Security

Court gives preliminary OK to $4M consumer settlement in Heartland case

Payment processor agrees to reimburse consumers for costs associated with 2009 breach

Ipreo sues Goldman Sachs for data theft

Company employees illegally accessed Ipreo database, complaint claims

Feds shred counterfeit Cisco trade

Counterfeit Cisco network hardware sting chalks up 30 convictions, 700 hardware seizures

Should ISP change their subcribers’ contract for IPv6?

Can ISP re-use their IPv4 business model for IPv6?

Data Leak Prevention Finally Gets an Open Source Alternative

DLP is a key technology in stopping data and ID theft. Until now it was one of the few security technologies without an open source alternative. OpenDLP aims to change that.

Hacker develops multi-platform rootkit for ATMs

One year after being blocked, researcher Barnaby Jack will finally give a controversial Black Hat talk

China state news agency Web site hit with malware

Part of the Xinhua news agency's Web site was found distributing malware

Security firm reveals Microsoft’s ‘silent’ patches

Microsoft acknowledges fixing internally-found flaws without disclosing details

The DDoS attack survival guide

IPv6 tunnel basics

Mechanisms aid IPv4 to IPv6 transition for network operators