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Enterprise Threat Management (ETM): Bringing Security Together Through Intelligence

While IT security spending has been on the increase in recent years, unfortunately so have vulnerabilities and successful attacks. Enterprises are still being infected with undetected, targeted malware - evading traditional perimeter and host defenses. Professional hackers are in it for the profit now and are creating sophisticated ways to...

Tags: IT Security, Sourcefire Inc., Professional Hacker, Security

Webcasts 2009-01-01

Additional Resources

The ultimate guide to scareware protection

Throughout the last two years, scareware fake security software, quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive advertising practices applied by the cybercrime gangs, thousands of users fall victim to the scam on a daily...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Search Engine, Antivirus, Malware, Social Engineering, Security Software, Search, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-13

Hacker named to Homeland Security Advisory Council

Hacker named to Homeland Security Advisory CouncilCrooks hire CrooksWhere else can a crook get a Job.Crooks in D.C. hire crooks to help the crooked Gov't do crooked things to help the crooked Banks and crooked companies the politicians award contracts to while decent people get rolled because they follow the...

Tags: Hacking, crook, hacker, Homeland Security Advisory Council, security, homeland security

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

News to know: Google; Facebook; HP battery recall

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws Larry Dignan: Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities Sam Diaz: Google outage...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Twitter, Engineering, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-05-15

McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs

McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCsWouldn't it be best to inform peopleIf they have zombie PC's in their homes? I mean, it isn't like the ISP's couldn't see that "Hey, this data is shooting to a known zombie PC site.... let's inform the person who uses this...

Tags: Zombie PC, McAfee Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Would you hold off buying 09-10 PCs to get Windows 7?

Would you hold off buying 09-10 PCs to get Windows 7?Your story makes little sense.Microsoft and the OEMs always have free upgrade coupons to prevent people from holding off their purchases. You don't give enough choices in your little poll!RE: Would you hold off buying 09-10 PCs to get...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu 9.04, PC

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

How far does Conficker infection of British government go?

How far does Conficker infection of British government go?the Government harvesting everyone?s electronic dataAlways wondered who'd be watching the watchers,the criminals will. Be afraid. Be very afraid!No one is safe, anywhere!You never know who will end up owning important data about you, gaining power over you and other unsuspecting potential...

Tags: SECURITY, NETWORKING, Conficker infection, Conficker, British Government, infection

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Charlie Miller: Macs lacking in security

Charlie Miller: Macs lacking in securityWhat do professional hackers know about hacking?Miller brings up the tired marketshare defense but seriously, what does a professional hacker know about hacking? [b]NOTHING!![/b] I'd much rather believe people like frgough who, in his professional expertise, tell us that marketshare isn't what keeps OS X...

Tags: Desktops, Hacking, Apple Macintosh, Charlie Miller, security, Miller

Discussion threads 2009-03-25

Security Toolbar Icons 2009.1 (Windows)

If your new product has anything to do with computer protection of any type - from viruses and other malware to network attacks--als will quickly find the right functions and commands from the menu and less experienced users will most probably start from the main window and its toolbars. If...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Icon, Aha-soft, Security Toolbar Icons, Productivity, Security

Software downloads 2009-03-25

Nils2Own: 'I want to see security flaws fixed'

Nils2Own: 'I want to see security flaws fixed'Small one, big one....It was still cracked. Even easier than Windows. Deal with it.You're not allowed to whine "This one's not really that big of a deal", then point out the same kinds of intrusions into Windows systems as proof that MS products...

Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, Apple OSX user, Apple OSX, security, Apple Inc., Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, security flaw

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

MPRESS 2.12 (Windows)

MPRESS high-performance executable packer for PE32/PE32+/.NET executable formats. MPRESS makes programs and libraries smaller, and decrease start time when the application loaded from a slow removable media or from the network. It uses in-place decompression technique, which allows to decompress the executable without memory overhead or other drawbacks; it also...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, MATCODE Software, Productivity, Leadership, Management

Software downloads 2009-03-21

Apple, threatening customers isn

Apple, threatening customers isnApple is making me glad I'm not a customerOne could say that all companies behave, to some degree, as badly as Apple has been behaving the last few years but what makes it even worse is that Apple sells itself as "the little guy who cares about...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Apple Inc., digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

Should Microsoft decouple IE from Patch Tuesday?

A security researcher wants Microsoft to follow the lead of other browser makers and start fixing Internet Explorer security problems outside of the Patch Tuesday cycle to help contain the Windows malware epidemic. [ Microsoft: ‘Consistent exploit code likely’ for IE vulnerabilities ] According...

Tags: Patch Management, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Browser Patch, Web Browsers, Patches, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Hack Your Own Information Security Career

Often time's youngsters aspiring to be Information Security professional mistake Information Security to be a professional approach to the world "Hacking". In other words if one is an aspiring hacker he would definitely be looking at this domain as a career option. After all who does not want to get...

Tags: Information Security, InfySec Risk Management Team, Professional Development, Security, Career

White papers 2009-01-19

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?RE: Palin e-mail hacker indictedIf someone opened your U.S. mail box and took your mail he or she would be prosecuted and possibly jailed . . . this is no different.RE: Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice...

Tags: Social Security, Palin, Palin e-mail hacker, e-mail hacker, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks out

Alarmed about Vista security? Black Hat researcher Alexander Sotirov speaks outNicely doneI appreciate that you took the time to speak with the researcher who actually discovered the flaws.There are a couple of bloggers on ZDNET who always seem slant their "blogs" with grandiose claims against one platform or technology.I think...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Blogging, Black Hat, Microsoft Windows Vista, Alexander Sotirov, Microsoft Corp., security

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

The OneSign Guide to Thwarting Insider Threats

When people think about IT saboteurs, most of them picture a professional cyber-criminal or hacker bent on stealing confidential information or wreaking havoc. In both cases, the perpetrator is an outside party who breaches the data network of a company, institution, or government entity with malicious intent. In response to...

Tags: Insider Threat, Information Technology, Imprivata, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-08-01

A look at the recent Firefox 3 vulnerability

A look at the recent Firefox 3 vulnerabilityLOLAlways makes me laugh when a Firefox article is written critical of it, no one adds an opinion.If this were about IE, the thread would be huge.quit making such a big deal, read moreWhy do people write about security vulnerabilities that have happened...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

If hackers don't get you, maybe Google will

Two weeks ago my personal blog StorageMojo was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here's how it works and tips on protecting yourself. "Don't be evil" is a pretty low bar There’s been a lot of blog hacking going...

Tags: Google Inc., Site, Hosting Company, Hacker, StorageMojo, Blogging, Security, Internet, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-05-18

Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists

Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware site, and third-party exploit detection tools are also detecting internal pages as exploit hosting ones, in this particular case Mal/Badsrc-A....

Tags: Redmond, SQL, SQL Injection, F**k, Mal/Badsrc-A, Programming Languages, Databases, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-16