April 25, 2011 - The Iranian government on Monday said it was targeted by a new computer virus dubbed “Stars.” The report came from the director of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization through the country’s Mehr News Agency. Global media subsequently picked up the (continue reading...) Read more
April 18, 2011 - Cybercrooks always latch on to current events to lure unsuspecting Internet users into their traps. It doesn’t matter what type of event it is, a natural disaster, major sporting championship or, in today’s case, Easter, the upcoming Christian holiday. This morning (continue reading...) Read more
December 14, 2010 - Has Patch Tuesday become an all too familiar nightmarish ritual that shows signs of only escalating numbers of vulnerabilities to be patched? Does each month represent a new record in the time taken by your IT staff to (continue reading...) Read more
July 27, 2010 - As a child, I was always taught that “sharing was caring”. So I shared my toys with my brothers, shared my candy with sister – and we all got along beautifully, and of course, made our parents happy. Now that (continue reading...) Read more
July 27, 2010 - Being a little paranoid when it comes to computer security is a good thing. When you travel to a security event like Black Hat and, in particular, DEFCON, that level of paranoia should be turned up a few notches. I’ll unfortunately (continue reading...) Read more
July 22, 2010 - One of the critical aspects of desktop virtualization is that it is disruptive to the end-user. Even though the technology is primed for operational returns not enough has been done to prepare the end-user to the new way of interacting (continue reading...) Read more
July 13, 2010 - The concept of application whitelisting (AWL) is very fundamental – You have a finite list of trusted applications and only those are allowed to run. Going down memory lane… This was productized by a few vendors post-Y2K, and was an (continue reading...) Read more
June 18, 2010 - On June 11, Cisco announced end-of-life and end-of-sale of the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) ending months of speculation. Cisco will continue to support CSA for three years but without product enhancements. CSA is a host intrusion prevention product (continue reading...) Read more
June 9, 2010 - Microsoft delivered 10 security updates yesterday to patch a record-tying 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Office and SharePoint. Microsoft labeled three as “critical” – because they allowed attackers to remotely install malware on victim machines – two address (continue reading...) Read more
May 12, 2010 - It’s been a hush-hush project till now! McAfee and Citrix working together redefining virtual desktop security. Brian Barney, McAfee executive vice president product operations, is presenting here with Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix about the new partnership at (continue reading...) Read more
February 9, 2010 - The year 2010 has already demonstrated more potent exploit of vulnerabilities in standard desktop applications and browsers. Through appropriate deployment of protections, IT teams can build up an integrated base of countermeasures to eliminate fear of the unknown, while protecting (continue reading...) Read more
February 8, 2010 - Which software can you trust? There’s a lot of good in Web 2.0 technologies that allow rapid development of user-contributed content and applets, but they also bring risk: poorly secured or deliberately malicious software in the form of (continue reading...) Read more
November 16, 2009 - Ever since Microsoft released its Windows 7 operating system there has been a big buzz on the media about its security capabilities. While some security vendors have gone on the offensive, showing the short-comings of the (continue reading...) Read more