Richard Adhikari

Janet Napolitano is hitting the ground running in her new role as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — a pace that aims to help DHS respond to criticism it faced in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and a rash of security vulnerabilities. In her first week on the job, the new DHS […]

The Web’s already got its share of threats, but in many cases, savvy users can steer clear of dangers. But that may be changing as cyber criminals’ attacks continue growing in sophistication — with even legitimate sites becoming less trustworthy. Social networking sites and other prominent online destinations, like search engines, will be some of […]

America is joining a global recognition of data privacy today. The House of Representatives has approved a bill declaring today National Data Privacy Day. Several states were also planning to recognize January 28 as data privacy day. Meanwhile, there will be shred-ins, educators and privacy professionals will lead discussions with pre-teens, teens and young adults […]

For some security experts, the recent data breach at job site Monster.com comes as no surprise, and they say enterprises need to reconsider their approach to security. “When most organizations talk about security, they’re talking about network security, which is five years out of date,” Brian Contos, chief security strategist at database and Web application […]

In their never-ending war with antivirus vendors and other malware fighters, cybercriminals have come up with a new twist to evade detection – putting up malicious sites for one day or less on average. Antivirus vendor AVG Research found that in the last quarter of 2008, about 60 percent of new sites linked to malware […]

VMware ended 2008 on a strong note but gave ominous guidance for 2009, echoing what many other firms have said in reporting their fourth quarter 2008 numbers. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter ended December 31, 2008 was $142 million, or 36 cents per diluted share, up about 38 percent year-over-year (YoY) over the 2007 […]

While botnets suffered a major setback late last year, the networks of hacker-controlled PCs are beginning to make their return, researchers said. The Net’s major botnets — Storm and Srizbi — seem to have been dealt a crippling blow when their chief Web host, McColo, lost its access to the Internet. But a number of […]

Spam levels, which fell sharply when botnet host McColo was taken down in November, will bounce back to pre-McColo levels by the end of January, according to Google’s Adam Swidler. Swidler, who handles Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) business-to-business e-mail security offerings, told InternetNews.com that more attacks will be launched to grow botnets and that there will […]

A plan by the U.S. intelligence community to link the thousands of databases run by all 16 U.S. spy agencies may be aiming too high, experts tell InternetNews.com. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, those links are being planned so the intelligence agencies can share information and avoid the situation that led […]

Powered by the twin enterprise needs to cut costs during this recession and to improve security in the light of repeated data breaches, Intel and Citrix have teamed up to create a hypervisor that will let IT centrally manage and administer end user devices. Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) will optimize its Xen hypervisor for Intel (NASDAQ: […]

The next time you run a search on Google, pay attention to which results you click on from the paid results area. Security experts say spammers are gaming Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Adwords program again in order to get malicious sites placed at the top of paid search results. Some search results, listed to the right […]

In what experts say could become the largest worm attack in recent memory, millions of computers worldwide are reported to be infected by a worm known variously as Downadup, Conficker and Confick — even though there’s a patch available that could help fix the problem. Downadup has been spreading so rapidly that security experts say […]