Mashable’s Jolie O’Dell recently posted a story on Black Hat Hackers landing legit jobs.  Hackers have long been the bane of organizations throughout the industry.  This is especially true as a result of the high-profile security incidents over the last few months. In a recent Wikibon post centered on Security vs Compliance, Exempa SCL Health Systems ...

Devices that hardly existed just a few short years ago are creeping into enterprises today at increasing rates.  These include such names as iPhones, Androids, tablets, and even netbooks manifest in all kinds of flavors and varieties.  The workforce is demanding these new consumerized products as opposed to the old notion of mobility, laptops that are ...

Lulzsec has teamed up with Anonymous and called for attacks on any and all agencies that cross their path.  Encouraging other would-be hackers to use the term “AntiSec,” they are calling all hackers in the world to unite, steal and leak any classified information, and release this information under the name “Operations Anti-Security”.  Banks and ...

LulzSec unleashed their 1000th tweet upon the world today.  In a provided link, the text that follows was posted and serves as a fresh manifesto of sorts.  Interestingly, they acknowledge among other things that they may one day be brought to justice.  This is a departure from the general air of invincibility espoused in previous statements.  ...

LulzSec is keeping people busy all over the interwebs this week and filling up the news with their headline activities.  The latest attack was a DDOS takedown of the CIA’s main public web site, cia.gov.  This latest in a series of brazen attacks comes on the heels of their hacking request line stunt known as ...

A recently announced recall of RSA’s SecurID  product is causing waves across the industry.  Navigating these events and considering the implications, we review some of the aspects and analyze where the industry stands in relation to these conditions. Breaches The details on the various federal contractor breaches have continued to emerge in recent news.  Anofficial recent ...

Winston Prather, vice president and general manager of Hewlett Packard’s NonStop Enterprise division, and Randy Meyer, Director of NonStop Product Management, Strategy and Technology, Business Critical Systems, and Technology Solutions Group, dropped by theCube with Dave Vellante during the HP Discover event and shared some of the big news around the ever evolving NonStop platform ...

In its latest attack, the notorious hacker group LuLZsec has infiltrated the FBI-affiliated site Infragard.  In its proclamation, LulzSec cites Obama and Nato and their treatment of hacking as an act of war as inspiration for its latest effort. “It has come to our unfortunate attention that NATO and our good friend Barrack Osama-Llama 24th-century ...

The rash of significant security breeches including Sony, RSA, Lockheed Martin, Epsilon mark a watershed moment in cybersecurity.  In general, most attacks of the past could be classified as being based on opportunity.  Not anymore.  These attacks were all specific targets that comprise espionage and malice of government and corporate institutions.  They have become increasingly ...

The gaming console world has no shortage of its own “fanboys” in either the Playstation or XBOX camps.  But with E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo coming up in a few days, one has to wonder what if anything will be mentioned of the state of these gaming networks.  We have seen the Sony PSN and related networks ...