Veracode Claims ‘Information Security Product of the Year’
We are extremely excited to announce that the Veracode Platform has been chosen as SC Magazine’s Information Security Product of the Year. The award was in recognition of the company’s innovative...
View ArticleFrom the Trenches: Worst IT Mistakes, Part 3
By Chuck Romano Concluding my series about the worst IT mistakes I’ve witnessed in my 10+ years as a technician, I’ll highlight two notable IT atrocities I’ve seen people make. So let’s dive right in:...
View ArticleThe Jean-Paul Sartre approach to Startups
My nothing is better than yours! http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/04/26/silicon-valleys-hottest-new-start-up-idea-nothing/ [Pivot] I’d like to suggest a few ideas that you might find...
View ArticleCritical Bug Reported In Oracle Servers
There’s a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in all of the current versions of the Oracle database server that can enable an attacker to intercept traffic and execute arbitrary commands on...
View ArticlePublic cloud security – 5 conversations that will shape your cloud security...
Today we hosted another of our Converged Cloud chats on Twitter using the #ConvCloud hashtag. If you missed it, you missed a conversation of epic proportions - a massive thank you for the throngs of...
View ArticleSeveral Carding Sites Taken Down
The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has shut down 36 web sites that it said were trading in stolen credit card information, including http://ccstore.biz and http://cvvplaza.com. Here's a...
View ArticleThis is not an email from Careerbuilder
See the URL that appears when you hover over the words “Senior Team Lead”? I received about half a dozen versions of this spam mail overnight.
View ArticleEmails with embedded URL ***.zip downloads malicious file
MX Lab, http://www.mxlab.eu, started to intercept a new trojan distribution campaign by email with an embedded URL to download a ZIP file. The campaign is very similar to the previous one but the URLs...
View ArticleEmails with embedded URL ***.zip downloads new type of malicious file
MX Lab, http://www.mxlab.eu, intercepted a new email with an embedded URL to download a ZIP file while writing the article “Emails with embedded URL ***.zip downloads malicious file“. This time, the...
View ArticleLockdown WordPress – A Security Webinar with Dre Armeda
We had the opportunity to do a webinar about WordPress security with the guys from iThemes yesterday. Here’s the video for those of you who missed out on the fun: Dre Armeda from Sucuri Security...
View Article[New White Paper] Watching the Watchers: Guarding the Keys to the Kingdom
Given the general focus on most organizations on the attackers out there, they may miss the attackers that actually have the credentials and knowledge to do some real damage. These are your so-call...
View ArticleBusiness Continuity Standards Don’t Matter — But They Should
The current state of business continuity management (BCM) standards? Abysmal. According to a joint Forrester/DRJ study, 69% of respondents said that British Standard (BS) 25999 did not influence or...
View ArticleBrazilian Banking Malware: Pay Your Bill Slacker!
I recently got wind of an interesting little sample that I believe originated as part of a Brazilian phishing attack. The sample appears to still be quite unknown, as VirusTotal reports currently...
View ArticleOpenStack – What the future holds
So Krishnan Subramanian, in the Google+ hangout that he kindly arranged, asked "What next would you like to see or expect to happen in OpenStack project this year?" My more structured response is: -...
View ArticleUbuntu 12.04 LTS released
I can't say I'm fond of the Linux in the HUD (Heads Up Display). I'm still getting used to the "Dash Home" search box that becomes only intermittently available (e.g. disappears over time after...
View ArticleHow to Choose a Video Surveillance Contractor
Even though the market is flooded with DIY camera systems, hiring a competent professional to design and install your video surveillance equipment is usually well worth the extra cost. When looking for...
View ArticleInfoSec Daily Podcast Episode 654
Episode 654 - @PentestLessons, CISPA Passed, RuggedCom, 36 CC Sites, Smuggling Halted, Big Brother, and Hotmail 0-day
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