Green memories accelerate ROI for data centers
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.
View ArticleSiemens' 'damage control' response to SCADA bug frustrates researcher
Siemens said it intends to fix a vulnerability discovered in its industrial control system products, but the NSS Labs researcher who found the bug says the company seems to be downplaying the...
View ArticleDropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say, but the provider...
Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers, but the provider has since closed the vulnerabilities.
View ArticleDespite Stuxnet, Duqu, control system flaws still overlooked
Efforts to strengthen critical infrastructure targets continue to focus on front-end systems rather than on underlying industrial control systems where the real problems exist, security experts warned...
View ArticleHard to fully assess Duqu threat yet, researchers say
As new information about Duqu continues to come out, some experts are starting to question whether the danger posed by the trojan has been exaggerated.
View ArticleThe water pump alarm
If nothing else, the now disputed "hacking" of an Illinois water utility has brought the spotlight back to shine on the vulnerability of our national infrastructure.
View ArticleSecurity roundup for week ending Dec. 2: Carrier IQ stink, SCADA troubles
If a cyberattack from a hostile foreign source ever hit a public electric or water utility, affecting its industrial control systems, causing America's critical infrastructures to fail, would we...
View ArticleGoogle employees said to be testing Android 4.0 on Samsung Nexus S
Google is working out any bugs in the latest update to the Android mobile operating system before releasing it broadly, and that's good news for Samsung Nexus S users.
View ArticleHoneypot for phony waterworks gets hammered on Internet
An experiment in which a Trend Micro researcher set up two instances of an Internet-based simulation of an industrial-control system (ICS) for a nonexistent water-pump facility in rural Missouri found...
View ArticleBoeing technology offers secure, efficient way to tie together business,...
The Boeing Company is pioneering a way to securely bring together business IT networks with what ordinarily are entirely separate networks for industrial-control systems (ICS) in order to gain...
View ArticleBrazil's ban on U.S. Internet services may prove futile
Brazil's government is considering installing new hardware locally to reduce the country's dependence on U.S. services for Internet access. The move comes in response to reports that the U.S....
View ArticleThe Internet of Things could encroach on personal privacy
A recent White House report on big data wonders aloud about the capability of sensors and smart meters to turn homes into fish tanks, completely transparent to marketers, police -- and criminals.
View ArticleFeds issue bulletin warning about malicious 'Google dorking' cyber actors
If you are good at research by using Google searches, does that make you a malicious cyber actor? Of course not, but DHS, FBI and NCTC (National Counterterrorism Center) have issued a bulletin warning...
View ArticleGoogle will stop patching Chrome on Android 4.0 next month
Google today said that it would stop serving updates to Chrome for Android on devices running "Ice Cream Sandwich," or Android 4.0.x, in mid-April.
View ArticleProminent healthcare CIO: FDA medical device security warning "will be the...
Dr. John Halamka has taken to his "Life as a Healthcare CIO" blog to sound the alarm on medical device threats in the wake of the FDA late last week issuing its first cybersecurity warning about a...
View ArticleThe six pillars of Next Generation Endpoint Protection
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.
View ArticleSiemens' 'damage control' response to SCADA bug frustrates researcher
Siemens said it intends to fix a vulnerability discovered in its industrial control system products, but the NSS Labs researcher who found the bug says the company seems to be downplaying the...
View ArticleDropbox cloud was a haven for data thieves, researchers say, but the provider...
Files entrusted to cloud-storage provider Dropbox were susceptible to unauthorized access via three attacks devised by security researchers, but the provider has since closed the vulnerabilities.
View ArticleDespite Stuxnet, Duqu, control system flaws still overlooked
Efforts to strengthen critical infrastructure targets continue to focus on front-end systems rather than on underlying industrial control systems where the real problems exist, security experts warned...
View ArticleHard to fully assess Duqu threat yet, researchers say
As new information about Duqu continues to come out, some experts are starting to question whether the danger posed by the trojan has been exaggerated.
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