Some absolutely shocking threats and claims have emerged from a fairly new hacking group on the scene. DefCon’s “y3ti” tipped us off to the group that calls themselves Parastoo that first emerged at the end of last year.  Their latest chilling release confirms their earlier claims with an incredible stash of sensitive intelligence that was ...

HP has announced a new research organization designed to help organizations better understand the evolving threat landscape and build an effective defense strategy against cybercriminals, hacktivists and other forms of cyber attack.  The company also released its annual HP Cyber Security Report, providing insight into the vulnerability landscape with a range of data covering technologies ...

Numerous sources have confirmed that Evan Powell, CEO of Santa Clara-based Nexenta will step down today as CEO under undisclosed circumstances.  He assumes the position of CSO in the company and had served as its CEO since 2007.  Privately held and founded in 2005, the company brings an open philosophy to software-defined storage and uses ...

Once upon a time the limits of security were based on a reactive approach, relying heavily on signature-based methodologies, the industry would react to the latest and greatest threats out there to secure and protect the business.  It suited the times, but as the security realm became more business standardized, the approach of proactive security ...

Without a doubt, the Big Data Revenue and Market Forecast from Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly is a must-read.  There are so many little nuances within that plain fact is that the report is the definitive knowledge point of where Big Data is today and clues to what’s ahead.  It’s the non-proprietary ground zero for Big Data. ...

A Twitter tip (@zrotech) has us on to the breaking news of NBC.com being hacked and serving up Citadel malware. A quick search turned up the following information on the Hitman Pro blog – A few hours ago Ronald Prins of Fox-IT (@cryptoron) was tweeting about NBC.COM spreading malware. We were investigating this as well ...

As promised Sony announced the Playstation 4 today, their next generation game console.  There were details galore and a real good look at the controllers.  Then we got to see the console itself in all its design glory.  Wait.  I don’t seem to remember seeing it.  Did anyone see it?  Maybe “make. believe” is “make ...

It’s been just over a month since Oracle released their latest update for Java.  The updates were needed to cover a very public and very ugly giant vulnerability.  Recall that it was just before that time that there was continued advice and calls to disable and even uninstall Java on your systems.  As it turns ...

Cyberattacks are leading the headlines today as China has naturally denied the accusations that these attacks came from them.  This is hardly a surprise as these attacks are persistent and the getting right now is just so good for them.  The outrage emerged with a confluence of events that transpired this week.  First there were ...

Could Amazon be looking at spinning off its Amazon Web Services? One analyst points to a number of signs that say yes, it is inevitable. The Investors Business Daily reported on the comments from Oppenheimer analyst Tim Horan that says the cloud computing unit would be better off as a publicly traded subsidiary: “We believe ...