The RSA Conference brings security specialists together in San Francisco to talk about the latest developments in protecting consumers and businesses online.
The RSA Conference 2009 brings security professionals together in San Francisco to talk about the latest developments in protecting consumers and businesses online.
With real money on the line in online games and virtual worlds, publishers need to get a handle on how many different exploits are being implemented every day. (Posted in Gaming and Culture by Daniel Terdiman) April 23, 2009 4:39 PM PDT
Hundreds of PCs and medical devices at hospitals in the U.S. were found to be infected with the Conficker worm recently, a security expert says.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 23, 2009 4:23 PM PDT
Cutting off the money flow to cybercriminals could be the best way to stop them, a top botnet researcher says.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 22, 2009 5:09 PM PDT
Melissa Hathaway, acting cyberspace director at the White House, hints that a new "organizational structure" will divest Homeland Security of some of its responsibilities.
• Video: Obama administration previews cybersecurity policy (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh) April 22, 2009 4:47 PM PDT
Head of an FBI undercover sting operation explains how law enforcement cracked an ID theft ring and detailed the increasing influence of Russian organized crime.
(Posted in Coop's Corner by Charles Cooper) April 22, 2009 3:19 PM PDT
Analyst Jon Oltsik believes such teamwork needs to be taken to another level. Here are a few suggestions where this would help.
(Posted in Security by Jon Oltsik) April 22, 2009 1:21 PM PDT
Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander tells audience at RSA conference the agency isn't interested in wresting cybersecurity responsibilities from Homeland Security.
• Video: NSA's approach to network security
(Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh) April 21, 2009 5:10 PM PDT
Huge botnet hosted in the Ukraine is being used to send spam, record keystrokes, and copy files of infected computers running Windows XP, researchers say.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 21, 2009 9:00 PM PDT
Watch this: Internet both safer and more dangerous
Panelists at the RSA security conference don't know why some products arrive on store shelves in the U.S. infected with viruses.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 21, 2009 5:45 PM PDT
Acrobat Reader is garnering the lion's share of certain types of attacks this year so a security researcher says use another PDF reader.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 21, 2009 2:42 PM PDT
Corporate VP Scott Charney spoke at RSA and then stopped by CNET's San Francisco headquarters on Tuesday to talk about the ever-changing security landscape.
• Video: Internet both safer and more dangerous (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) April 21, 2009 4:10 PM PDT
World's top cryptographers disagree on the risks inherent in cloud computing and downplay the possibility of a digital Pearl Harbor.
• Video: Will there be a digital Pearl Harbor? (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 21, 2009 12:12 PM PDT
Microsoft takes end-to-end trust to school in proof-of-concept trial featuring information cards on small notebook PCs handed out to students, Microsoft executive says in RSA keynote.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 21, 2009 10:42 AM PDT
Big Blue unveils products and services and plans security architecture for protecting hosted data and virtual networks.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 21, 2009 9:27 AM PDT
Company rounds out hosted security offerings with Security Cloud Services, updated intrusion prevention and botnet-filtering software, and WebEx services for secure online meetings.
• ZDNet video: Cisco CEO on protecting companies against hackers (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 21, 2009 5:00 AM PDT
Company has bought Web security appliance maker Mi5 and plans to announce two new enterprise suites at the RSA Conference.
• Video: Symantec CEO on the future of security (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 20, 2009 9:00 PM PDT
LinkScanner stands alone once more
Swallowed up in early 2008, AVG has burped out a newly independent version of the popular LinkScanner. The browser plug-in checks search results for safety on the fly.
(Posted in The Download Blog by Seth Rosenblatt) April 20, 2009 4:26 PM PDT
As RSA 2009 kicks off, Microsoft begins education campaign about new security features of Windows 7.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 20, 2009 3:45 PM PDT
AVG breaks out its LinkScanner software from its free suite to offer a free standalone product for real-time Web page scanning.
(Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 20, 2009 5:00 AM PDT
Hurdles still exist, but on the eve of a big security conference, industry executives say the prospect of vulnerability-free software may not be that far away.
• The hype factor at the RSA conference (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 20, 2009 4:00 AM PDT
Trust Digital explains how an attacker could take over a phone or steal data off it by sending SMS messages.
• Forget your password? Use your phone (Posted in Security by Elinor Mills) April 19, 2009 3:42 PM PDT
