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IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue -- not offer complete security -- and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivised to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas. The number of new malicious websites rose by 58 per cent in June to its highest level since April 2007, security experts warned today. New measures implemented in section 6.6 of the PCI standard, do nothing to address the threat of insiders. Global security experts gathered in Malaysia last month to help ramp up the world’s defenses against cyber-terrorism. The Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) products of Avaya, Cisco and Nortel are filled with more than 100 vulnerabilities, according to a report from VoIPshield Laboratories. IronPort's charismatic CEO puts his success down to having tasted failure in the past. He talks to Paul Fisher SC Magazine's UK editor about living with Cisco. Gary McKinnon, accused of hacking into US government computers, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, can protest his extradition to America in Britain's highest court, a three-judge panel ruled today.
Investigators at eBay believe a fraudster was trying to generate panic when he posted what appeared to be the credit card numbers for 1,200 members to an eBay forum that deals with user safety and security.
Recent high-profile security breaches are making it harder to separate the key issues from the hype. Barry Mansfield asks top experts for their advice. Domain name owners are the target of a sophisticated scam disclosed by the US SANS Internet Storm Center late last week. Life would be easier if we didn’t have to patch our operating systems and apps. Patrick Gray explores the real reasons why updating is important. VeriSign's iDefense Labs is offering a total of US$48,000 in awards for remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the new Windows Vista operating system and Internet Explorer 7.0. U.S. hackers account for more malware, spam and phishing attacks than those in any other nation, new research has claimed. The trend of hackers and cybercriminals using botnets to conduct large-scale denial-of-service attacks increased at an “alarming rate” during the second half of last year, new research has revealed. The results are in: The top consumer complaint in New York is...the internet. As RSA Conference celebrates its 15th anniversary, we thought it only appropriate to find out from leading information security players what they think the industry can expect to see in the next 15 years. Most of the national and international TV news is taken up with the “war on terror” or the “war in Iraq.” In our area (metro Detroit), these stories have their own logos and intense theme music. Depending upon the political bent of the news source, these “wars” either are the right or wrong thing to do. We are either winning or we are not. More and more proprietary security tools use some open-source code. What are the advantages for companies? Unpatched Linux systems are lasting longer on the internet before being compromised, according to a study by the Honeynet Project, a nonprofit group of security professionals that researches online attackers' methods and motives.