Latest News

CyberPatriot - Cyber Defense Competition Draws Over 450 Teams From Across The Nation The Air Force Association announced today that CyberPatriot, a cyber defense competition for high schools, has more than 450 teams registered to participate.

Do you remember those ’80s and ’90s movies that portrayed the same hacker over and over, just in a different setting? It was always a kid wizard sitting in his parent’s basement hammering away on the keyboard. Or a student loner who hacked into the university’s administration system to change his grades. That’s the image engrained in our brains when we hear the word “hacker.” In reality, when we talk about hackers, we are talking about a fully organized, well-oiled...

Russian software firm ElcomSoft Co. Ltd., makers of several password and encryption cracking products, today released Wireless Security Auditor, a wireless key “recovery” solution for Wi-Fi networks.Designed to be an all-in-one wireless cracking solution, the company claims that the software can automatically locate wireless networks, intercept data packets, and crack WPA/WPA2 PSK passwords.

State of Software Security Report Evaluates Security of Web Applications

DNS Security - What Every CIO Should Do

How to Stop a Cyber Attack Before it Happens

Sponsored Spam Fighting! CAPTCHAs Emerge as The Latest Tool for Online Advertisers Each day 142 “man years” are spent solving CAPTCHAs, a test many Web sites use to help ensure responses are coming from people and not generated by a computer. That calculation is based on the fact that, on average, a user spends 14 seconds to review and enter a response, multiplied by 280 million, the number of times CAPTCHAS are used per day across the Web.

BAE Systems announced that it has received a $40 Million order to provide cybersecurity services to the FBI, the first order awarded under the Information Assurance Program Support contract vehicle, a five-year effort valued at $134 million.

Get Rich on the Internet - Learn Online Fraud

Application Security Inc., announced product upgrades to its AppDetectivePro and DbProtect solutions this week at Oracle Open World in San Francisco.

HP and Oracle today reaffirmed their long-term strategic partnership and the resolution of litigation regarding Mark V. Hurd’s employment at Oracle. While the terms of the settlement are confidential, Mr. Hurd will adhere to his obligations to protect HP’s confidential information while fulfilling his responsibilities at Oracle. CNBC reported that no money changed hands as part of the settlement but that Hurd may have forfeited some of the stock he was entitled to as part of his departure from HP.

Cloud Management Solution designed to help customers build and securely manage cloud environments across all leading hypervisors, operating systems and hardware platforms

BitLocker to Go, drive encryption built into Windows 7 Ultimate that helps protect sensitive data on USB storage devices, may not as safe as you think.

Fresh off the news that it would acquire OpenPages, IBM

At the recent Forrester Security Forum in Boston, IBM Security executives discussed how companies can more effectively manage cost, complexity and compliance in a world where threats are constantly changing and information is always compounding. Subjects discussed include data controls, malware defense, patch management, misperception of risk, secure by design, and more.