Telecom infrastructure faces daunting risks, TATA CSO says

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• Telecom infrastructure faces daunting risks, TATA CSO says
• Former Salesforce.com execs form new security company
• Europe undertakes privacy and security research
• ZORKing Identity
• 40 search warrants executed as FBI goes after 'Anonymous'
• Study: Click fraud drops slightly in Q4
• Alleged 'scareware' vendors to pay $8.2 million to FTC
• Stuxnet could have caused "new Chernobyl," Russian ambassador says

Telecom infrastructure faces daunting risks, TATA CSO says Posted: 28 Jan 2011 08:10 AM PST As CSO for one of the world's largest telecom companies, Adam Rice knows just how easy it is to bring civilization to its knees. Here's what his company is trying to do about it.

Former Salesforce.com execs form new security company Posted: 28 Jan 2011 05:54 AM PST Okta is a San Francisco-based identity and access management service provider led by CEO and co-founder Todd McKinnon, former head of engineering at Salesforce.com, and president and co-founder Frederic Kerrest, who worked in sales and business development at the SaaS) provider.

Europe undertakes privacy and security research Posted: 28 Jan 2011 02:46 AM PST A research project under way in Europe aims to develop systems to help people protect and share their personal digital information.

ZORKing Identity Posted: 28 Jan 2011 02:00 AM PST When I look back to what was in the newsletter 10 years ago, as I do once a month, I frequently feel that I've been dropped into an adventure game featuring "...a maze of twisty little passages, all alike" because we never seem to be making much progress.

40 search warrants executed as FBI goes after 'Anonymous' Posted: 27 Jan 2011 03:17 AM PST Police agencies worldwide are turning up the heat on a loosely organized group of WikiLeaks activists. On Thursday U.K. police arrested five people, and U.S. authorities said they'd executed more than 40 search warrants in the U.S. in connection with last month's Web-based attacks against companies that had severed ties with WikiLeaks.

Study: Click fraud drops slightly in Q4 Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:43 PM PST After hitting an all-time high in the third quarter of 2010, click fraud incidence dropped last quarter, although the practice still rendered almost one in five cost-per-click (CPC) ads useless for the marketers that paid for them.

Alleged 'scareware' vendors to pay $8.2 million to FTC Posted: 26 Jan 2011 10:26 PM PST Two participants in a so-called "scareware" scheme settle a complaint from the U.S. FTC.

Stuxnet could have caused "new Chernobyl," Russian ambassador says Posted: 26 Jan 2011 10:09 PM PST The Stuxnet worm attack known to have struck computers at the Russian-built Iranian Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran has serious implications and could have caused "another Chernobyl," a Russian ambassador is said to have advised NATO yesterday, according to a Reuters report.

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