By CHAD BRAY U.S. authorities are expected to announce criminal charges Tuesday against six individuals associated with the online-activist collectives Anonymous and Lulz Security, according to a person in law enforcement. Those charged include individuals in the U.S. and overseas, and several people have been taken into custody, according to this person. FoxNews.com reported Tuesday [...]
A recent string of cyber attacks against Israeli credit card companies, banks, and government websites was aided by thousands of Israeli computers operated by remote assailants, a top Israeli software security expert on Tuesday. Hackers shut down both the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and El Al’s respective websites on Monday, one day after a [...]
Tax time is fast approaching, and before you know it you’ll be collecting 1099s, filling out Schedule Cs, and asking your financial consultant for tax advice. That also means it’s time to ensure that you’re ready for the security risks that accompany tax season. Here are five things you can do to help make your [...]
Computerworld – Researchers at Symantec yesterday confirmed that working attack code published Jan. 6 can cripple Web servers running Microsoft’s ASP .Net. The proof-of-concept exploit was published last Friday on GitHub, a site that hosts software projects, and has been used in the past by hackers to distribute their work. Other security experts were not [...]
The Ministry of Defense for Japan has assigned software experts to work on a PC-virus, which will trace, identify, as well as deactivate sources of Internet assaults, published DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE on January 3, 2011. Essentially, with a plan to spread the ongoing project over a 3-yr period, the government of Japan has allotted an [...]
An increasing awareness of IT security issues displayed by SMBs during 2011 could present an opportunity for MSPs in 2012. The “SMB Market Landscape Report 2011,” a recent survey of 1,000 US- and UK-based SMBs released by internet security software provider AVG, indicates that traditional IT vulnerabilities are still causing SMBs the most concern, but [...]
It’s not the infamous Y2K scare of 2000, but as a new calendar year begins, two MSU professors are continuing research to help protect home computer owners. Emilee Rader and Rick Wash, assistant professors in the Department of Telecommunications, Information Studies and Media, received two grants totaling nearly $500,000 last August from the National Science [...]