Fahmida Y. Rashid

A piece of banking malware is evolving more sophisticated capabilities to stay hidden on victims’ PCs, according to several security researchers. The information-stealing malware Carberp, discovered last October, can steal a range of data, disguise itself as a legitimate Windows file and remove any antivirus software installed on the host, according to Seculert. As the […]

NASA has moved its citizen-support center to the RightNow Secure Government Cloud, RightNow Technologies said Jan. 27. The support site will be using the RightNow CX customer experience platform to improve Website efficiency, the company said. The NASA Shared Services Center is a public/private partnership with Computer Sciences Corporate Service Providers that provides financial management, […]

Virtela expanded its cloud services portfolio with a new WAN acceleration service for customers utilizing public clouds for their data centers, the company said Jan. 26. Similar to the WAN Acceleration service Virtela launched in the summer, Cloud Accelerator speeds up application performance between customer offices and cloud systems. The new service speeds up traffic […]

Verizon Communications is acquiring Terremark Worldwide for $1.4 billion to enhance its cloud-computing capabilities, the companies said Jan. 27. The acquisition of the Miami-based cloud services and data-center-hosting provider will expand Verizon’s ability to provide IT services to corporate customers. Terremark currently has 13 data centers scattered throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America, […]

An increasing number of sophisticated cyber-criminals are using social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to manage targeted attacks, according to report from security firm Mandiant. In Mandiant’s latest “M-Trends” report, released Jan. 27, researchers observed more examples of “Advanced Persistent Threats” relying on social networks and Web-based services, such as Facebook, Google Chat and […]

Swedish ISP Bahnhof will pass all customers through an anonymizing service by default in response to a law that would require telecommunication providers to retain customer data, the company’s CEO said on Swedish radio. Sweden is in the process of passing a law that implements the European Union’s Data Retention Directive, which requires fixed and […]

CA Technologies acquired Australian telecomm consultancy Torokina Networks to strengthen IT services it provides to telecommunications companies, CA Technologies said on Jan. 25. The deal actually closed on Dec. 22 but the companies decided to delay the announcement until key customers had been briefed and the sales teams trained, Steve Guthrie, director of product strategy […]

An attacker attempted to compromise the servers for the Fedora Project, the community version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but didn’t damage any servers or code, according to an e-mail sent to the Fedora mailing list on Jan. 25. In the message, titled “A security incident on Fedora infrastructure,” Fedora Project leader Jared Smith […]

Investing in private clouds is a top priority for IT organizations in 2011, according to two recent online polls, Unisys said on Jan. 26. The two polls were conducted on the Unisys Website. The first poll, in December 2010, asked visitors about their cloud computing implementation plans. The second poll, asking visitors to name their […]

The updated Dell KACE K1000 management appliance allows organizations to standardize and enforce government-level security policies across all desktops and laptops, the company said on Jan. 26. Dell’s latest version of the management appliance supports the latest Federal Desktop Core Configurations, a list of security settings required for Windows XP and Vista systems that connect […]