The CyberSecurity Act 2012 aims to protect the nation against increasing incidents of cyber attack. The main gist of the legislation is a private-public partnership to secure the cyber systems of essential services. View Senator Joe Liberamn introduce this legsilation and make a strong case for it, in this video blog:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) testifying before a House subcommittee that it monitors social networks is unnerving for most people.

The fact that DHS had instituted a program that monitored the internet for threats and hazards is well known. DHS officials also confirmed the agency’s presence on many major social networking platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, which is anyway an open secret.

What raises consternations is DHS putting together intelligence ...

The biggest threat to network security is malicious insiders rather than any external actors. A recent lawsuit filed in a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by the San Jose based SunPower Crop, manufacturers of solar panels underscores this belief. The company accuses five of its ex-employees of stealing proprietary information and passing it on to SolarCity, SunPower’s competitor who now employ the five accused.

The alleged modus ...

With drive-by downloads increasing by the day, and no solution in sight to eradicate such menace, corporate users and others would do well to take precautions that would minimize the risk of them being victims of such attacks.

The most important precaution is keeping software up to date. Drive-by downloads work by exploiting vulnerabilities in software. Installing patches and upgrading to the latest version of software mean reduced chances of the ...

Cyber criminals innovate on new techniques by the day to stay one up on security. The latest trend is proliferation of drive-by downloads that automatically install malware and Trojans by stealth, with the end user remaining unaware of their machines being compromised.

Cyber criminals launch drive-by downloads by exploiting vulnerabilities in web browsers or plug-ins. Although the modus operandi can take many ways, the most common ways the cyber criminals launch ...

The ever-increasing scope of cyber-crime and cyber criminals adopting new and innovative techniques by the day make mobile computing a far riskier option than it was even months ago.

Downloading apps is the biggest risk that mobile users face. With bring-your-own-device (BYOD) gaining ground, corporate networks face serious challenge from the plethora of apps available in the smart phone that employees use to connect to the corporate network. Yet, it is ...

SOPA and PIPA is in the news recently, thanks to the federal authorities taking down Megaupload and the spate of attacks launched by hackavists groups in retaliation. Patrick Hayes of Spiked, an online magazine offers an interesting insight into the situation and the legislation itself. he believes the legislation would change the web, and the web as we know it today would cease to exist.

Yamatough, the hacker representing “Lords of Dharmaraja” an Anonymous affiliate that stole pcAnywhere has finally made good its threat of making public the source code. The episode however has exposed the mercenary nature that lies obfuscated under the hackavist cause. Making public the source code took place only after the group could not inveigle the $50,000 ransom it demanded from Symantec. Yamatough still holds that it did not intend to ...

After the spate of attacks on federal agencies and music companies protesting against the move to strictly enforce copyright on the web, Anonymous is now on an overdrive, launching coordinated attacks and leaks against the government and law enforcement agencies at an international level.

Anonymous started off last week by making public a conference call, between the FBI and Scotland Yard, it had tapped, regarding a joint effort in a cybercrime ...

Conventional network security wisdom holds that the larger the bandwidth of DDoS attacks, the more the damage caused to the vitims.

A study conducted by Radware, a leading application and security solution provider debunks this theory and proves that big problems usually come in small packages.  A survey conducted as part of the study reveals that 76 percent of the DDoS attacks in recent times had a bandwidth under 1 Gbps ...