It’s cyber security month, and if you weren’t following that and the news that cyber security organizations are being attacked at an extremely high rate this month, well another alarming cyber crime report become public today.  Following  yesterday’s “Cost of CyberCrime” report from the Ponemon Institute and HP, Group-IB released its own annual report this ...

HP today unveiled the results of an annual cyber attack study of companies worldwide conducted by the Ponemon Institute.  The research in the report shows that both the cost and frequency of cyber attacks continues to increase for the fourth consecutive year. Cybercrime Up 78 Percent, Time to Resolve Attacks More Than Doubles The findings ...

13 alleged memebers of the hacktivist group Anonymous were indicted by a federal grand jury, as described in an 28-page indictment unsealed Thursday in an Alexandria, Virgina US district court.  The indictment describes a series of online attacks in an that were launched under the banner of “Operation Payback”.  The attacks were distributed denial of ...

Brad Arkin, Adobe’s Chief Security Officer stated on the Adobe blog late yesterday that hackers had broken into their computer network and had taken both customer data and software source code that could be used to launch hidden attacks. “Attackers removed from our systems certain information relating to 2.9 million Adobe customers, including customer names, ...

Twitter.  $1 Billion dollars.  TWTR – that’s the ticker.  Those are the short facts that came out today about the much anticipated and highly watched public offering for the social media company.  As we look deeper at the story, a lot of interesting details were also disclosed with the filing of the S-1 form with ...

This story has everything – Hitmen, Bitcoins, Drugs – it’s like a chapter out of the Walter White book.  The Silk Road is gone – busted by the FBI and shut down in a significant operation that was announced by the agency today.  If you don’t know what Silk Road is, that’s okay, the online ...

The halls at Rackspace must be feeling quite different lately as another, actually a fifth former senior executive has left the company to join Austin-Lenexa based Codero Hosting in the last year.  The latest is Robert Autenrieth, who as announced today joins Codero as COO and Vice President, Technical Operations and Support.  He had previously ...

Among the various guests broadcast on theCUBE this week from the Las Vegas Splunk Conference .conf2013 was Demetrios Lazarikos, also known as “Laz”.  Lazarikos has a real-world perspective on current security and technologies with a background as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Sears Online Business Unit, and as an IT Security Strategist and ...

News out of Good Technology just keeps rolling out.  The Sunnyvale-based company is a leader in mobile enterprise technology.  Their comprehensive line of secure mobility solutions and ongoing innovations designed for the enterprise have been joined by the announcement of support for the IBM MobileFirst Application platform- IBM Worklight 6.0. IBM Worklight provides app developers ...

Another week, another revelation about the NSA.  This time the New York Times has reported that the NSA is collecting social networking data about US citizens.  Here’s what they’re collecting: Who your friends are, who your contacts are, location information, and more.  This isn’t a spreadsheet, but a massive sophisticated graph of all this social ...