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  • Should you stop using RSA SecurID tokens?

    Anyone using RSA SecurID two-factor authentication tokens for remote access to sensitive information should reconsider using them until RSA, which last week admitted to a major breach of its network, clarifies exactly what was compromised, says NSS Labs.

  • Cyberattack-alert system could be model for U.S.

    An ambitious project to create a statewide cyber-alert "early warning" system in the state of Washington to link with the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is starting to take shape and could be a cybersecurity monitoring model for other states.

  • Corporate data breach average cost hits $7.2 million

    The cost of a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/030311-security-roundup.html?t51hb&amp;hpg1=mp">data breach</a> went up to $7.2 million last year up from $6.8 million in 2009 with the average cost per compromised record in 2010 reaching $214, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/012510-data-breach-costs.html">up 5% from 2009</a>.

  • The DDoS Hall of Shame

    Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks like the ones that nailed WordPress blogs in early March have been around for decades, but it's only in the last dozen years that they've had enough impact to grab public attention.

  • Wordpress whacked for second day by DDoS attack

    For the second day in a row, blog-hosting giant WordPress.com suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack that it was able to cut off quickly. The motive remains a matter of speculation.

  • PayPal CISO: DDoS one big security threat among many

    Stung by a high-profile denial-of-service attack in December, PayPal's CISO says application layer attacks remain a major threat to businesses in general, which need better defenses and actual testing of the DDoS tools they have.

  • Anonymous forces HBGary Federal CEO to step down

    The hactivist group Anonymous has won for now its skirmish with the CEO of HBGary Federal, the network security firm whose e-mails were stolen and posted on the Internet, leaving the company red-faced over the content as well as the ease with which its network was hacked.

  • Bruised by Anonymous, HBGary Federal pulls out of RSA

    E-mails stolen by hactivist group Anonymous indicate that the security company it targeted was proposing to make a “new breed of rootkit” and that it passed along the plan to a technology firm that caters to the federal government.

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