by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technicals
from the embrace-the-slack dept. Microsoft has published an explanation of the failure of Windows Azure earlier this month. Users of the Azure storage saw that an SSL certificate had expired. Microsoft’s explanation says that the certificate had in fact been...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | Blog Entry, Data Recovery, HACKING, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technicals
from the burrs-on-the-heel-of-the-foot-would-be-mercy dept. It appears that two weeks ago my email address got into the wrong database. Since that time there have been continuing attempts to access my accounts and create new accounts in my name. I have received emails...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 5, 2013 | NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
San Francisco — Despite the best efforts of cloud service providers and industry groups like the Cloud Security Alliance, cloud security remains a troublesome issue for IT execs. At an RSA session devoted to cloud security, IT security pros complained about the...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, SECURITY
from the brought-to-you-by-c-sharp dept. Oracle has once again released an emergency Java update to patch zero-day vulnerabilities in the browser plug-in, the fifth time it has updated the platform this year. Today’s update patches CVE-2013-1493 and...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
The Chinese government has pointed out hundreds of thousands of hacking attacks coming from the US as it continues to defend itself against an analysis conducted by security firm Mandiant. At the same time, Team Cymru, a security organisation from the US, has...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
At RSA Conference, security execs say using big data for security may be a future issue but it’s a little much right now “I don’t call it Big Data,” I call it garbage data,” said Jerry Sto. Tomas, director of global information security...
