WASHINGTON D.C. - Philip Lieberman, author and CEO of security firm Lieberman Software, believes United States is on the brink of suffering a major cyber attack from another nation state that will severely damage the country's national infrastructure. The security expert has spoken out as the U.S. falls into its latest bout of international confrontation,
SEOUL - South Korea has accused North Korea of launching a recent cyberattack that hit tens of thousands of PCs. A spokesman for South Korea's Internet agency said today that six computers in North Korea were identified as the source of the attack, according to The Guardian. Those computers used more than 1,000 IP addresses
WASHINGTON DC - Six cybertools have been designated as weapons by the U.S. Air Force, allowing the programs to better compete for increasingly scarce Pentagon funding, an Air Force official said on Monday. Lt. Gen. John Hyten, vice commander of Air Force Space Command, told a conference held in conjunction with the National Space Symposium
NEW YORK - A major cyberattack against a European spam tracking company last week appears to have originated from a gang of Russian hackers, The Wall Street Journal reported. Spamhaus, a Geneva-based spam tracking firm, had been the target of a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack, where at one point traffic flowing to the site reached levels
REDMOND - Microsoft will toughen up its products' security by adding dual-factor authentication soon, according to a report by Liveside.net. Judging by details in the Microsoft-focused blog, the approach closely mirrors what Google did years ago: authorization requiring both a password (the first factor) and a special six-digit code retrieved from an authenticator app on
SAN FRANCISCO - Samsung has tapped Absolute Software to embed the corporate security solutions provider's patented persistence technology onto its mobile devices -- most notably onto the upcoming Galaxy S4 smartphone. Headed for Samsung Knox when it debuts this year, Absolute boasted that Samsung's mobile devices will then be the first worldwide to offer "constant,
SAN FRANCISCO - In September 2011, security companies first noticed a new malware scam for OS X, which posed as a fake Adobe Flash installer, and hence became known as Flashback. Unlike prior scams, this malware took on some new approaches to tricking users by infecting common browsers, disabling Apple's XProtect system, and eventually morphing
SOUTHFIELD ? The Motor City ISSA chapter's April meeting will feature Mark Stanislav who will offer his perspective on the 10 tips for success when you hire a Pen Tester. The April 18 meeting also will feature a discussion of how to mitigate 21st century cyberthreats - a five-point plan for selecting enterprise security Stanislav,
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple's nearly year-and-a-half old iMessage service has been found to be vulnerable to an attack that uses a flood of messages, or messages so long that the application is rendered unstable. According to a report from The Next Web, a small group of developers have found themselves the target of an attack
JACKSON ? Consumers Energy electric customers with solar generating systems can sell their surplus output back to the electric utility for a fix price contract over 15 years. But they need to submit their applications by May 8. Starting April 1, Consumers Energy electric customers can submit applications for what?s called the non-residential capacity in