Microsoft’s cloud-based email services experienced a global outage affecting millions of Hotmail, Office365, SkyDrive, and other Microsoft Live-based products earlier today.  Reports are that most of the services are now restored and coming back online, depending on DNS propagation, which can take as a matter of process hours to take effect. “Other services, including Windows ...

Will your organization be on the list?  Just a short few weeks ago, the US Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $9.2 million dollar contract to the professional services firm KPMG to provide HIPAA audit services. The awarded contract anticipates completing 150 audits that vary in size and scope. According to the recovery.gov ...

Michael Bermin from Catbird and Christopher Hoff from Juniper sat in on a virtualization security discussion on TheCube at VMworld 2011 (full video below).  On the heels of Catbird Security’s announcement that it is partnering with VMware to integrate VMWare vShield App firewalling capabilities into its flagship vSecurity product, Bermin offered some perspective on the unison ...

Earlier this week, LogLogic released a new generation of its software that offers a number of exciting new features.  The LogLogic 5.2 software is now configurable to allow restrictions in regards to data privacy at multiple levels based on various requirements.  This functionality allows for specific compliance with regional privacy requirements, commonly seen in the ...

The news of Steve Jobs’ resignation has set the news sites and blogosphere into a ferocious frenzy. No doubt the magnitude of this news and the consequence of what lies ahead are drivers to what will surely be record-level chatter on the internet and beyond. As one of the most valuable companies in the world, ...

It gets little coverage here, but adding to the overall picture of worldwide cyberattacks, a couple of recent stories from Asia indicate their own growing problems with security. In Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was briefly affected by a hacker attack earlier this week. “The Hong Kong stock exchange was forced to suspend ...

Let the CyberWars begin.  Former hacker Peiter Zatko, also known as “Mudge,” announced a program that started this past Wednesday called Cyber Fast Track at the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas this last week. Zatko, a program manager at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) , shared details of the program which is aimed ...

The state of the country’s cybersecurity is in peril. The very thought of the extent of the latest reports in this “Cyber Rat” case should make us all cringe. It just screams pathetic. Gone are the days of fun and Lulz. The tsk tsk of Sony’s problems executing even the most basic of security. While those ...

Details surrounding the alleged capture of famed hacker Topiary as announced today will continue to emerge in the days to come. The announcement is curious however in this analyst’s opinion as the nature of the notorious group is one of a unified cause. That cause has been clear in LulzSec’s releases from the very beginning ...

A recent survey reported on at DarkReading touched on the dilemma of security versus productivity.  Citing an available report from Crossbeam Systems, this classic balancing game pits the desires of functionality and performance against the demands of ramifications of security in the enterprise.  500 network security, IT, and C-level executives at companies worldwide were surveyed ...