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Hewlett-Packard’s move this week to buy Fortify software focuses attention on the increasingly important, but still mostly underutilized category of application security products, security experts say.
Privately-held Fortify will provide HP with a set of technologies for on-premise testing of applications through all stages of the development process through deployment.
The planned acquisition complements HP’s 2007 [...] Read more »

Posted on August 20th, 2010 under Security News. Tags: Hewlett Packard, HP-Fortify, Security, Security Applications, Web Security. Comments: None

Security managers can keep blocking Facebook, refusing to support mobile devices and vetoing cloud-based services, but they aren’t going away. And ignoring ways to make room for them in your security program is like burying your head in the sand, according to Tom Gillis, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s security technology business unit, [...] Read more »

Posted on June 28th, 2010 under Security News. Tags: catch up, Cybersecurity, Cyberthreat, update security, web 2.0, Web Security. Comments: None

A security researcher has disclosed details on more than a dozen previously unknown vulnerabilities that people responding to web-based attacks can exploit to strike back at online assailants.
The bugs reside in off-the-shelf crimeware kits that go by names such as Eleonore, Liberty, Neon, and Yes. Attackers install them on compromised websites to streamline the process [...] Read more »

Posted on June 21st, 2010 under Consumer Cyber Alert, Security News. Tags: attack attackers, Cyber Security, cyber strike back, Security, strike back, Web Security. Comments: None

If there’s a lesson to be learned here, I suppose it’s something along the lines of, “Don’t enter any personal information in the videogame porn that you download from Japanese torrent sites.” Really, that seems like a pretty good takeaway from just about any story.
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Users downloading a hentai (pornographic anime genre) game from Japanese file-sharing [...] Read more »

Posted on May 2nd, 2010 under Consumer Cyber Alert, Cyber Crime, Identity Theft, Security Alerts, Security News. Tags: Cyberattack, hentai, Privacy, Security, Virus, Web Security. Comments: None

At least a quarter of the command and control servers linked to Zeus-related botnets have suddenly gone quiet, continuing a recent trend of takedowns hitting some of the world’s most nefarious cyber operations.
The massive drop is the result of actions taken by two Eastern European network providers. On Tuesday, they pulled the plug on their [...] Read more »

Posted on April 9th, 2010 under Bots, Internet Monitoring, Security News. Tags: Active Control, Botnets, Cisco Systems, Control Servers, Mariposa, Network Providers, Network Service Provider, Researcher, Takedown, Takedowns, Web Security, Zeus. Comments: None

Facebook has taken the unusual step of warning users about a bogus password reset scam designed to trick victims into downloading a password-stealing Trojan.
Prospective marks are falsely told in widely distributed spam emails that their password has been changed because of a supposed security incident. Targets are invited to open an email attachment for more [...] Read more »

Posted on April 2nd, 2010 under Consumer Cyber Alert, Email, Facebook, Security Alerts, Security News, Virus & Malware. Tags: Consumers, Email Attachment, Emails, Facebook, Firm Reports, Keystroke, Malware, Map, Mcafee, New Email, Password Reset, Password Stealing, Security Firm, Security Incident, Targets, Theregister, Trojan, Web Reports, Web Security. Comments: None