Agencies struggle to meet Obama's Open Government Directive

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• Agencies struggle to meet Obama's Open Government Directive
• Sophos founders in $300 million buyout deal
• The LoveBug worm: Ten years later
• Clear gearing up to return to airports
• U.S. Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware
• Security truths get lost in the cloud
• Will we finally learn the truth about 'Webcamgate'?
• 5 Technology Security Myths, Busted
• Microsoft fixes bug in Producer software
• An information security blueprint, part 1
• Victorian councils, libraries taught security in hack

Agencies struggle to meet Obama's Open Government Directive Posted: 04 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT An audit of efforts by government agencies to meet the Obama administration's Open Government Directive found some agencies have created strong plans while others are having problems.

Sophos founders in $300 million buyout deal Posted: 04 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT Sophos, the UK-based security and data protection firm, has dropped plans for an IPO and has announced a deal to sell a majority interest in the company to private equity group Apax Partners.

The LoveBug worm: Ten years later Posted: 04 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT Ten years ago today, on May 4, 2000, a security team with MessageLabs, a provider of messaging security services, came in to work and discovered the number of viruses its system had intercepted in the last several hours was off the charts.

Clear gearing up to return to airports Posted: 04 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT Clear is back. The troubled U.S. company that, for a fee, bumped travellers to the front of airport security lines has found a new owner and is now gearing up operations, according to its newly reactivated Web site.

U.S. Treasury Web sites hacked, serving malware Posted: 04 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT Three Web sites belonging to the U.S. Department of the Treasury have been hacked to attack visitors with malicious software, security vendor AVG says.

Security truths get lost in the cloud Posted: 04 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT There was an awkward moment during the keynote address for The Experts Conference last week. Conrad Bayer, Microsoft's general manager for identity and access, was addressing the delegates of the Directory and Identity track and, while talking about enterprise and organization movement to cloud computing, put up a slide that compared the migration to the cloud of small, midsize and large organizations.

Will we finally learn the truth about 'Webcamgate'? Posted: 03 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT By tomorrow we should know a lot more about Webcamgate, the scandal surrounding a tony school district outside Philadelphia and how it used school-issued laptops to spy on its students.

5 Technology Security Myths, Busted Posted: 03 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT Think you can hide behind the privacy of an "unlisted" cell phone number? Think again. Maybe you believe you don't need security software on a Mac or iPad. You'd swear that Firefox is the safest browser in town. Wrong on both counts.

Microsoft fixes bug in Producer software Posted: 03 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT Microsoft has released a new version of its Producer software, fixing a critical security problem that plagued the product for several months.

An information security blueprint, part 1 Posted: 03 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT The recent the Hydraq attacks were the latest example of just how radically the Internet threat landscape has changed over the past few years, and how vulnerable companies and their information stores are to cyber attacks. The attackers were not hackers, they were criminals attempting to steal intellectual property. Hydraq is an example of how cybercrime has evolved from hackers simply pursuing public notoriety to covert, well-organized attacks that leverage insidious malware and social engineering tactics to target key individuals and penetrate corporate networks. Many of today's attacks are highly sophisticated espionage campaigns attempting to silently steal confidential information. This should raise the alarm for companies of all sizes and across all industries, as information is a business' most

Victorian councils, libraries taught security in hack Posted: 03 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT A hacker has busted the security of eight Victorian Government websites in a string of minor attacks on Sunday.

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