Big Data and the Cloud Roadblock

EMC conducted a survey of U.S. Federal Government IT Security stakeholders recently, and one of the results that struck me was one around cloud adoption. We usually hear about security being an impediment to the wide-scale adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies, but our survey revealed another interesting barrier.

Businesses Beware: Qakbot Spreads like a Worm, Stings like a Trojan

While the name Qakbot may sound funny, the Trojan is targeting business and corporate accounts—and no one is laughing. Named after its main executable file, _qakbot.dll, the Qakbot Trojan is not new; however the RSA FraudAction Research Lab has uncovered some unique attributes of Qakbot rarely seen before in other financial crimeware.

James Bond and the Quantum Worm (aka stuxnet)

Only a select few have had a look at the script of the next James Bond feature film. It seems like Quantum, the secret criminal organization that in previous installments was busy short-selling the stock market by staging terrorist attacks and taking over water supplies to control the economy of South America, has a new [...]

Worlds Collide*: From Plane Crashes to Stuxnet

Our IT infrastructures are as real as any road, ship or city in the world today. They have the ability to directly influence and interact with the real world in as real and impactful a way as any object in the physical world. Let’s try saying that another way to be really clear: the world of information is as real and interchangeable and impactful to us as the world of guns, germs and steel…