Its stock jumped 33 percent in its first day of trading
Shares of security vendor Fortinet surged 33 percent Wednesday as the company made its debut on the public markets.
China is blamed as attacks on Department of Defense systems are on pace to rise 60 percent
Cyberattacks on the U.S. Department of Defense -- many of them coming from China -- have jumped sharply in 2009, a U.S. congressional committee reported Thursday.
Privacy expert voices "backdoor" concerns, security researchers dismiss idea
The National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7, an agency official acknowledged yesterday during testimony before Congress.
The key issue is to treat smartphones with Wi-Fi as if they were corporate laptops with Wi-Fi
A new report from a mobile security vendor details how the most popular smartphones, including the iPhone, are very vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, carried out via public Wi-Fi connections.
Its competitors bought the information to entice customers whose contracts were nearly expired
Workers at T-Mobile UK have been selling customer data to brokers who work for the competition, T-Mobile and the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office said on Tuesday.
But lower infection rates for 64-bit won't stand, counters researcher
Windows users running 64-bit versions of the operating system are less likely to get infected by attack code, Microsoft's security team said yesterday.
Software lets pirates thwart Microsoft's antipiracy technology in new OS
Hackers have figured out how to sidestep Windows 7's activation process, continuing a long-running battle with Microsoft, which has blocked such tactics in the past.
More than 95 million Web sites – including 80 million using .com names and 15 million using .net names – will have access to new security mechanisms that prevent visitors from being unknowingly sent to phony sites engaged in phishing and pharming attacks.
WD's My Book Elite external hard drive has an eInk label and hardware encryption
Western Digital's refreshed My Book Elite 2TB external hard drive offers intuitive backup options, 256-bit AES hardware encryption, and an e-ink capacity indicator. However, there are faster USB 2.0-based external hard drives that have passed through our Test Centre, and it doesn't offer any alternative connections like eSATA.
Urges users to block ports until a patch is ready, but workaround cripples browsers
Microsoft late on Friday confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability exists in Windows 7, but downplayed the problem, saying most users would be protected from attack by blocking two ports at the firewall.
'Will not discuss' data centre policy preventing organisations from assessing the risk posed by placing enterprise applications in EC2
Amazon's cloud computing service should not be used for applications that require advanced security and availability, the Burton Group analyst firm says in a report accusing Amazon of secrecy regarding its cloud data centers.
Database hacking has gone mainstream and is becoming harder to detect
Database hacking has gone mainstream and is becoming harder to detect because of the increasingly sophisticated anti-forensic procedures hackers use to cover their tracks.
IronKey doubled the maximum capacity of its ultra-secure USB flash drive
It has been more than a year-and-a-half since I last reviewed an IronKey secure USB flash drive, so when the company sent one my way with a few new features I jumped at the chance to see if there had been any major improvements over the last version I tested.
A new zero-day bug has hit Windows 7. Here's how to keep it from harming your PCs.
It was a notable accomplishment when Windows 7 was not impacted in any way by the vulnerabilities addressed in the six Security Bulletins released by Microsoft for the November Patch Tuesday. It would be even more impressive if Windows 7 proved invulnerable to the zero-day exploit that hit the next day.
Under pressure to generate revenue, companies often do not even fix all of the problems
A majority of Web sites have at least one major security issue that could be used by hackers for fraud-related purposes, according to a new survey.