Monday, April 21, 2008 10:19 AM/CST
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...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:24 AM/CST
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...
Monday, January 21, 2008 11:42 AM/CST
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...
Monday, January 14, 2008 5:23 PM/CST
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...
Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:15 PM/CST
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...
Monday, January 07, 2008 2:02 PM/CST
Boeing's new 787-8 Dreamliner airplane contains several "novel or unusual design features" that are exposed to in-flight hacking attacks, according to a caution from the Federal Aviation Authority. The warning, contained in a document posted to Cryptome.org, centers around...
Friday, October 05, 2007 3:26 PM/CST
All the craziness with the Feds pushing California's government domain off the continental shelf earlier this week makes you wonder what sort of disaster recovery they've got. They sure need it, between earthquakes, wildfires and the GSA's profoundly unhelpful helpfulness...
