The IE security flaw that was uncovered this past weekend may only the beginning of post-retirement woes for the family of Windows XP operating systems. The tech community has had to accept that Windows XP is retired, with no further patches or updates as of April 8th.  Going even further than your typical flaw announcement, the ...

Cisco today announced its new Managed Threat Defense Service, a managed security solution designed to help customers defend themselves from the modern threat landscape.  The new service was designed in response to the many significant challenges in IT security. Cisco aims to lead a market filled with a variety of ‘fragmented’ solutions.  The difference in Managed Threat ...

In an annual event that could help shape the IT security field for the future, the 2014 HacKid conference took place over this past weekend, April 19-20 at San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation.  The focus of the conference was to provide hands-on experiences to kids aged 5-17 and their parents, to raise awareness and ...

Tango down!  Michaels has confirmed the latest in credit card breaches as many as 3 million credit and debit cards were potentially stolen in yet another retail malware attack.  Michaels officially reports that the situation has been contained, but for many it echoes of last year’s massive POS malware attacks on Target that affected 40 ...

IBM watchers, take a deep breath and relax.  On Wednesday, IBM reported quarterly financial revenue that was its worst in five years.  Some truly epic numbers are unfortunately found throughout the report – at the high levels, 4 percent revenue shrinkage of $22.5 billion, net income shrinkage of 21 percent at $2.38 billion and a ...

The first of what are likely to be several arrests made in connection to the Heartbleed vulnerability has come out of Canada.  Nineteen year-old Stephen Arthuro Solis-Reyes of London, Ontario was charged by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with the unauthorized use of a computer and one count of mischief in relation to data.  ...

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Here we are.  The day after the big XP apocalypse and we’re all still here.  The Heartbleed SSL vulnerability has grabbed all the headlines the last couple of days for good reason.  However just because you got some cash at the ATM this morning does not mean the XP threat has gone away or was ...

In IT circles, the phrase ‘bleeding heart’ may never mean what it used to as news of this extremely serious Heartbleed vulnerability is traveling fast. The vulnerability was recently found in Open SSL, the most popular library used to secure the internet in widely used distributions. OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the Secure ...

It’s the message few want to hear and few have even heard of.  According to author Kevin Freeman’s book Secret Weapon, cyber Attacks have been traced to the greatest financial stresses that have affected the US over the last five years – a major recession, a failed real estate market and massive job losses are ...