker press” making the headlines. And who can blame the news media for latching on to this story as it has all the right ingredients: foreign governments targeting U.S. interests, catchy nicknames...

New Bill Would Give DHS New Power Over Private Networks

The latest in what has become a long line of legislation introduced in the House and the Senate in 2010 that attempts to address the country’s computer security shortcomings is a new measure brought forward by Rep. Bennie Thompson that would, among other things, allow the to force certain private...

Five Important Security Resolutions for Adobe

The year was 2001. Code Red, the Microsoft Web Server worm was running rampant and underscored every security professional’s perception that Microsoft products were both a necessary evil and a serious security liability. Fast-forward to nine years later. Microsoft products still contain more than...