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May 28, 2009

Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:39 AM/CST

Miscreants Already Gaming SCADA

Infrastructure security has been an issue with plenty of hype but too few real-world examples of the involved risks. A simple hack unearthed By researchers via YouTube paints the picture nicely, however.

April 25, 2009

Saturday, April 25, 2009 12:48 PM/CST

Infrastructure Security Trapped at Dangerous Crossroads

Organizations doing business in the critical grid infrastructure space need to up the ante when it comes to IT security, leading experts in the field reported at the RSA Conference.

April 24, 2009

Friday, April 24, 2009 3:11 PM/CST

Hathaway at RSA: Obama Admin's Missed Opportunity

The Obama Administration missed a huge opportunity by limiting what Cyber Czar Melissa Hathaway could report at RSA.

March 15, 2009

Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:20 AM/CST

Vulnerability Management Payoff Requires Road Map

Vulnerability management is a process that takes a good deal of upfront work and cooperation from business units, observed experts speaking at the SOURCE Boston conference this week.

March 10, 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:28 PM/CST

Who Wants to be Cyber Czar?

Outgoing Cyber Czar Rod Beckstrom might not have failed in his yearlong term when you consider all the issues involved.

April 21, 2008

Monday, April 21, 2008 10:19 AM/CST

Chinese Hackers Knock SportsNetwork Offline; CNN.com Survives

A planned cyber-attack against CNN.com fizzled over the weekend, but The Sports Network did not survive the DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) assault by Chinese hackers. At 10:00 a.m. on Monday morning, The Sports Network home page carried this note: "The Sports...

March 19, 2008

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:24 AM/CST

Hannaford Data Breach: The Security Vendor Conundrum

Whenever a news story breaks about a major data breach, PR folks representing security vendors trip over themselves to clog my inbox with "our-solution-could-have-prevented-that" notes. For Rapid7, a company that hawks vulnerability assessment, PCI compliance and Web application scanning...

January 21, 2008

Monday, January 21, 2008 11:42 AM/CST

IE7 Coming Through on WSUS, Blocker Toolkit or Not

Larry Seltzer here, pointing you to this recent Knowledge Base article with Microsoft's announcement that Internet Explorer 7 will be distributed through WSUS (Windows Software Update Services) on Feb. 12, 2008, which is the next Patch Tuesday. It will...

January 14, 2008

Monday, January 14, 2008 5:23 PM/CST

Calling Security Folks in New York

Tomorrow, Tuesday January 15th, I'll be joining a bunch of security folks for the monthly NYSEC meet-up in New York City. This is an informal gathering where we meet in a bar downtown (Pound and Pence) for networking and...

January 10, 2008

Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:15 PM/CST

Google Looking for Internal Security Cop

Clearly worried about the insider threat to its corporate assets, search marketing giant Google is looking for an Investigator/Threat Analyst to examine "deviations from company policies or acts against Google." According to a job listing first sighted by Search...

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