Please change your linkedin passwords now. I mean right now.

LI confirms that “some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts.” Please change your linkedin passwords now. …

Latest Infosec Controversy Highlights the Real Issue: We are Getting Hacked.

And yet the controversy only highlights the real issue: we are getting hacked every day in attacks that span the entire spectrum of sophistication.

Do Criminals have your ATM Card number and PIN? Skimming is big business in Dallas and Austin.

I recently read “Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground”(Google Books Preview, Library, Amazon), a well-written and …

Researcher finds new security flaws in SCADA PLC systems, decides not to expose them at TakeDownCon.

In a blog post today at nsslabs.com, NSS CEO Rick Moy lauded the infosec acumen of researcher Dillon Beresford, saying …

You can’t make this stuff up. It really would be interesting to know who’s behind the Sony Breach.

Seriously.  Could you even make these stories up? Sony comes clean.  They admit that 77 million records were compromised. In …

Decrease in hacked records points to craftier attacks, not better security

Decrease in hacked records points to craftier attacks, not better security

An InfoWorld article summarizes the Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report(DBIR) and shows that – surprise! – the attackers are …

Do Not Assume Your Shopping Carts are Secure

…some of the major shopping cart providers, Amazon, Google and Paypal have software flaws

Hacktivists and ‘the Professionals’ should make 2011 quite interesting

From Hacktivists to ‘the Professionals’, DDoS attacks are a major tool. http://ow.ly/3sKj2 And detailed DDoS discussion: http://ow.ly/3sKhs

Zeus and the new wave of sophisticated threats

Zeus appears to be a sea change in the story of malware.