Jack Rogers

 
 

Recent Articles

One step ahead of HIPAA

March 18, 2008

Using a solution from Aveksa, CIGNA automates a role-based access workflow for 27,500 employees.

Cyber Storm II exercise shows improvement in preparedness

March 18, 2008

The Department of Homeland Security's second massive cybersecurity exercise has revealed improved preparedness across IT infrastructures and government agencies, compared to the first "Cyber Storm" in 2006, according to the acting director of DHS's National Cybersecurity Division.

Jury finds for Finjan in patent suit against Secure Computing

March 13, 2008

A U.S. District Court of Delaware jury has found that Secure Computing, and its subsidiaries CyberGuard and Webwasher, infringed three patents that Finjan Software created over the past decade.

ICANN proposals on fast-flux not tough enough: Experts

March 12, 2008

Security experts have expressed skepticism that recent recommendations from ICANN for combatting fast-flux hosting will do much to stop the practice, which is utilized by criminal bot herders to mask their activities.

Screensaver spam is new malware from old gang: Sunbelt

March 10, 2008

A new wave of "3D screensaver" spam is directing recipients to a malware site from a notorious malware gang that had ceased activity in January after their site was attack by a rival group of cybercriminals, researchers at Sunbelt reported.

Civil liberties lawyers hail reversal of Wikileaks shutdown

March 04, 2008

A federal judge's decision last week to reverse his own ruling and lift what he had declared was a "permanent" injunction shutting the Wikileaks.org site for posting bank documents has been hailed by civil liberties lawyers as an important benchmark in applying First Amendment protections to such sites.

Phishing lures draw recipients to fake video of "dead" Castro

March 03, 2008

A phishing email is in circulation attempting to lure recipients to fake news video purporting to come from a major Hispanic TV network and showing former Cuban President Fidel Castro lying in a coffin with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez in tears at his side, Websense has warned.

"Goolag" search-scan tool unlikely to spawn major attacks

February 25, 2008

A new tool that uses the Google search engine to scan websites for vulnerabilities -- released last week by the flamboyant Texas-based hacking consortium known as Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) -- is not likely to enable a wave of new attacks from hackers, experts say.

"Hard" encryption keys, TPM thwart "cold boot" theft: Experts

February 22, 2008

In the wake of a Princeton research team's surprising announcement of a simple method for stealing encrypted data from DRAM chips on PCs -- even after the unit's power has been shut off -- security experts told SCMagazineUS.com on Friday that the tools to thwart these thefts already are available.

Spam lures to eclipse "videos" laced with malware appear

February 21, 2008

Websense has warned that spam emails have emerged which attempt to dupe recipients into downloading videos of Wednesday's total lunar eclipse but instead deliver an information-stealing trojan to the user's PC.