Fahmida Y. Rashid

Worried about aftershocks, Microsoft undertook a massive data migration project following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan in March. While applications and services in the data center in Japan continued to run as normal, Microsoft decided to move all the data and applications to a different data center in North America “just […]

Aiming to protect users across multiple machines and mobile devices, Webroot has revamped its entire security suite. All PCs and mobile devices including tablets and smartphones can be protected using a single Web interface and installing lightweight agents on each device, Webroot said Oct. 4. The appearance of advanced malware and online threats means users […]

Microsoft plans to patch 23 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Silverlight and server software as part of the October Patch Tuesday release. Microsoft will release eight security bulletins, of which two are rated “critical,” according to the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued Oct. 6. The remaining important bulletins address flaws in Forefront Unified Access Gateway, […]

A panel of speakers honed in on the changes increased mobility is bring into the enterprise at the Interop conference in New York. The three keynote speakers, Carole Post, commissioner of NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Robert Wahbe, corporate vice president of the server and tools marketing group at Microsoft, and Sujai Hajela, […]

Scammers have jumped on the news of Apple founder Steve Jobs’ death to push forward more survey scams on Facebook. Security researchers warned more are probably on the way. In the latest scam, Facebook users are told that a company-not Apple-is giving away 50 iPads in memory of Steve Jobs, Sophos researchers posted Oct. 6 […]

ExploitHub, which operates a penetration-testing site and is run by NSS Labs, announced a bug-bounty program for researchers to develop exploits for 12 high-value vulnerabilities in Microsoft and Adobe products. The penetration-testing site identified a “dirty dozen” of client-side vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash Player and offered a total of $4,400 for […]

Mobile threats have exploded this year, and researchers believe the number of mobile device exploits will double by the end of the year, according to the latest IBM report. The number of known mobile operating system vulnerabilities will increase only incrementally from 2010 to 2011, but the number of exploits based on those flaws is […]

IBM announced it will acquire Q1 Labs, a data analytics software company, to expand its security and events management capabilities. With advanced analytics from Q1 Labs, IBM can provide customers with correlation capabilities to automatically detect and flag suspicious or abnormal events, IBM said Oct. 4. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and is […]

Not all unwanted email flooding inboxes can be classified as spam, and Microsoft appears to be one of the few companies paying attention to cleaning up the other types of emails that get through spam filters. Malicious email, or messages specifically sent to distribute malware, is usually not defined as spam, according to Avi Turiel, […]

McAfee announced its plans to acquire privately owned Nitro Security to create a new security-information and event-management division focusing on security analytics and log management. McAfee expects to combine the Nitro Security technology with its own security-management portfolio to provide organizations greater visibility into their endpoints, network infrastructure and threats targeting the environment, McAfee said […]