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Symantec announced earlier this week that it is launching a new subscription business whereby it is renting out its security expertise to corporations that need constant vigilance in the war against cybercrime. That’s right – they’re renting out an employee. It doesn’t sound that novel. Oh wait, there’s more: it’s one of Symantec’s finest, aRead more

You are downtown and don’t have an EVDO/3G connection. After scanning the area, you find an SSID called Free Internet 4 You. Cool! You connect to the network, start checking your emails and maybe do some financial transactions, and you’ve probably fallen into a trap. This tricky HotSpot works just like any other, but itRead more

By: Yves Lacombe   Many people use SPF (Sender Policy Framework) as an anti-spoofing measure. They create an SPF record in their DNS zone for their domain. From time to time, some customers will do business or use third party services that will send out Email on behalf of their domains and unfortunately, this willRead more

SC Magazine reports that scientists working in U.S. Department of energy have been able to create a simulated botnet consisting of more than one million machines. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California, headed by Ron Minnich and Don Rudish, were able to boot more than one million kernels, or the central component of mostRead more