The FBI is cock-a-hoop today, having just announced the bust of six Estonians for malware-related cybercrimes. The case goes back to 2007, with the investigation itself apparently having taken two years. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Palo Alto WildFire firewall upgrade closely inspects network traffic
Palo Alto Networks is upgrading its firewall products with a capability to precisely identify outbound traffic generated by malware, which the company calls WilfFire and says will help if the malware is undetected at first and starts running on a computer. WildFire will be distributed as a free upgrade for…
Tenable Network Security Showcase – Chicago 2011
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Child Rescue Network website hacked
A hacker may be targeting local websites. On Thursday morning, someone took over a local nonprofit organization’s website, and WFTV reporter Tim Barber found out that the hacker may be doing it to get hired. The Child Rescue Network’s website was created to share information about child abuse and missing…
NMAP NSE tutorial: Network asset and vulnerability identification
In this screencast, expert Mike McLaughlin offers an NMAP NSE tutorial for enterprise network asset and vulnerability identification. <img alt="NMAP NSE tutorial: Network asset and vulnerability identification, Blog, Vulnerability, network, Tutorial, Identification, NMAP, asset"height="0" width="0" border="0" style="display:none" src="http://segment-pixel.invitemedia.com/pixel?code=TechBiz &partnerID=167&key=segment”/> View full post on SearchSecurity: Network Security Tactics View full post…
Tenable Network Security Named Fastest-Growing Enterprise Network Security Provider in North America on Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500™
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Naming your Wi-Fi network after an FBI surveillance van
According to a media report out of San Antonio, the man recently accused of planning to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington, DC, was not the sharpest tool in the box. However, if neighbour accounts are to be taken at face value, the same could be said of the FBI…
Social network users notice growing security risks
One in five social media users has been negatively affected by information revealed on these networks, and more than one in ten have even had accounts hijacked, a survey by Barracuda Networks has found. The survey of “hundreds” of users of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and MySapce from 20 countries…
HTCS1: There are more BlackBerry outages and Sony PlayStation Network may have been hit again. Listen for more at http://t.co/Dy86Kns5
HTCS1: There are more BlackBerry outages and Sony PlayStation Network may have been hit again. Listen for more at http://t.co/Dy86Kns5 View full post on Twitter / HTCS1
Stonesoft researchers evade enterprise IPS network protection
Finnish security firm Stonesoft claims to have developed 163 new attack methods that can evade network intrusion detection and prevention systems (IPS) over multiple communication protocols including IPv4, IPv6, TCP and HTTP. The company calls these methods advanced evasion techniques (AETs), a term it coined last year when it released…