Sue Marquette Poremba

 
 

Recent Articles

Report: 60 percent of businesses hit by cybercrime

September 18, 2008

A recent U.S. Department of Justice survey indicates that the majority of American businesses have detected one or more cyberattacks.

Microsoft to release secure development tools

September 17, 2008

Microsoft announced that it would make available three Security Development Lifecycle programs and tools to help the industry improve security and privacy technology.

Apple fixes another DNS vulnerability

September 16, 2008

Apple released a security update for its Mac OS X to fix several security issues, most notably for the notorious DNS cache poisoning problem and a vulnerability within PostScript font names.

Spam, malware spread by Google Groups

September 15, 2008

Spammers are using thousands of Google Groups to spread unwanted email and malware.

Firefox adds privacy mode

September 12, 2008

Mozilla, joining Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Google's nascent Chrome, plan to add a private browsing mode when it releases Firefox 3.1.

U.S. intellectual property protection goes worldwide

September 11, 2008

Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate aimed at reducing intellectual property theft around the world.

Health information security standard issued

September 10, 2008

A new standard spells out detailed controls for managing health information security.

CIS to release consensus IT security metrics

September 08, 2008

Coming soon: An assemblage of consensus-based IT security metrics, developed by the Center for Internet Security (CIS).

Unauthorized web servers connected to IRS network

September 05, 2008

The Internal Revenue Service found 1,811 unauthorized web servers connected to its network.

Botnet spread skyrockets in summer

September 03, 2008

The number of computers infected with botnets has quadrupled during the last three months.