Data Security

A computer researcher has released a plug-in for the Firefox web browser that lets anyone scan open Wi-Fi networks and hijack, for example, Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Todd Thibodeaux, president and CEO of CompTIA, will present research from a recent study, which looks at causes and costs involved with IT security breaches.

Bob Maley, former CISO of the state of Pennsylvania, will address data protection strategies at the upcoming SC World Congress.

The personal information of thousands of Mississippi National Guard personnel was inadvertently posted online for several weeks, beginning in early September.

A University of North Florida (UNF) computer file containing the sensitive information of students may have been accessed by a foreign hacker.

This week Doug Burks and I needed to decrypt a few gigabytes of SSL traffic to find a TCP stream that contained a key word. We learned a bit along the way so I’m passing it along here. First, full packet capture rocks. You are capturing EVERY packet that goes in and out of your […]

Should organizations be concerned about hackers eavesdropping on employee conversations? One security vendor expert says "yes."

Oracle on Tuesday released a massive quarterly security update with fixes for a number of enterprise products, as well as a separate batch of security fixes for Java.