As the result of a criminal cyber attack on the company’s data-center located in San Diego, California, U.S.A., SNEI shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services on April 20, in order for the company to undergo an investigation and make enhancements to the overall security of the network infrastructure. Working closely with several respected outside security firms, the company has implemented new and additional security measures that strengthen safeguards against unauthorized activity, and provide consumers with greater protection of their personal information.

This scam is unique because it is spreading differently than the usual scam and when you tag a friend in a photo, their friends also see it, and so it increases the spread more than the traditional scam post would.

My latest blog post for CIOUpdate.com went live this morning.  I talk about some of the trends I saw at RSA last week including emphasis on securing virtual and mobile environments.
RSA 2011- Industry Focusing on Virtualization, Mobility and Data — CIOUpdate.com.

The new virtual appliance gives organizations the flexibility to deploy the SWG on their own hardware of choice and in smaller environments.

Frustrated email users may have noticed a significant drop in spam in recent months, but cybercriminals are gaining ground with creative new phishing methods and making exploit kits more robust, according to the latest Security Labs Report from M86 Security, the global expert in real-time Web and email threat protection.

Clients will access this latest release via the Frontline Client Portal in order to retrieve real time reports, schedule scans, track remediation activities, and export results to third party applications via a Service Oriented Architecture Application Programming Interface (SOA-API).

The unified engine can be integrated into the products of security and networking vendors and into service providers’ infrastructure. Typical solutions that would benefit from the unified engine are software or hardware solutions or services that combine multiple security technologies, such as unified threat management (UTM), secure content filtering gateways and SaaS security solutions.

Because SIEM systems were not designed with privileged identities in mind, they have no way to tie security events that are triggered through use of these accounts with the individuals and processes responsible. This lack of visibility can leave IT staff with too little information to make informed decisions and the inability to differentiate between routine security events and potentially damaging – or even criminal – activity.

The integrations between ERPM and SIEM technology close this visibility gap by showing IT staff not only when and where critical events occurred, but also precisely who was responsible for any action that required the use of highly “super user” accounts. ERPM and leading SIEM solutions also work together to generate an audit trail to correlate the actions taken by privileged users with the security events that might result.

Imation is unveiling 64 gigabyte capacities of its Defender F100, F150 and F200 +Biometric Flash Drives. The company also is showcasing new security management software options.

The LynxWorks platform allows multiple guest operating systems (OSes) and applications to run safely and independently on a single device. Originally built for security-critical military, medical and avionics embedded applications; this market leading technology has now been extended to support the Enterprise.