The federal regulations telling agencies how to secure their computer networks are overdue for an overhaul: Even the author of the 2002 law now admits that it needs updating to reflect today’s threats from hackers, viruses and cyber spies. Critics of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) long have complained that the way it [...]
Expects to receive almost nothing Facebook has been awarded $711 million in damages against the infamous junk mail merchant, Sanford “Spamford” Wallace, who gained access to numerous accounts on the social website and sent phony messages to their friends.… The power of collaboration within unified communications Read more…
OpenDNS makes oopsie Online tat bazaar ebay.co.uk was blocked for much of yesterday because OpenDNS wrongly labelled auction pages on the site as phishing pages.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work Read more…
A security researcher shunned by the anti-virus community for violating its unwritten rules has attempted to turn the tables, erecting a Web service that virus writers could use to make their creations more stealthy and undetectable for longer periods of time. At issue is a new site called avtracker.info, which aims to keep tabs on [...]
A hacker’s claim that he compromised President Obama’s campaign Web site appears to be a hoax, according to information that surfaced since the matter came to light early Monday. The kerfuffle started when a hacker and blogger with a history of posting evidence of security vulnerabilities in popular and high-traffic Web sites published evidence indicating [...]