Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Giant Squid
How does he know this? Chris Cosentino, the Bay Area’s "Offal Chef" at Incanto in San Francisco and PIGG at Umamicatessen in Los Angeles, opted for the most intimidating choice of all -- giant squid. "When it comes to underutilized fish, I wish the publ.....»»
Congress orders F-35 Software Plan
Congress ordered the Pentagon to establish an independent team consisting of subject matter experts to review the development of software for the Joint Strike Fighter program. The House Armed Services Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee asked the Pe.....»»
Attackers use Skype, other IM apps to spread Liftoh trojan
Countries in Latin America have been the primary targets in this campaign, researchers say. .....»»
Scammers on the hunt for Memorial Day deal watchers
Like they do with major news events and other holidays, online fraudsters are seeking to cash in on the upcoming Memorial Day weekend. .....»»
Proxy research firm settles charges with SEC over client breach
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a research firm the advises clients on voting in proxy fights, must pay $300,000 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. .....»»
Training Baggage Screeners
The research in G. Giguère and B.C. Love, "Limits in decision making arise from limits in memory retrieval," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v. 19 (2013) has applications in training airport baggage screeners. Abstract: Some decisions, su.....»»
Critical vulnerablilty discovered in industrial control product
The vulnerability was found in two programmable gateway devices often used by auto, food and manufacturing businesses in the United States. Meanwhile, a new study shows attacks against utility companies are growing. .....»»
Critical vulnerablilty discovered in industrial control product
The vulnerability was found in two programmable gateway devices often used by auto, food and manufacturing businesses in the United States. Meanwhile, a new study shows attacks against utility companies are growing. .....»»
Happy Hour Hot Links: Week of 5/20
Every Friday, after the SC Magazine news team has taken a few spins around the interwebs, we post some security-related links that we found interesting. We hope you do too. .....»»
Killer apps: The performance of networked applications
Ipanema Technologies and Easynet Global Services unveiled the results of Killer Apps 2013, a major study into the performance of networked applications. Networking budgets are back on the rise: ........»»
Scanner identifies malware strains, could be future of AV
When it comes to spotting malware, signature-based detection, heuristics and cloud-based recognition and information sharing used by many antivirus solutions today work well up a certain point, but th........»»
New Report on Teens, Social Media, and Privacy
Interesting report from the From the Pew Internet and American Life Project: Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006: 91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 200.....»»
Zeus variants are back with a vengeance
After analyzing the feedback from the company's Smart Protection Network, Trend Micro researchers have noted an upswing in attempted Zeus / Zbot Trojan infections. After being practically non-exi........»»
Fighting cybercrime is on the right track
Despite the numerous security incidents that took place during the first quarter of the year, the fight against cyber-crime is on the right track, according to PandaLabs. Though there is still a ........»»
Google set to upgrade its SSL certs
As a fine example of proactive security, Google has announced that it will be upgrading its SSL certificates to 2048-bit keys by the end of 2013. "We will begin switching to the new 2048-bit certif........»»
IT security pros have trouble communicating with executives
A Hanover Research survey of 131 information security professionals revealed key differences between the way executive and non-executive IT professionals communicate with senior leadership. Key s........»»
Facebook phishers target Fan Pages owners
Phishing emails claiming to come from "Facebook Security" are once again hitting users' inboxes, and this time they are aiming for the big fish: pages that are likely to have more followers than a ran........»»
Idaho State University to pay HHS $400K after investigation reveals shoddy security
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services continues to ramp up its investigations of health care-related entities as a result of breaches. .....»»
Congress to Army: Get Your Own Cargo Drone
Congress has ordered the Army to reconsider its initial refusal to stand up a cargo drone program despite the success the Marine Corps has had flying Lockheed Martin’s K-MAX unmanned cargo helicopter in Afghanistan. The House Armed Services Tactical Ai.....»»
Commission offers suggestions for stemming online spy threat from China
The 100-page report mostly addresses alleged Chinese cyber espionage operations, and suggests it's time for U.S. government agencies and corporations to consider more proactive approaches, possibly including hack-backs. .....»»