U.S. DoD’s cybersecurity force to increase fivefold
The Pentagon is poised to start searching for more than 4,000 new employees for the Defense Department’s Cyber Command, in a bid to boost its cyber defensive and …
Events that defined the European information security landscape in 2012
The past 12 months have been, to say the least, an active time for the information security landscape in Europe. Hacktivism stories dominated mainstream media outlets, the …
Facebook’s CPO tackles privacy policy questions
When late last year Facebook changed its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy, the social network’s users lost their right to vote on future …
Encrypted video and texting for iPhone and iPad
ZipaClip is a secure mobile video and texting application for iOS devices. The free version of ZipaClip allows users to send and receive fully-encrypted texts and video clips …
Trojan uses anti-spam system to keep in touch with C&C servers
Most malware is severely crippled if it can’t contact the C&C servers from which it receives its instructions and updates, so malware authors are constantly coming …
How taxpayers can protect themselves against identity theft
ThreatMetrix has identified the top precautions taxpayers should take when e-filing to protect their returns against cybercriminals. According to Forbes, more than 80 percent …
AV developer Avast starts bug bounty program
Avast, the Prague-based maker of the popular eponymous AV software, has announced the introduction of a bug bounty program. Rewards are offered only for security-related bugs …
Vormetric Vault: Manage certificates, keys and security objects
Vormetric announced Vormetric Vault, an all-in-one scalable solution for protecting and managing digital certificates, encryption keys and other security objects such as …
WordPress 3.5.1 fixes 37 bugs
WordPress 3.5.1, now available for download, is a maintenance and security release for all previous versions that fixes 37 bugs. WordPress 3.5.1 also addresses the following …
Hackers the movie: A retrospective
In this lecture, Don A. Bailey will take a look back at another great milestone in information security: the movie Hackers. In this retrospective from Hack in The Box 2012, …
Week in review: Backdoors in Barracuda appliances, and what makes a good information security professional?
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews, videos, interviews and articles: Newest Java update doesn’t fix fresh critical …
GitHub’s new search reveals passwords and private keys
GitHub, the popular online source code repository, has unveiled on Wednesday a new search infrastructure that should help coders find specific code within the millions of the …