The world’s largest and oldest broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), became the next victim of cyber attack as their servers were accessed by a…
Month: December 2013
In a recent article published by Security Week, Michael Callahan of Juniper Networks, runs through a number of “alternative” methods for detecting and preventing “brute force attacks”…
RSA Security, LLC. has been paid approximately $10 million by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to “install bugs into the company’s encryption software so that…
The retail company Target announced that customer personal identification number (PIN) information “had not been breached” after 40 million customer credit and debit card records were stolen recently,…
A “Transparency Report” released by Google shows an increase in the amount of requests from the federal government to “remove information from their services“, according to articles…
The San Francisco-based security company CloudPassage recently offered a $5,000 prize to any “hacker” who could successfully gain access to web-based servers – like those used by…
A group called the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, established by the federal government after the National Security Agency’s (NSA) questionable foreign intelligence practices…
LeaseWeb, a Netherlands-based web hosting provider, has been warned by The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) to disable the streaming video website TheShowDepot.com or be charged as an accomplice…
Researchers at the analyst firm Gartner believe that the Unix operating system is “on a path to insignificance” and report that many of their clients have begun…
A recent study conducted by Tripwire, a security and compliance solution provider, found that United States government agencies are quickly proceeding to expand their existing…