Ellen Messmer

Articles by Ellen Messmer

Cisco outlines plan for securing mobile, cloud apps

The company is enhancing three to work together, resulting in an "always on" VPN, plus beefed up client protection. But two industry analysts say the plan leaves a lot of questions

Are nations paying criminals for botnet attacks?

Nations that want to disrupt their enemies' banking, media and government resources don't need their own technical skills, they can simply order botnet attack services from cybercriminals

Gartner warns of cloud security ‘nightmare’

Analyst John Pescatore predicts cybercrime as a service with the rise of botnets and employees relying on networks and devices not owned by their companies

U.S. working on federated biometrics-based identity management

The U.S. Defence Department still lacks a common architecture for a unified biometrics capability but it continues to test DNA, fingerprint, facial images and iris scan technology ID management...

How registrars tackle domain name abuse

The CTO of one registry service provider has seen 250,000 domain names taken down due to malicious use. A McAfee expert speculates on why so many have a connection with Chinarn

10 most wanted botnets in America

Here's a rundown on the 10 most dangerous botnets that plague computer user in the U.S.

The botnet world is a booming world

The number of identified botnets has more than doubled in a year to 3,500, the ShadowServer Foundation says. Conficker isn

Sourcefire to rollout virtual security tool for VMware machines

Sourcefire 3D System 4.9, now in beta, can be used to inspect traffic between two physical hosts, two virtual machines or between a physical host and a virtual machine

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