Datamation Staff

ITPro: VASCO Data Security International has confirmed that its subsidiary, DigiNotar, has filed for bankruptcy. In July, DigiNotar, which was a Dutch certificate authority (CA), learned that a hack attack had led it to issue 531 rogue SSL certificates. In August, the news of the cyberattack became public. “Although we are saddened by this action […]

CloudPro: Although Gmail has been around for five years, market research firm Gartner says the cloud computing service is only now becoming a “viable alternative” to Microsoft’s Exchange communications server. “The road to its enterprise enlightenment has been long and bumpy, but Gmail should now be considered a mainstream cloud email supplier,” wrote Gartner’s Matthew […]

Cnet: Go Daddy has confirmed that about 445 of the websites it hosts were hacked last week. Attackers apparently obtained usernames and passwords for the sites and then redirected visitors to other sites that features malware. “We are still investigating the issue, but so far our security team is confirming this was not an infrastructure […]

BBC News: A document sent to Facebook developers indicates that greater integration between Facebook and Twitter is coming soon. Now, Facebook allows only bands, public figures and businesses to link their Facebook feeds to Twitter accounts, but the company plans to roll out the same functionality for all Facebook users. The change will be an […]

The Register: The largest defense contractor in Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, has confirmed that it was the target of a large cyberattack. The company, which makes submarines and parts for missiles, said that 45 network servers and 38 PCs at 10 of its locations had become infected with malware. “We’ve found out that some system […]

The Korea Times: As soon as the iPhone 5 launches in Korea, Samsung says it will sue Apple to seek a sales ban on the new smartphone. “Just after the arrival of the iPhone 5 here, Samsung plans to take Apple to court here for its violation of Samsung’s wireless technology related patents,” said an […]

CIO: In a survey conducted by Dimensional Research for Dell KACE, 87 percent of enterprise IT pros surveyed said that employees at their companies use personal devices for work. 80 percent said that employees use their own smartphones and 69 percent said employees use their own PCs. While that may be good news for the […]

ComputerWeekly: A new report from US Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) finds that employees are increasingly responsible for data breaches at financial institutions. In fact, the average financial firm suffers $800,000 in losses due to breaches by managers, sales staff and other non-technical personnel. The report cited the poor economy as one reason why insiders […]

Computerworld: Oracle has issued an emergency security patch for some of its Apache Web servers. The fix addresses a vulnerability which could allow attackers to conduct a complete denial of service attack. Enterprises will need to apply the patch if they use impacted versions of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle […]

Science Daily: University of Michigan professor Kang Shin and doctoral student Xinyu Zhang have developed a new approach to power management for WiFi devices that could extend battery life by as much as 54 percent. Their Energy-Minimizing Idle Listening (E-MiLi) technique puts smartphones and other mobile devices into “subconscious mode” when they are not actively […]

NetworkWorld: The U.S. government has officially certified many of Amazon’s cloud computing services as secure enough for government agencies to use. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service and Virtual Private Cloud were all awarded Federal Information Security Management Act Moderate Authorization and Accreditation (FISMA). Some agencies are prohibited from using services that do not […]

Washington Post: Facebook has announced that it is adding a new “Subscribe” button to the site that will allow users to follow the public feeds for people that they aren’t “friends” with. The button also gives users more control over their newsfeed: They can decide how many of a friend’s posts they want to see, […]