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- Security Stats Show Mixed Trends for 1H 2013
By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 30 Sep 2013Reports out in recent weeks provide fresh fuel for the analysis of IT security and what is under attack.
- Two-Factor Security Comes to the Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud
By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 30 Sep 2013The cloud is no more and no less secure than the controls that enterprises, users and cloud providers put in place.
- VIDEO: Mozilla Director of Security Assurance Michael Coates
By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 27 Sep 2013In a video interview, Coates explains what his role is at Mozilla and how the open source organization goes about building security into everything it does.
- VIDEO: Kevin Mitnick Details Modern IT Threats
By Sean Michael Kerner | Sun, 22 Sep 2013One of the most infamous hackers of all time talks about Website security and what users should do to protect themselves.
- VIDEO: How Adobe's Chief Security Officer Made Security a Product Priority
By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 13 Sep 2013VIDEO: Adobe Chief Security Officer Brad Arkin explains how his company went from dealing with zero-day flaws on a regular basis to making security a core principle of the entire company's development efforts.
- WordPress Updates Open Source Blogging Platform for Security
By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 13 Sep 2013The widely deployed blogging platform is being updated for security and bug fixes.
- Microsoft Fumbles Outlook Update
By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 13 Sep 2013Microsoft is once again facing user backlash over a failed patch update cycle.
- AlienVault Moves Unified Security Management Push Forward
By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 12 Sep 2013With $62 million in funding, the CEO of open-source security startup AlienVault is gearing up for the challenge of PCI-DSS 3 compliance.
- Apple Fingerprints, Keychain: Why Randomness Matters
By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 12 Sep 2013Fingerprint-based authentication is coming to the mainstream with the iPhone 5S, but is it about real security, or is it about ease of use?
- Google Encrypts to Evade NSA Surveillance: Should You?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 11 Sep 2013As Google ramps up its data-encryption efforts, now is a good time for enterprises to consider their own data-protection postures.
- Microsoft Takes Aim at Critical Outlook Vulnerability In September Patch Update
By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 11 Sep 2013Microsoft fixes 47 different security issues in its September Patch Tuesday update affecting multiple products, including Outlook, SharePoint and Internet Explorer.
- HP Launches Data Privacy Services to Help With Security Compliance
By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 10 Sep 2013Hewlett-Packard takes aim at helping enterprises comply with government regulations like the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
- NSA Bullrun, 9/11 and Why Enterprises Should Walk Before They Run
By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 10 Sep 2013The truth is that the NSA doesn't really need any crazy tools to actually hack SSL, since in the majority of cases today, SSL is not properly deployed anyway.
- Dropbox Cloud Storage Platform Hacked? Not So Fast
By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 05 Sep 2013Is cloud-based storage from Dropbox a secure option for enterprises? And what should enterprises be thinking about in order to securely store data in the cloud anyway?
- HP Fortifies Static Code Analysis
By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 29 Aug 2013Hewlett-Packard's Fortify Source Code Analyzer 4.0 release is designed to deliver faster and more accurate analysis of software code.
- How Did Syrian Electronic Army Take Down The New York Times?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 29 Aug 2013In a brazen attack on August 27th against domain registrar Melbourne IT, host for NYtimes.com, Twitter, Huffington Post and other big names, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) was able to gain access to the DNS records for those sites.
- Complex Password Cracking About to Get Faster
By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 28 Aug 2013The prevailing wisdom is that longer, more complex passwords and passphrases are more difficult to crack and are more secure for users.
- NASDAQ Halt: What Happened?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 26 Aug 2013In our modern world, where we're all hyper-sensitive to the relentless onslaught of cyber-attacks, any time a major site, service or piece of infrastructure stops working properly, the immediate speculation is that hackers are to blame.
- Inside the Open Source Verizon Enterprise Risk and Incident Sharing (VERIS) Framework
By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 22 Aug 2013How does Verizon put together its annual Data Breach Investigations Report?
- Google Chrome 29 Update Fixes 25 Flaws
By Sean Michael Kerner | Thu, 22 Aug 2013How much does it cost to patch 25 flaws in an open-source Web browser?
