Media Coverage

Trend Micro’s one-time password (OTP)-based two-factor authentication bypass report (PDF) is hardly news to those in the tech world, but it is well-packaged and even branded with a weird name - Operation Emmental (also known as Swiss cheese) - how media-ready!

Cloud-based antivirus vendor Webroot is investing in joint marketing and seminars, white papers, training and support to grow its base of resellers in North America and attract managed service providers with a newly released console.

What the Goodwill breach illustrates -- and why old hacker tricks continue to work -- is the inadequacy of payment system standards. "Almost all major retail and credit card breaches occurred where a vendor or merchant was actually in PCI-DSS compliance," said Vijay Basani, CEO of EiQ Networks. "Regulations in general incentivize merchants to do just enough to pass a security audit."

The CAN SPAM Act is now 11 years old and as good as it has been, the Act needs to be updated to address the realities of modern marketing.

BlackBerry has always touted its mobile devices as secure. But now it plans to make them “more secure” by acquiring a German company that specializes in voice encryption.