Fahmida Y. Rashid

CANCUN, Mexico €” Security researchers need to shift their attention away from hunting for vulnerabilities and start thinking about ways to make it difficult to create exploits, according to a security expert from Adobe. There is too much focus on vulnerabilities and defects in software, Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe, […]

Malicious hackers trying to circulate malware-tainted applications on Android Market are going to find Google’s Bouncer at the door, preventing undesirable apps from getting in and kicking out troublemakers. Bouncer has been monitoring the Android Market for several months already, and Google claims it has seen a 40 percent drop in malicious apps between the […]

CANCUN, MEXICO €” Cyber-crooks on Facebook are creating fake profiles on the social networking site to launch their scams, according to data released by Barracuda Networks. The fake profiles are overwhelmingly women. About 97 percent of the fake profiles collected by Barracuda Networks turned out to be of women, Paul Judge, chief research officer at […]

CANCUN, MEXICO €” Companies invest in security to protect their networks and data. But sometimes, they are not thinking about the human side of the security equation, Kaspersky Lab researchers told attendees at the company’s security conference. The €œHumans are the weakest link€ presentation on the second day of the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit […]

VeriSign, the company responsible for the .com, .net and .gov domain spaces, acknowledged in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was hacked several times in 2010. The company had not disclosed the incidents at the time they occurred. While VeriSign admitted to the breaches in its quarterly filing with the […]

Apple patched a slew of security issues in its OS X operating system in a fairly large security update to prevent potential drive-by-attacks and to fix issues in third-party products.The OS X Security Updates cover Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) and Lion (OS X 10.7), according to the support article released by Apple Feb. 1. […]

Oracle quietly released patches for its Oracle Fusion Middleware and Sun Products Suite to address a handful of security flaws.The out-of-band patches addressed denial-of-service vulnerabilities that were present in several Oracle products, the company said in a security alert issued Jan. 31. A remote user would be able to exploit this vulnerability, CVE 2011-5035, and […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is working on a way to separate legitimate user data from illegal content that had been stored on Megaupload servers so that users can reclaim their personal files. Carpathia Hosting, one of the companies Megaupload had contracted with to provide hosting services, created MegaRetrieval.com to help users work with the EFF […]

Romanian police have arrested a man they believe is TinKode, who broke into Department of Defense Websites and other government agencies. Razvan Manole Cermaianu, an IT student, is suspected of being TinKode, the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism said in a statement Jan. 31. He’s charged with breaking into wireless systems to […]

1) Dont Take Any Data With You Take a laptop with a fresh operating system installed or a phone reset to factory defaults when traveling and download the data once at the destination. With the ability to back up mobile devices online and a plethora of cloud data storage options, this is increasingly becoming a […]