Internet Identity

Speaking on behalf of myself, Dear U.S. Government: I was reading some interesting articles the past few weeks: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/... http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/..... read more

Cyber intrusions that remain undetected for long periods of time and leak information to hackers and online spooks are on the rise, spearheaded by an aptly-named form of spam called spearphishing. Between 2010 and 2011, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks... read more

Unless you’ve been stuck on a desert island for the past nine months or so, you most likely have heard about or encountered the fallout of a wide ranging, nearly continual cyber assault on banks, often referred to as “Brobot”... read more

A new Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) that will research cyber threats and other security and technology issues will be launched at Georgetown later this month. Eric Burger, research professor of computer science, will serve as director of the... read more

A new Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) that will research cyber threats and other security and technology issues will be launched at Georgetown later this month. Eric Burger, research professor of computer science, will serve as director of... read more

Georgetown University said on Monday that it would launch a new Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) later this month that will that will research cyber threats and other security and technology issues. According to S2ERC’s Website, the mission of... read more

Apache servers are being ambushed by a particularly pernicious malware program called Linux/Cdorked.A that's infecting visitors to the sick machines with the Blackhole malware kit. Discovered by security researchers at Sucuri and Eset, they describe the malware a a sophisticated and... read more

The heart of the Internet, represented by DNS, hosting and emails services, has found itself increasingly bombarded by criminals looking to pump out more lucrative malware, according to a new study. A particularly disturbing fact about this development, say security... read more

Phishing attacks on enterprises can be calamitous in terms of compromised networks or damaged brand names, and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), which aggregates and analyzes phishing trends data worldwide, offers some of the best insight from industry into what's... read more

When businesses opened up their networks to personal devices, they simultaneously opened up their doors to more security problems.  “Any time you bring something new onto a network, you will have security concerns,” said Rod Rasmussen, chief technology... read more