News

• Mayor of New Jersey town arrested on hacking and conspiracy charges

  By Lucian Constantin | 25 May, 2012 15:45

  The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and his administration.

• Intel launches Cloud-based single sign-on service

  By Antone Gonsalves | 23 May, 2012 13:42

  Listed on AppExchange, Cloud SSO has been tightly integrated with Salesforce.com applications

• Banking malware monitors victims by hijacking webcams and microphones, researchers say

  By Lucian Constantin | 23 May, 2012 02:07

  A new variant of SpyEye malware allows cybercriminals to monitor potential bank fraud victims by hijacking their webcams and microphones, according to security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab.

• Hospital system pursues identity-management Holy Grail

  By Ellen Messmer | 17 May, 2012 06:28

  It's an ideal in identity management: a centralized role-based access control system that supports single-sign-on (SSO) user access to authorized applications tied into the human resources systems for automated provisioning and de-provisioning, and the ability to integrate physical-security identity badges for room access.

• Forrester outlines 5 rising, 5 declining security technologies

  By Ellen Messmer | 16 May, 2012 02:45

  Security technologies rise and fall in popularity, and Forrester Research in its TechRadar report puts its bets on five it thinks are in a growth mode and five it thinks are dying away.

• BeyondTrust acquires eEye in union of security vendors

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 May, 2012 14:32

  BeyondTrust, a software firm that specializes in identity and access management for the enterprise, has announced the acquisition of eEye Digital Security, which makes products for vulnerability management, patch remediation, malware defense and configuration compliance.

• BeyondTrust acquires eEye in union of security vendors

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 May, 2012 14:32

  BeyondTrust, a software firm that specializes in identity and access management for the enterprise, has announced the acquisition of eEye Digital Security, which makes products for vulnerability management, patch remediation, malware defense and configuration compliance.

• Will BYOD revive the network-access control idea? Gartner thinks it will

  By Ellen Messmer | 08 May, 2012 20:34

  Is the BYOD craze going to bring a revival of NAC, the policy-based network-access control that was hyped a decade ago but didn't end up widely adopted for endpoint security?

• How to fight back against privacy pirates

  By Julie Sartain | 07 May, 2012 21:27

  Have you Googled yourself lately? Is the information about you accurate or full of inconsistencies, both of which can be devastating?

• Commercial enterprises are putting our critical infrastructure at risk

  By Sean Martin, a CISSP and the founder of imsmartin consulting | 05 May, 2012 07:33

  Cybercriminals have already figured out how to hack into enterprise infrastructure, and the critical infrastructure that controls our nation's supply of water, gas, oil and electricity just might be next.

• How to land a cybersecurity job

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 04 May, 2012 00:33

  Cybersecurity jobs are plentiful, from government, financial services and utilities to manufacturing and retail. But what skills do IT professionals need to qualify for these high-paying jobs?

• Most of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS websites are insecure, Trustworthy Internet Movement says

  By Lucian Constantin | 27 April, 2012 02:51

  Ninety percent of the Internet's top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are vulnerable to known types of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) attack, according to a report released Thursday by the Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), a nonprofit organization dedicated to solving Internet security, privacy and reliability problems.

• Enterasys to demo mobile management software for BYOD

  By Jim Duffy | 26 April, 2012 08:28

  Enterasys plans to display at Interop next month an appliance for mobile device management (MDM), spurred by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon at the workplace.

• Microsoft Windows RT tablets will be more security friendly than iPad, Android devices

  By Tim Greene | 21 April, 2012 07:23

  Microsoft can perform a type of network access control on Windows RT devices as a way to protect corporate networks from harm these devices might inflict if put to corporate use, making them a cut above iPads and Android tablets in this regard.

• Security, privacy ideas emerge at Demo Spring conference

  By Stephen Lawson | 20 April, 2012 03:38

  The cool new Internet ideas of yesteryear often create the headaches of today, and some startups at the Demo conference are starting to try to solve those problems.