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• DDoS Attacks Growing in 2013?
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 29 Apr 2013
  

  While distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been around since the late 1990s, they have picked up in volume and intensity over the past year.

  
  
• Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2013 Identifies Identity as Key Attack Vector
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 25 Apr 2013
  

  The 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) sheds light on the state of breaches in 2012 as they continue to expand.

  
  
• OpenStack Cloud Security Moving Forward
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 24 Apr 2013
  

  Security is improving in the open source OpenStack cloud platform, but more work is needed and is still being done.

  
  
• How Often Do You Forget Your Password?
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 19 Apr 2013
  

  Passwords hold a prominent place in the modern security landscape.

  
  
• Oracle Patches Java for Pwn2Own Flaws
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 17 Apr 2013
  

  Oracle has released its April Critical Patch Update (CPU) for Java, fixing no less than 41 vulnerabilities.

  
  
• Metasploit 4.6 Open Source Pen Testing Restores Webcam Exploits
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 16 Apr 2013
  

  Since 2003 the open source Metasploit framework has been actively developed and used as a penetration testing tool for IT security.

  
  
• How to Repel WordPress Brute Force Attacks
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 15 Apr 2013
  

  In a brute force attack, the attacker randomly tries username/password combinations until one works.

  
  
• Microsoft April Patch Tuesday Fixes (Some) IE Flaws
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 10 Apr 2013
  

  Microsoft fixes 14 CVEs in April Patch Tuesday, but outstanding issues remain, including a vulnerability demonstrated at last month's Pwn2Own event.

  
  
• [VIDEO] Quarri Technologies Founder on Browser Security
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 09 Apr 2013
  

  Browser security is about more than just the padlock in the HTML5 era

  
  
• How To Stop DNS Amplification DDoS Attack
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 02 Apr 2013
  

  A common DNS misconfiguration was at the core of last week's massive DDoS.

  
  
• Spamhaus DDoS Attack Doesn't Take Site, CloudFlare CDN or the Internet Down
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 28 Mar 2013
  

  On March 22, the largest DDoS attack yet seen in the history of the Internet hit the CloudFlare network.

  
  
• Apple Secures Users with 2-factor Authentication
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 25 Mar 2013
  

  At the heart of Apple's Mac OS X and iOS operating systems is the Apple ID authentication mechanism.

  
  
• [VIDEO] SSL 3.0 Co-Author Laments on What is Wrong and What is Right with SSL
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 21 Mar 2013
  

  Nearly two decades after he helped write SSL 3.0, Paul Kocher is looking to hardware for security.

  
  
• [VIDEO] Imation GM Mobile Security Lawrence Reusing
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 20 Mar 2013
  

  The GM of Imation's security unit says BYOD and removable storage need not create a security risk – at least not for enterprises with a plan.

  
  
• [VIDEO] Forget about SAS-70 You Want a SOC 2 Report for Cloud Security
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 19 Mar 2013
  

  The world of Cloud security standards is not for the faint of heart.

  
  
• Apple Mac OS X 10.8.3 Fixes Java Vulnerability
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 18 Mar 2013
  

  Apple is now out with Mac OS X 10.8.3, the first major update to Apple's flagship operating system in 2013.

  
  
• Bluebox Launches Dexter to Look Into Android Code
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 15 Mar 2013
  

  Thanks to the way that Java works and the efforts of a new mobile startup, digging into mobile code is easier than ever.

  
  
• Microsoft Plugs Evil Maid USB Flaws
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 13 Mar 2013
  

  Microsoft is out with its March Patch Tuesday update, issuing seven security bulletins dealing with flaws in Internet Explorer, Office, Silverlight and Windows.

  
  
• VIDEO: Akamai CSO Andy Ellis Talks CDN Security
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 12 Mar 2013
  

  Andy Ellis, CSO at Akamai, explains how the content dev network deals with security at a massive scale.

  
  
• VIDEO: Symantec CTO Stephen Trilling on Big Data Security
  By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 11 Mar 2013
  

  As the trend toward IT automation and Big Data increases, in a video interview Symantec's CTO still sees a place for humanity in enterprise security.