A class-action lawsuit for $20 million has been filed against Stanford Hospital & Clinics over a patient data breach in which personal information on 20,000 emergency room patients was posted on a public website for a year.
Check Point introduces blades to tackle botnets
Check Point has taken the wraps off its 33rd software blade technology, which is an anti-botnet platform designed to counter the problems of botnets and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
£30 graphics card can brute-force crack any eight character password in just four hours
A £30 graphics card can now process as many as 158 million passwords a second
Plusnet migrates anti-spam systems to Cloudmark
Plusnet, the Sheffield-based ISP, has announced it is migrating its several million customers from their existing IronPort based anti-spam / anti-virus email security platform and over to a new solution provided by Cloudmark.
Weather report: Cloudy, with a chance of data leakage
Almost half of organizations said their IT staffs are not ready to adopt the cloud, with data security cited as a top concern, according to survey sponsored by Symantec.
Betfair security chief leaves in wake of data breach publicity
Hard on the heels of reports that data on Betfair’s 3m-plus customer base had been hacked by cybercriminals in the Far East, reports are now saying that the the betting exchange’s security chief has left the company.
Vodafone New Zealand’s international net access hit by DDoS attack
The interconnected nature of the global internet was highlighted earlier this week when a DDoS attack on a Californian company also downed Vodafone New Zealand’s international web access.
Vodafone New Zealand’s international net access hit by DDoS attack
The interconnected nature of the global internet was highlighted earlier this week when a DDoS attack on a Californian company also downed Vodafone New Zealand’s international web access.
Earl Eugene Schultz: 10 September 1946 – 2 October 2011
It it with deep regret that Infosecurity has to report that Eugene Schultz – arguably one of the founding figures of the IT security industry – passed away on Sunday after a short illness.
McAfee joins SIEM buying spree by snapping up NitroSecurity
Another primarily SIEM firm is about to fall off the radar, as McAfee announced plans to purchase security information and event management (SIEM) provider NitroSecurity.