Fahmida Y. Rashid

Data privacy dominated security headlines this past week as the European Commission set out to change its 17-year-old data privacy law. The changes would not be applicable to just companies that are based or operate in the European Union, but to every company that does business with an EU citizen. The changes, once adopted, would […]

The idea that IT professionals and business leaders are resisting the consumerization of IT and the trend of bringing your own device (BYOD) to work is myth. On the contrary, more and more people are embracing these notions and trying to incorporate them into the workday, according to a recent study. Several recent reports have […]

Verdasys is moving its data leak prevention portfolio to the cloud to help enterprises protect their data stored on its networks and still reduce costs. The company introduced two new offerings-Verdasys Managed Service for Information Protection (MISP) and Verdasys Information Protection as a Service (IPaaS)-that offer data protection as a managed service, Verdasys said Jan. […]

New data privacy regulations being implemented by the European Union will present serious complications for U.S. companies doing business in Europe, according to an IT security and data privacy executive who took part in a panel at the George Washington University School of Law in Washington, D.C. For example, the 24-hour window for data breach […]

An “increasingly toxic threat landscape” and “unprecedented information growth” boosted Symantec’s fiscal year third-quarter performance as enterprises and consumers snapped up security and storage product bundles designed to protect large volumes of stored data, the company said. The company reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $1.7 billion, a 6.9 percent increase over last year’s third-quarter revenue […]

The saga over Symantec’s stolen code took another twist as the company acknowledged that pcAnywhere customers are at risk for man-in-the-middle attacks and new exploits. The breach actually occurred on Symantec servers in 2006, and attackers stole source code to several Norton security products and the pcAnywhere remote access tool, Symantec confirmed last week. At […]

Instead of just launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, cyber-attackers have started hijacking domain names and redirecting traffic from legitimate sites to malicious ones. The hacker group Anonymous recently managed to hijack the Domain Name System record for CBS.com and redirected all traffic to another Web server that displayed an empty directory structure. It appeared as if […]

The European Commission on Jan. 25 unveiled its proposed changes to existing data privacy laws that would force Internet companies to better protect user information or face fines. The European Commission introduced new rules to update the 17-year-old data privacy laws to better protect Internet users on Jan. 25. The laws are intended to improve […]

Government officials initially believed railway signal disruptions in December were tied to a cyber-attack against a Northwest rail company in December, Nextgov reported. But government and railway officials later denied that a U.S. railroad had actually been hit by a cyber-attack. “There was no targeted computer-based attack on a railroad,” said Holly Arthur, a spokeswoman […]

HP’s TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative unveiled a new format for its popular Pwn2Own contest at the upcoming CanSecWest conference with new prizes and scoring system. During Pwn2Own, contestants try to compromise fully-patched and up-to-date versions of Web browsers across various operating systems, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome running on Mac OS X or Windows […]