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The economic downturn could give the software as a service (SaaS) model an edge over traditional security software provision, Webroot believes. Community-organised hacker conference, Ruxcon, is aiming to attract a ‘more diverse field’ of attendees to its annual event in November. Lawyers for Gary McKinnon, the hacker who broke into Nasa computers, have appealed to the Home Secretary in a bid to stop him being jailed in the US. The fourth annual Gartner IT Security Summit kicks off this month and SC met with Andrew Walls, Gartner's local security analyst, for a sneak peak at the event's hot topics. The FBI has arrested two men and charged them with stealing customer information from the servers of US mortgage lender Countrywide Financial. A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack brought down a government website in Georgia this weekend.
Akamai highlights global web threat A security researcher involved in defending against last year's Web attacks on Estonia has shared his account of the crisis, and is offering advice on how to prevent similar assaults in the future.. A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open-source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects. Happy birthday, spam. Saturday marked 30 years to the day when the first spam email was delivered. Nobel Laureate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will be the closing keynote speaker at this year’s RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco, event organisers have just announced.
TJX on Wednesday reported a 47 percent spike in quarterly profits, aided by a reduction in the reserve that was created to pay for costs associated with last year's reported data breach. You have probably heard by now that the root cause of most security vulnerabilities is in the software we run, and that these vulnerabilities are introduced into the software during the development process. That much has been well understood for several years. What hasn't been well understood is the solution to the problem. After last year's big breaches, new laws on handling confidential data won't be far off, so get ready now. Authorities have arrested a 58-year-old man in Greece they said hacked into computer systems of France's Dassault Group for more than five years, stole sensitive weapons technology data, and sold it to a variety of countries. Betfair's global head of security seems to have it all: bosses who listen, resources most of us can only dream of, and youth. Study shows outside hackers responsible for one per cent of attacks. Cloud computing has all the hallmarks of becoming a prevalent and valuable innovation that IT professionals should use to their advantage. Integrated technologies the way forward, says McAfee. The scale of electronic crime is incalculable because of inadequacies in the reporting system, according to the European Union's IT security unit.