Security

Banks may soon require new online authentication steps

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council is believed to be set to issue new guidelines for transactions

Hackers get access to New Jersey school data system

With the administrative password, intruders could have sent bogus emergency notifications to parents

Carberp malware sniffs out antivirus use to maximize attack impact

Hackers identify antivirus on hijacked PCs to evaluate anti-malware scanning services, says researcher

NASA to morph Kennedy Space Center into commercial role

Space Shuttle retirement forces NASA to consider other roles for Kennedy Space Center

Apple hires Geekonomics expert as global security chief

Information warfare specialist David Rice could help boost Apple’s secure development culture

Google jumps into ‘Do Not Track’ debate with Chrome add-on

Expert applauds Mozilla, Google for following Microsoft in adding browser privacy tools

Digital black market offers cheap botnets for hire

Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2010 revealed

No. 1 attack goes after Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web framework

SolarWinds blows into virtualization and application performance management

Picks up Hyper9 for the first and develops the second in house

Business continuity planning still not widely implemented