The announcement this week that a team of hackers have began to target the members of another hacking group has put an interesting spin on recently publicized cyber attacks against several organizations. A group calling themselves the “A-Team” have targeted the members of LulzSec—a group claiming responsibility for many of the latest successful security beaches–in [...]
The recent announcement of a 13-year old security flaw found in an Open Source security library has renewed the debate between open source and closed source software. The library, crypt_blowfish, allows for fast two-way password encryption. The flaw introduces the potential for passwords to be easily compromised and affects PHP and a number of Linux distributions that [...]
As enterprise information security spending is scrutinized in unprecedented fashion in 2009 Information Technology management will seek to get more for their security dollar. While budgets tighten and risks grow due to the global economic downturn IT departments will be looking for point solutions, not suites of security tools. CIOs and IT managers will depend [...]