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- Sourcefire Tracking Malware to the Source
By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 21 May 2013Sourcefire is expanding its malware tracking and visibility capabilities today with an update to the company's Advanced Malware Protection solutions portfolio.
- Microsoft's May Patch Tues Patches IE Flaws Old and New
By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 15 May 2013Some vulnerabilities get patched faster than others.
- Mozilla Firefox 21 Tackles 8 Security Advisories
By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 15 May 2013New open source browser debuts, with a default feature that sends information to Mozilla.
- PayPal Wants to See an End To Passwords
By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 14 May 2013Are the days of passwords numbered? PayPal's CISO hopes so.
- 0-Day for IE as May Patch Tues Nears
By Sean Michael Kerner | Tue, 07 May 2013Microsoft's security teams are scrambling in the light of a new zero day attack against its Internet Explorer Web browser that has already hit the U.S. Department of Labor.
- Whitehat Security Finds at Least One Vulnerability in 86 Percent of All Sites
By Sean Michael Kerner | Fri, 03 May 2013Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO of Whitehat Security, has seen a lot of different types of security attacks in his time.
- DDoS Attacks Growing in 2013?
By Sean Michael Kerner | Mon, 29 Apr 2013While 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 2013The 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 2013Security 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 2013Passwords hold a prominent place in the modern security landscape.
- Oracle Patches Java for Pwn2Own Flaws
By Sean Michael Kerner | Wed, 17 Apr 2013Oracle 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 2013Since 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 2013In 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 2013Microsoft 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 2013Browser 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 2013A 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 2013On 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 2013At 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 2013Nearly 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 2013The 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.
