April 29th, 2009 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) has launched the “Open Cloud Standards Incubator”. The goal of the initiative is to develop specifications that define how companies transfer applications and data between cloud environments – whether the clouds are located at one of the company’s data centres or not. In cloud computing, the main focus for [...]
April 29th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Cloud computing is getting the top concern and achieved a lot of interest in the RSA2009 conference while the biggest issue in cloud is security many security software companies are working these days to adapt there security solutions to the cloud computing. Panda security team have announced today there free cloud antivirus solution, they have [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing Security 
Tags: freeware, Malware, Panda Cloud Antivirus, Rootkit 
1 Comment » April 29th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Verizon Business RISK team recently released its “2009 Data Breach Investigations Report,” which gives a fresh look into the question of whether insiders or outsiders are the larger threat group. The report concludes that 74% of breaches result from external sources and “the predominance of total records lost was attributed to outsiders.” With nearly [...]
April 28th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The Conservative government in Canada last week introduced the Electronic Commerce Protection Act to help cull sources of spam and other malicious activity from within Canadian borders. Although it was introduced as “the Government of Canada protecting Canadians” those of us in the industry recognize that this is a global problem, and the amount of [...]
April 27th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to Nemesis/t3am3lite (name of a website), Symantec’s site too is now open to XSS (cross-site scripting) attacks together with Iframe injections. An XSS attack, according to security experts, launches when a web program collects vicious data from an end-user mostly via a hyperlink that carries malicious content inside it. Thus, as the end-user clicks [...]
Posted in Vulnerabilities Tags: Security, Symantec, Vulnerability, Web, XSS Vulnerability 1 Comment » April 27th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Jolyon Jenkins investigates whether we have lost the war on cybercrime and looks at a new criminal economy which has grown to feed the demand for our most private details. Jolyon finds that the security details of ordinary members of the public – their bank details, passwords, and secret security questions are being openly traded [...]
April 26th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The U.S. military is planning to create a new military command to focus on cyberspace and protect its computer networks from cyber attacks, Pentagon officials said Wednesday. The move comes as the White House prepares to release a broader study on the nation’s cyber security. Officials in recent months have warned increasingly that the nation’s [...]
