Former DHS Cybersecurity Chief Reitinger Named Sony CISO
Former Department of Homeland Security cyber-security chief Philip Reitinger has been named as the new executive vice president and Chief Information Security Officer of Sony Corporation.
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PlayStation Network Stronger Than Ever, Says Sony Exec
In the wake of what will likely go down as the biggest gaming failure since Virtual Boy, Sony chief executive, Howard Stringer claims the PlayStation Network is more secure than ever, according to a report from CNET.
YieldManager Ad Network Serving Malvertising
One of the world’s largest advertising networks, YieldManager, has been serving ransomware to websites from all over the world. The malvertising campaign was first detected by Armorize’s HackAlert scanning farm.
A Massachusetts man plead guilty on charges of foreign economic espionage on Tuesday after selling trade secrets from his former employer to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer.
As the now famous iOS hacker best known as “Comex,” Nicholas Allegra was more than willing to weigh in on the vulnerabilities of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. But now that he has accepted a position as an intern at Apple, Comex said his jailbreaking days are over.
Just a month into its cash-for-bugs program, social networking giant Facebook doled out some $40,000 in bounties to researchers from 16 countries, according to a company statement.
Despite the media’s love-affair with Anonymous style cyber-anarchy and vigilante-hacktivism, the vast majority of DDoS attacks are carried out by criminals seeking financial gain, not activists, according to a new research report.
Twitter is at the beginning of a process that will eventually make HTTPS browsing a default feature on the popular micro-blogging platform. The company currently is experimenting by turning HTTPS on for a small percentage of users.
The Ramnit worm, known by researchers for its use of somewhat old-school malicious techniques, has now changed some of its tactics and morphed into financial malware, researchers say.
A federal court in New York has dismissed a case in which the plaintiff claimed that a third-party advertiser had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by sniffing her browser history and using flash cookies, ruling that the plaintiff didn’t prove that the actions were harmful enough.
