Airplane Security Commentary

...security Third: A terrorist set fire to his own trousers, suffering eyewateringly painful burns to what Australian cricket commentators sometimes refer to as the "groinal area", and nobody seems...

Google Admitting Compromise Good News

...security testing was performed It is time for organizations to take a hard look at the set of client software they allow on their employees workstations and determine how trustworthy that...

Clearing The Cloud 3: Some Security What-ifs

Security expert Ariel Silverstone continues his series on the threats facing the cloud and how best to secure it

Hacking risks persist even if firms leave China

Google and other enterprises still face a bleak computer security landscape that makes their companies vulnerable to hackers, whether they do business in China or not, analysts say

Hackers used rigged PDFs to hit Google -- and Adobe, says researcher

Adobe today confirmed that the cyberattack that hit its corporate network earlier this month was connected to the large-scale attacks Google cited yesterday as one reason it might abandon China

Beyond the opening: a priori is a problem

Two related points from areas nominally outside infosec 1. Bruce Schneier on Rachel Maddow show talking about Underwear bomber, in response to the question "will any of these new TSA measures will...

Gemalto offers fix for German payment card date bug

Smart card vendor Gemalto said Wednesday it is distributing a software fix to banks for a programming glitch that caused millions of German payment cards to stop working

500,000 fines for companies that lose data

Organisations that lose sensitive data could be fined up to 500,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office

Hacking risks persist even if companies withdraw from China

Google and other enterprises still face a bleak computer security landscape that makes their companies vulnerable to hackers, whether they do business in China or not, analysts say

Pushdo Serving Crimeware, Client-Side Exploits and Russian Bride Scams

In need of a good example why you shouldn't be interacting with spam/phishing emails in any other way but reporting/deleting them, unless of course you're in the business of analyzing them Last...