Heartbleed: VMware starts delivering patches
VMware has announced that it has started shipping patches for its products that have been impacted by the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug. “VMware is acutely aware of the …
Half of IT pros make undocumented changes to IT systems
57% of IT professionals have made undocumented changes to their IT systems that no one else knows about; while as many as 40% of organizations don’t have formal IT …
Businesses take little action to mitigate the insider threat
While businesses are growing increasingly aware of the insider threat, they still lack enforceable controls to stop and punish perpetrators. A LogRhythm survey of 1,000 IT …
First phase of TrueCrypt audit finds no backdoors
Remember when late last year cryptographer Matthew Green and Kenneth White, Principal Scientist at Social & Scientific Systems, called for – and then organized …
Growing concerns over data privacy
Almost nine in ten (88%) US consumers are at least “a little” concerned about the privacy of their personal data, according to GfK. One in three consumers also …
Confirmed Heartbleed victim: Canada Revenue Agency
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has been breached by attackers that leveraged the newly discovered Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL and managed to compromise Social Insurance Numbers …
52% of enterprises defenseless against cyber attacks
55 % of IT and security professionals have either zero or low visibility of employee behavior, application access and software downloads as they struggle to secure the …
Heartbleed: Private crypto keys can be extracted from vulnerable servers
The recently discovered Heartbleed bug can be exploited to obtain private encryption keys from vulnerable websites, Web services firm CloudFlare confirmed late on Friday. The …
Security still the biggest concern for cloud adoption
IT companies say tighter security tops the list of their clients’ concerns, rating even more important than mobile-device management, support for the cloud and data …
Jetpack pushes update to close critical security hole
The developers of Jetpack, one of the most widely used WordPress plugins, are urging users to download and implement the latests versions that fix a critical security bug. …
Appeals court overturns AT&T hacker’s sentence
A US federal appeals court has vacated the conviction and sentence received by Andrew “weev” Auernheimer for the AT&T iPad hack. Auernheimer, a hacker and …
Week in review: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Windows XP reaches end of line
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews, reviews and articles: Does IP convergence open you up to hackers? Recent reports …