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$11.7m judgment against Spamhaus slashed to $27,000

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A federal judge has handed a major victory to anti-spam crusaders Spamhaus, slashing an $11.7m verdict to just $27,002. US Judge Charles P. Kocoras of the Eastern District of Illinois said the plaintiffs, e360 Insight and its founder David Linhardt, failed to credibly calculate the damage that resulted when its promotional emails were targeted by Spamhaus.

Alex
Jun 16, 2010

The HacKid Conference: An idea whose time has come

I go to a lot of security conferences, almost always without my family in tow. The logistics and money involved with trekking them from one part of the country to the next is usually beyond my resources. But when a conference is local and there's something in it for the kids, I'm in 100 percent.

Alex
May 07, 2010

Sourcefire Founder and CTO to Discuss Dynamic Network Security at FS-ISAC Conference

Sourcefire, the creators of Snort(R) and a leader in intelligent Cybersecurity solutions, today announced that its founder and CTO, Martin Roesch, will speak at the FS-ISAC 2010 Spring Conference. During the session, Roesch will discuss the techniques and solutions financial institutions need to implement to protect their data from today's evolving threat landscape.

Anthony Pell
May 06, 2010

Infosec 2010: Prepare for the information security revolution, says PwC

Trends including the increase in web data and the number of people accessing the internet will have implications for information security in the future, says a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), commissioned by government body the Technology Strategy Board.

Anthony Pell
Apr 28, 2010

Cybersecurity, Privacy Hot Topics at InfoSec World 2010

Each spring, the MIS Training Institute hosts InfoSec World, an educational event that brings information security practitioners together to learn from each other. This year, volcanic fallout prevented a few participants from making the trek. But those who attended were treated to detail-rich sessions about today's biggest security threats.

Anthony Pell
Apr 27, 2010

How Young Upstarts Can Get Their Big Security Break

Companies crave experience in their security staffers, dimming prospects for entry-level applicants. Bill Brenner on how a young upstart can break through. If you're young, breaking into the security industry can be hell.

Alex
Apr 26, 2010

Google is paranoid about security

Web search leader Google is paranoid about security, but only its own. Not the security of the data that it readily admits it controls.

Alex
Apr 14, 2010

Chrome Browser, Unhacked

Late last month, another kind of games was held in Vancouver: the Pwn2Own contest, where computer-security researchers were invited to hack computers using unknown, or

Anthony Pell
Apr 12, 2010

The Mighty Fall at Pwn2Own

Owners of Apple products have a tendency to be complacent about security, but the results of this year's Pwn2Own contest suggest a little more wariness may be in order. "It's the fourth year they've run the contest, and every year someone's broken into Safari," noted Charlie Miller, the security analyst who won $10,000 and a MacBook Pro for hacking the browser in this year's event.

Alex
Mar 26, 2010

iPhone, Safari, IE8, Firefox all fall on day one of Pwn2Own

Hackers took down Apple 's iPhone and Safari browser, Microsoft 's Internet Explore 8 (IE8) and Mozilla's Firefox within minutes at today's Pwn2Own contest, as expected. The two-man team of Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann exploited the iPhone in under five minutes, said a spokeswoman for 3Com TippingPoint, the security company that sponsored the contest. The pair also walked away with $15,000 in cash, a record prize for the challenge, which is in its fourth year.

Anthony Pell
Mar 25, 2010

Privacy is not dead, says SXSWi keynoter Boyd

Privacy is not dead in the era of online social networking. It just needs careful curation. That was the message Saturday from Danah Boyd, a social-media expert who works for Microsoft Research and who was Saturday's keynote speaker at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) festival here.

Alex
Mar 22, 2010

RSA: DHS Chief Launches Cybersecurity Competition

Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Janet Napolitano announced the National Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Challenge Competition, a contest to solicit ideas from individuals and industry about how to best engage the American public in a discussion about cybersecurity.

Alex
Mar 04, 2010

Pwn2Own 2010: interview with Charlie Miller

Pwn2Own is a famous contest held in CansecWest Conference. Every year there is a big reward for researchers who finds exploitable bugs in popular browser and OS and also in mobile devices like iPhone. For the past two years the Pwn2Own contest champion was Charlie Miller (0xcharlie on Twitter), one of the most famous bug hunter and security expert in the world.

Alex
Mar 02, 2010

RSA Conference debuts new security gear

As RSA Conference 2010 opens this week in San Francisco, vendors are using this major security show to launch products ranging from hardware to software to virtual appliances in an effort to address specific network security needs. Here are some of those offerings.

Anthony Pell
Mar 02, 2010

Cloud Security Alliance releases top cloud computing security threats

The Cloud Security Alliance and Hewlett-Packard will release research today at RSA Conference that identifies the top threats to cloud computing. The document is a companion to the CSA's "Security Guidance for Critical Areas in Cloud Computing," which was updated in December.

Anthony Pell
Mar 01, 2010

RSA Conference 2010: 4 Survival Tips

The first time I attended the RSA Conference in 2005, I was overwhelmed. The show floor is massive and once you go in it can be hard to find the right door out. Vendor salespeople swamp you. The Tuesday-morning keynotes can be an assault on the eyes, with speakers standing in front of massive uber-resolution screens.

Anthony Pell
Feb 25, 2010

In black and white: how to use anti-spam lists

The Internet Research Task Force's (IRTF) Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) has produced a summary of how DNS blacklists and whitelists (DNSBLs and DNSWLs, designated in the RFC as DNSxLs) should be used and of the security issues which need to be considered when doing so. The summary is in the form of a 'Request for Comments' (RFC 5782).

Anthony Pell
Feb 19, 2010

Hackers At Pwn2Own to Compete for $100K in Prizes

A hacking contest next month will award cash prizes of $15,000 to anyone who can break into an iPhone, BlackBerry Bold, Droid or Nokia smartphone. The prizes are 50% more than the top awards given last year at Pwn2Own, which will kick off March 24 at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Altogether, $100,000 could be handed out by 3Com TippingPoint, the contest sponsor.

Anthony Pell
Feb 16, 2010

Open Source conference in Copenhagen

Open Source Days is the largest open source conference in the Nordic area. It's your opportunity to meet, share, and learn from professional open source experts.

Anthony Pell
Feb 11, 2010

Why CSOs Should Care About ShmooCon

Many CSOs view ShmooCon as an event of small importance. You don't see the suits and ties that are on display at RSA. In fact, to those who haven't attended, this conference is just a place where twenty-something hackers come to get drunk and throw TVs out hotel windows. Another crazy Black Hat/Defcon-caliber conference, more than one high-level security exec has told me in the past.

Alex
Feb 10, 2010

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