Epsilon Ups Ante on Security Following Breach

Nearly three months after marketing services firm Epsilon had its system breached, the company has begun to rebuild the security of its e-mail marketing platform. The firm has unveiled an array of enhancements they claim will mitigate “electronic crimes in motion” according to a press release...

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia Hackers around the world are gaining more attention than usual in the last few months. Now Google has added another announcement to the pile that hundreds of Gmail accounts have been hacked recently. Now, Google affirms that the...

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...

Mobile Devices Key To Facebook's New Log-In Approval Feature

Facebook is implementing a new opt-in, two-factor verification security feature they are calling log-in approval. The new feature will require users to enter a unique, one time code, which Facebook will send via SMS whenever a user tries to access his or her account from a new and/or unrecognized...

Facebook Adds Two-Factor Authentication

Social networking giant Facebook announced on Tuesday that it was introducing a two-factor security feature that will make user accounts harder to hijack. The announcement was part of a group of security enhancements by Facebook that includes improved secure HTTP features and social reporting too...

Comodo Says Two More Registration Authorities Compromised

Officials at Comodo have acknowledged that an additional two registration authorities affiliated with the company have been compromised in the wake of the high-profile attack on the company that was disclosed last week. However, no forged certificates were issued as a result of the new attacks. I...

HBGary CEO Speaks Out On Anonymous Hack

Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary, admits that lackluster security at his company played a central role in the breach that led to the release of some 50,000 company emails, but also disputes common understanding and reported details of the hack and the group behind it, going so far as to say there was...

RSA Warns Customers Of Targeted Attacks In Wake of Hack

RSA, the security division of EMC Corp. has warned customers to be on the lookout for targeted attacks, including suspicious messages and links sent over social media networks in the wake of a sophisticated attack that spilled confidential information about the workings of the company’s SecurID...

Greg Hoglund Discusses HBGary Mishap

Greg Hoglund, CTO of HBGary, admits that lackluster security played a central role in the breach that led to the release of some 50,000 company emails, but also disputes common understanding and reported details of the hack, going so far as to say there was actually no hack at all. In an intervie...

After hack, RSA Release Open Letter to RSA Customers !

Just now Top security firm RSA Security revealed by extremely sophisticated hack, Read complete Story here - Now, RSA Release Open Letter to RSA Customers, as given below : Like any large company, EMC experiences and successfully repels multiple cyber attacks on its IT infrastructure every day...

Top security firm RSA Security revealed by extremely sophisticated hack !

Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it's been the victim of an "extremely sophisticated" hack. The company said in a note posted on its website that the intruders succeeded in stealing information related to the company's SecurID two-factor authentication products. SecurID ad...

RSA Hack Yields SecurID Secrets

RSA Security, a division of EMC Corp. has admitted that it was the victim of a sophisticated attack that resulted in the theft of secrets related to its SecurID two-factor authentication product. The disclosure came in a blog post by RSA chief Art Coviello on Thursday. Coviello said that the...

India to Increase Phone Banking Security Starting Next Month !

Starting with January 1st, 2011, Indian banks will require an additional security code in order to authorise phone banking transactions, according to regulatory guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India RBI. Known as one-time passwords OTP, these codes are part of what is known as two-factor...

Internal Memo Outlines Gawker's Security Plan

After a hack of systems belonging to online publishing giant Gawker Media that yielded more than one million passwords, the online media company’s chief technology officer has announced new defense strategies aimed at placating their users and preventing further humiliating data breaches. Gawker...

Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Apps Accounts

Google has added a two-factor authentication mechanism to the login procedure for its Google Apps offerings, hoping that the addition will help cut down on the amount of fraudulent activity on these accounts. The way that Google has chosen to approach the problem of two-factor authentication is...

Allow user accounts to require two-factor authentication using RFC 4226

New feature request. In light of the recent security hack at Apache, it might be prudent for JIRA to provide some more secure options for user authentication. One candidate is two-factor authentication using the RFC 4226 OATH/HOTP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTP standard. This requires the user...

Allow user accounts to require two-factor authentication using RFC 4226

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-20999. panel New feature request. In light of the recent security hack at Apache, it might be prudent for JIRA to provide some more secure...

Allow user accounts to require two-factor authentication using RFC 4226

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Server. Using JIRA Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-20999. panel New feature request. In light of the recent security hack at Apache, it might be prudent for JIRA to provide some more secure...

Here's How to Fix Online Banking Fraud

Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Over the last few months, there’s been quite a lot of news chatter around Banker Trojans emptying out online bank accounts of small businesses in the U.S. Today, I was reading one of such stories on Brian Krebs’ site. After reading that story I came across...

Strong Authentication Has Been Weakened

Fraudsters have started to raid user accounts by beating strong two-factor authentication methods with Trojan-based, man-in-the-browser attacks, said Gartner Research. Read the full article. Help Net Security...