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Tech Futurist Sees Rosy Prospects for Net Security November 02, 2009 
Sometime between now and the year 2019, Comcast will start going after botnets and will stop sending malicious Web traffic to its customers. Google will send up more alarms if your search results include possibly infectious links. Microsoft and Apple will get better at plugging holes in their software.
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Ridding the Web of the XSS Scourge October 19, 2009 
Cross-site scripting/SQL injection attacks have been blamed for numerous data breaches, perhaps most notably the nightmare of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach. This type of attack has been around for at least a decade. However, the tendency for programmers to continue with old, insecure code writing techniques make XSS one of the most deadly methods for hackers.
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ICANN Cuts the Apron Strings October 02, 2009 
According to ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, nobody but nobody controls the Internet. Not China, not Comcast, not your IT guy, not Clippy, nobody. The Final Boss of the Internet does not exist. But there does exist a nonprofit that governs Web addresses, and that's Dengate Thrush's organization, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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Navigating the New Cybercrime Threatscape, Part 4 September 30, 2009 
Regardless of the agreements or disagreements on how individuals, companies and governments are to combat cybercrime, one fact stands true: Doing nothing is the worst posture to assume. Cyberrisk is as limitless as human determination, ingenuity and ignorance. As such, it is crucial we take the right measures to protect ourselves online.
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New Microsoft Security App Battens Down Windows for Free September 29, 2009 
Microsoft released version 1.0 of Microsoft Security Essentials, a free basic anti-malware service from Redmond, on Tuesday. This replaces Microsoft's discontinued Live OneCare Security-as-a-Service offering. Live OneCare customers can move to Microsoft Security Essentials once their subscriptions expire.
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Navigating the New Cybercrime Threatscape, Part 3 September 23, 2009 
With the constantly evolving Internet security threatscape, being able to actually get a grasp on the latest threats, let alone arm oneself against them, can seem overwhelming. While there are seemingly limitless best practices in regard to cybersecurity, below are several that should help reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim of cybercrime.
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Navigating the New Cybercrime Threatscape, Part 2 September 16, 2009 
The current threatscape, as with any landscape, can be viewed as endless vistas of changing complexities and unfathomable permutations of technologies, network topologies, risk scenarios and user requirements. It's the white noise of this dizzying array of technologies -- built upon an operating system monoculture -- which creates a healthy breeding ground for cybercrime.
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Navigating the New Cybercrime Threatscape, Part 1 September 09, 2009 
Cybercrime is pervasive, pandemic and increasingly connected with other parts of the criminal ecosystem. It ranges from the theft of an individual's identity to the complete disruption of a country's Internet connectivity due to a massive attack against its networking and computing resources.
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Snow Leopard to Prowl for Mac Malware? August 26, 2009 
Apple has reportedly included antimalware technologies in Snow Leopard, which will go on sale Friday. The news comes shortly after Apple released a fresh round of commercials indicating that the Mac, unlike PCs running Windows, is virus-free. Mac security software vendor Intego's blog carried a screenshot showing the antimalware feature detecting a version of the RSPlug Trojan horse in a downloaded disk image.
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On Bugs, Viruses, Malware and Linux August 10, 2009 
Among all the reasons geeks choose Linux, security is often near the top of the list. And no wonder -- personal preferences aside on all the other many relevant issues, there's plenty of evidence to suggest our favorite operating system really is more impervious.
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1 Million Linux Kernels Booted for Vast Botnet Simulation July 31, 2009 
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have laid the groundwork for an unprecedented simulation of a large-scale botnet after booting up 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines. They now are waiting for completion of a new, faster and more capable supercomputer on which they hope to run 10 million kernels in a simulation of the open Internet.
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Security Testers Spot Worrisome Weakness in SSL July 30, 2009 
Yet more Web security flaws have emerged to threaten Internet users, who are already bedeviled by the likes of drive-by attacks, SQL injections and spam. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers reportedly demonstrated serious flaws in the Secure Sockets Layer encryption protocol, a commonly used method of protecting communications on the Web.
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Mozilla Fixes Firefox JavaScript Glitch July 17, 2009 
Thursday marked yet another chapter in the short, rocky history of Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 browser, as the foundation released a security update a little more than two weeks after unveiling it. Firefox 3.5.1 fixes a JavaScript vulnerability in version 3.5 that exposed users to so-called drive-by attacks.
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Cyberattack Defense: Staying One Step Ahead of Hackers July 16, 2009 
Describing cyberterrorism as a "weapon of mass disruption," President Barack Obama released in late May the findings of a 60-day cybersecurity review. The statistics told the ugly story: Last year alone, cybercriminals stole intellectual property from businesses worldwide worth up to $1 trillion.
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Where Are the Cybercops? July 13, 2009 
The month of June saw a host of Web-based attacks compromising legitimate Web sites.
One, dubbed "Nine Ball," compromised more than 40,000 Web sites. Another attack injected a malicious script into large numbers of legitimate sites. What can be done about these attacks, and who's policing the Web anyhow?
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ActiveX Shark Stalks IE Surfers July 07, 2009 
Microsoft has warned Web surfers that an unused ActiveX control in Internet Explorer could let hackers launch malicious code on the user's system if it's running an older OS like Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Hackers have reportedly already begun exploiting the vulnerability, and security experts predict the attacks could get worse. Microsoft has posted a fix for the problem online.
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