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February 8, 2012

Definition of Cyber War Remains Elusive, Even for Security Experts

"Cyber war" is a term that gets tossed around a lot these days. With every new style of attack, someone will predict that we have entered into cyber war and all sorts of experts will try to figure ... More >

February 5, 2012

VeriSign Repeatedly Hacked in 2010

Reuters revealed just a few days ago that VeriSign was repeatedly hacked during 2010. And the news release may never have happened if it weren’t for new guidelines on reporting security breaches to... More >

February 3, 2012

Old Versions of WordPress Compromised

A new attack against old versions of WordPress is a reminder of the importance of always performing updates when prompted. We saw how using old versions of IE, IE6 in particular, led to all kinds of ... More >

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Break The "Add More Nodes" Cycle: IBM Netezza Data Warehouse Appliances Allow Your Data Infrastructure to Scale

This white paper explores the reasons so many customers have begun to incorporate high-performance, IBM Netezza data warehouse appliances into their existing teradata infrastructures and the performance and scalability benefits this approach has provided.

February 2, 2012

Have Cyber Threats Passed Terrorism as Top Threat Against the U.S.?

Earlier this week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that cyber threats against the country are going to surpass terrorism as the top threat facing the United States. Those cyber threats could ... More >

February 1, 2012

Majority of IT Managers Want to Improve Risk Management

So often we hear about the things employees do to put enterprise security at risk. In a survey of IT managers, Courion Corporation asked what some of those risks were. The answers weren’t too surpr... More >

January 30, 2012

Security Companies Disagree on Android Botnet

The Android OS has been hit with a very serious Trojan and a number of apps available in the Android Market are malicious.   Or maybe not.   There are some very conflicting reports coming f... More >

January 27, 2012

Old Storage Devices Are Prime Security Risk

I see that International Data Privacy Day is sneaking up on us . It is tomorrow, Jan. 28. According to a release on the event: This year, the focus of Data Privacy Day is on the protection of digita... More >

January 26, 2012

A Cybersecurity State of the Union

On Tuesday night, I was one of those people who attentively watched the State of the Union address. I would have watched no matter what because I always do, but this year, I was interested to hear if... More >

January 25, 2012

Users Not Doing Enough Is a Top Security Threat

According to the newly released Sophos Security Threat Report 2012 , at the end of 2011, 67 percent of those surveyed were focused on the rise of malware, while 61 percent felt that the biggest thre... More >

January 23, 2012

Security Top Concern for Businesses Contemplating the Cloud

Data security is one of the primary reasons that companies are hesitant about moving into the cloud. A recent study by the Cloud Industry Forum found that 62 percent of its respondents claimed data ... More >

January 20, 2012

Has Anonymous Moved to a New Level of Hacktivism?

“Anonymous is out for blood.” That was the text message I got from my son last night after word came out that the hacking group had attacked government websites after the file-sharing site Megaupload... More >

January 19, 2012

It'll Take a Village to Fight APTs

I’m sure you are familiar with the saying “it takes a village to raise a child.” As I’ve gotten older, I’ve begun to realize that it takes a village to do a lot of things — or at least, you can accom... More >

January 18, 2012

Victims of Zappos Breach Wary of Company's Response

The Zappos breach is generating a lot of conversation among people who have no interest whatsoever in overall cybersecurity. When places like Lockheed Martin or RSA suffer a breach, the average perso... More >

January 16, 2012

Israeli Credit Card Breach: Political Statement?

Like many security companies, Coreo made a few cyber threat predictions for 2012. They are:   More organizations will realize that they have compromised computers in their infrastructure already... More >

January 13, 2012

New Zeus Variant Really Is 'Game Over'

First it was Ramnit being reinvented . Now Zeus is back for a return performance, and it has the attention of the FBI because it outsmarts most user authentication methods . As explained by ZDNet ... More >

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