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EMC Will Roll Security Automation Vendor NetWitness Into RSA
Rumors that circulated recently about EMC buying another data security-related company turned out to be true after all. The storage and data security giant announced April 4 that it has acquired Virginia-based NetWitness, a provider of network security monitoring and analysis software, and had closed the deal on April 1. Terms of the transaction were…
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RSA SecurID Breach: Spear Phishing Email Blamed
In spite of a surfeit of security technologies that it develops to detect fraud and malicious activity on networks in real-time, it seems that security firm RSA was unable to detect a targeted phishing attack last month before attackers took information related to the company’s SecurID authentication products. Over two weeks after informing its channel…
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Phishing Attacks Decline as Vulnerabilities Rise: IBM
Cyber-criminals shifted focus in 2010 to launch more sophisticated targeted attacks, IBM said in a new report. In short, 2010 was the year cyber-attacks became more about quality rather than quantity. While there was an increase in new vulnerabilities, exploits and types of attacks in 2010, more vulnerabilities were being identified before they could be…
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‘LizaMoon’ SQL Injection Attack Sprawls Across Net
A mass SQL injection attack that initially compromised 28,000 Websites has spiraled out of control. At the last count, more than a million sites have been compromised, with no end in sight. Security firm Websense has been tracking the “LizaMoon” attack since it started March 29. The company’s malware researchers dubbed the attack LizaMoon after…
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The State of the Security Workforce 2011
The State of the Security Workforce 2011 As of 2010, Frost & Sullivan estimates that there are 2.28 million information security professionals worldwide. This figure is expected to increase to nearly 4.2 million by 2015. No Title Three out of five security professionals said they got a raise in 2010. No Title The survey found…
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Sun.com, MySQL.com Hacked, SQL Injection Attack
The same hackers who exposed all the databases running on MySQL.com attacked Sun.com. The Rumanian hackers, “TinKode” and “Ne0h” compromised two Sun subdomains, including www.reman.sun.com and www.ibb.sun.com, according to a blog post on March 27. Using a SQL injection attack, TinKode was able to obtain table names, column names and email addresses stored in one…
