RSA
Security roundup: The triumph of hactivists, the sorrow of Symantec
01/27/12
It was another busy week for hactivists attacking the online targets of their ire. This time, hackers under the banner AntiSec appeared to have hacked the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. government's online security website, in protest against the much-railed-against legislation Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) as well as other bills regarding intellectual protection. Similarly, the group Anonymous is believed to be behind the distributed denial-of-service attack on Thursday that brought down the European Parliament's website in what is thought to be retaliation for European support for the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site the week before. Anonymous also opposes a treaty being ratified in Europe now called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That deals with infringement of intellectual property rights.
Hacking stunt: Stealing smartphone crypto keys using plain old radio
01/26/12
Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world's foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month.
6 security companies to watch
01/26/12
This group of security companies includes several that want to capitalize on technology ideas that were originally devised to serve communities of special interest but could now take on a wider cybersecurity role. Fixmo, for example, has its roots in the National Security Agency where its mobile security makes it possible to run critical applications in sandboxes that are insulated from the rest of the machine, making them less likely to fall victim to malware that might have infected the device.
RSA says 2012 will focus on mobile, cloud security
01/19/12
Beyond addressing details about its big breach of 2011, RSA Security executives this week outlined its 2012 product strategy that is centered on three areas, mobility, anti-threat and cloud security.
RSA, unapologetic, looks to move beyond The Breach
01/19/12
Last April's RSA security breach was engineered by a nation-state whose ultimate goal was not to steal secrets about SecurID tokens but rather to use those secrets to compromise U.S. military contractors that protected their networks with the devices, RSA officials say.
RSA chief: Last year's breach has silver lining
01/15/12
Last year's industry-shaking RSA Security breach has resulted in customers' CEOs and CIOs engaging much more closely with the vendor to improve their organizations' security, according to the head of RSA.
Q&A: RSA's Art Coviello reflects on last year's big data breach
01/15/12
RSA Security Chairman Art Coviello says customers still want to hear details about how the company so quickly detected the data breach that last year compromised its SecurID tokens.
Your identity up for grabs
01/13/12
Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars.
Top security incidents of 2011
12/21/11
Everyone will agree that 2011 was a busy year in the field of data security, so as the year draws to a close it seems appropriate to begin the process of distilling our experiences into "lessons learned" that we can take into 2012.
RSA security lapse led to March hack, says researcher
12/05/11
The attack that hacked RSA Security's network earlier this year succeeded because the company failed to take a basic security precaution, a researcher said today.
RSA and McAfee add cloud security offerings
11/07/11
Cloud security options are set to widen today as RSA teams with Microsoft and Citrix to support use of RSA SecurID authentication, and separately, McAfee unveils enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform.
NBC Universal: Retired or recycled 47 tons of hardware
10/24/11
NBC Universal had no room to expand its West Coast data center, located on the Universal City lot in Los Angeles. So Dan Johnson, senior vice president of platform technology, and his team recycled it. The data center refurbishing project, which CIO Christopher Furst refers to as "converting a brownfield," virtualized 60% of the physical servers and shut down 2,000 physical machines.
Security roundup for Oct. 14: BlackBerry blows up; Moxie's moxie on SSL certificates; Vint Cerf on Google's privacy policies
10/14/11
Confidentiality, integrity and availability are oft-mentioned goals of security, and that being the case, this week's lack of service globally for the BlackBerry constitutes a profound security collapse.
SpyEye malware continues to plague computers
10/14/11
The SpyEye banking malware continues to plague computers across the world and is proving to be a difficult foe to detect and remove from infected Windows PCs, according to two researchers from EMC's RSA security division.
Former HBGary Federal CEO Barr regroups after Anonymous
10/13/11
One might think that former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr would stay far away from anything associated with the hacking group Anonymous, which waged an embarrassing hacking campaign earlier this year that resulted in his resignation.
Raytheon's cyberchief describes 'Come to Jesus' moment
10/12/11
After Raytheon began selling missiles to Taiwan in 2006, the defense company's computer network came under a torrent of cyberattacks.
Fearing damage, Microsoft moved data after Japan earthquake
10/11/11
Microsoft undertook a sizable data migration project following Japan's earthquake in March, fearing that one of its data centers could become dysfunctional because of aftershocks.
RSA chief says two groups for SecurID breach
10/11/11
Six weeks after EMC's RSA security division saw its SecurID system hit by hackers, RSA president Tom Heiser met with the CIO of a large global medical device company.
US lawmakers point to China as cause of cyberattacks
10/04/11
U.S. government officials need to put more pressure on their Chinese counterparts to stop a "pervasive" cyber-espionage campaign targeting U.S. companies, one U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday.
Security roundup: Stealing from the military; persistent threats; mammoth security problems; bot armies
09/16/11
Sometimes the difference between selfless valor and selfish cowardice is stark. On the same week that 21-year-old Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer is awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in saving his compatriots in Afghanistan, we hear that Rene Quimby, 42, is sentenced to prison for stealing 16,000 identities of U.S. military service members and using that information to steal from 650 victims.
Apple TV and Netflix don't play well together
09/14/11
Gibbs complains about Apple TV buffering, loves the V-Moda Vibrato Headphones, and is hugely disappointed by the Griffin Beacon
Security pros come clean at Summit on Advanced Persistent Threats
09/13/11
Put about 100 chief information security officers, CIOs and CEOs into a room and what they are willing share about cybersecurity just might surprise you. More information about just what they shared will be revealed soon in a report stemming from a closed-door Summit on Advanced Persistent Threats held in Washington, D.C., in July, where business and government security professionals acknowledged to each other that their organizations had either been hacked through stealthy infiltration to steal valuable sensitive information and intellectual property, or that they wouldn't know it if it had been.
Stupid, arrogant and greedy
09/13/11
Kenneth P. Weiss founded Security Dynamics in 1984, served as CEO until 1986 and remained chairman of the board and CTO until 1996. Under his watch the company developed the SecurID token. Once the SecurID's potential was recognized by both customers and investors, Weiss set out to expand his company, and he initiated the purchase in 1993 of RSA, a small, fledgling encryption company that was gaining some notoriety in the field of Internet commerce security.
Cleversafe enhances ultra-secure cloud storage platform
09/12/11
Cleversafe, a cloud storage vendor that distributes data through the cloud, announced enhancements to its Cleversafe platform that make it more reliable and scalable for companies that are managing large collections of unstructured data for business analytics.
RSA spearphish attack may have hit US defense organizations
09/08/11
The hackers who broke into EMC's RSA Security division last March used the same attack code to try to break into several other companies, including two U.S. national security organizations, according to data provided by the VirusTotal website.
RSA profile
