Fahmida Y. Rashid

Cyber-attackers interfered with two U.S. government satellites several times over a two-year period, according to an upcoming report from a congressional commission. The intrusions on the satellite occurred four times in 2007 and 2008, according to a draft of a report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission obtained Oct. 27 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek. […]

Facebook is testing out two new security features to help users protect their accounts from being compromised by malicious third-party apps or hackers. In an Oct. 26 blog post, the social networking giant unveiled the “trusted friends” feature to help users regain control of their account and application passwords to prevent malicious third-party apps from […]

Malware authors have ported a Trojan originally written for Linux systems to hijack Mac OS X systems, security researchers found. Once compromised, the Macs could be used to launch denial-of-service attacks. The Tsunami Trojan works by latching onto a host. Tsunami appears to be derived from Kaiten, an old backdoor Trojan, dating back at least […]

Open-source giant Red Hat has joined Facebook’s Open Compute Project to collaborate on the development of next-generation data centers. Red Hat’s first step as a member of the Open Compute Project was to certify its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system to run on two servers based on the project’s specifications, the open-source software giant […]

Managed hosting service provider Internap unveiled its latest cloud offering, a publicly available cloud-computing service based on the open-source OpenStack platform. The new Open Public Cloud service offers customers high-performance, on-demand provisioning and scaling of enterprise computing capacity, Internap said Oct. 27. Open Public Cloud is the first publicly available OpenStack-based cloud environment. Open Public […]

Spammers have found a way to circumvent security measures at URL-shortening Websites that detect and remove malicious links. They are creating their own services on the .info domain, Symantec researchers found. Symantec has identified more than 80 sites set up by spammers to shorten Website addresses, according to its latest “Intelligence Report” released Oct. 25. […]

The Department of Energy has been hit by multiple cyber-attacks in the past year, costing the federal government over $2 million to recover, according to a recent audit report. An annual review of the Department of Energy’s unclassified networks revealed a number of security issues, including weak access controls, improper patching strategy and poor employee […]

Fear of cyber-threats and ongoing demand for digital information boosted Symantec’s second-quarter performance as enterprises and consumers continued to buy its security and backup products, the company said. The company reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $1.68 billion, a 14 percent increase from last year’s revenue of $1.48 billion. Symantec’s net income was $182 million, or […]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan’s largest defense contractor, said it is possible that attackers who had breached its networks and infected several machines with malware had also stolen some sensitive information. While it fell short of an outright admission, the company’s statement was a slight reversal from previous claims that no data had been compromised. Some […]

Virginia Rometty, IBM’s senior vice president and global sales leader, is slated to become the company’s next CEO and president, succeeding longtime leader Samuel Palmisano, who is retiring at the end of the year. As the new CEO, Rometty not only takes over one of the world’s largest and most important tech companies, but she […]