By Steve Ragan, CSO | August 18th, 2014 Community Hospital Systems (CHS), which operates just over 200 hospitals in 29 states, reported a data breach impacting about 4.5 million people on Monday. The incident, blamed…
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service | August 18th, 2014 Community Health Systems says the breach occurred in April and June. A major U.S. hospital operator says hackers based in China broke into its computer…
We’re pleased to introduce a new CloudFlare App: Tinfoil Security. Tinfoil Security is a service designed to find possible web application vulnerabilities. Security is central to CloudFlare’s service. Our security features operate at the network…
We’re pleased to introduce a new CloudFlare App: Tinfoil Security. Tinfoil Security is a service designed to find possible web application vulnerabilities. Security is central to CloudFlare’s service. Our security features operate at the network…
A suburban house has been transformed to help specialists find security flaws in smart devices and stop hackers taking control. Read more here:: BBC News – Technology
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld | August 17th, 2014 One of last week’s security updates has bricked an unknown number of PCs running Windows 7. Microsoft on Friday quietly recommended that customers uninstall one of last…
How do you protect against failures in a data center? Selecting a stable location and using quality equipment is a good start. But no matter how much you spend and how lofty the promises of…
How do you protect against failures in a data center? Selecting a stable location and using quality equipment is a good start. But no matter how much you spend and how lofty the promises of…
By Zach Miners, IDG News Service | August 15th, 2014 The public will now have five additional days to weigh in. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has extended a deadline for comments on its proposed…
By Patrick Thibodeau, Computerworld | August 15th, 2014 An Internet of Things startup may help shape a consumer goliath’s product strategy. In acquiring SmartThings, Samsung is gaining a philosophy, platform and development community for the…
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service | August 15th, 2014 Heise Online reveals top-secret details about the GCHQ’s ‘Hacienda’ program. British intelligence agency GCHQ used port scanning as part of the “Hacienda” program to find…
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld | August 15th, 2014 Tidbits from a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” chat also include browser name-change, faster updates and the demise of IE8. In a wide-ranging “Ask Me Anything” chat on…
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service | August 15th, 2014 Outages and service disruptions hit several Azure products in various regions of the world in the past seven days. Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform…
By Ellen Messmer, Network World | August 15th, 2014 The Certificate Authority Security Council weighs in on new SSL server certificate rules. As a safety precaution to prevent SSL server certificates being exploited for network…
By Agam Shah, IDG News Service | August 15th, 2014 Heartbleed highlights memory and cache architecture weaknesses, but a DHS-funded project proposes changes. Heartbleed may have been a software bug, but it highlighted glaring weaknesses…
By Antone Gonsalves, CSO | August 15th, 2014 Companies should take note of a recent poll that found contractors and IT administrators were the favorite targets of hackers. Four in 10 of a 127 self-proclaimed…
By Mikael Ricknäs, IDG News Service | August 15th, 2014 The first commercial networks are expected next year. Telecom equipment vendor Adtran has developed a technology that will make it easier for operators to roll…
By Zach Miners, TechWorld | August 14th, 2014 More types of malicious software will be identified by Google’s safe browsing service. Google is expanding its safe browsing technology to notify Web users of downloads that…
By Jared Newman, PC World | August 14th, 2014 What motivates hackers to wreak havoc on security systems and steal sensitive data? According to a new survey, most hackers do it for kicks, and few…
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service | August 14th, 2014 The Center for Digital Democracy calls on the FTC to investigate 30 companies. Thirty U.S. data brokers and data management firms, including Adobe Systems, AOL…