Last year, when the world found out that the DigiNotar had been hacked, it was clear that the Dutch government would be highly affected, mainly because it procured most of its digital certificates from the company. It turns out that the damage caused by the certificate authority to state institutions rises up to $11.... |
10 May 2012
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GlobalSign representatives admitted that an open source software that was left unpatched on one of their servers allowed cybercriminals to gain access to their systems and steal a digital certificate.
A company executive told ZDNet that the application had not been updated because it wasn’t “included in... |
26 April 2012
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Last week Kaspersky experts came across a piece of malware that was signed with a stolen digital certificate in order to avoid detection. If the security experts concentrated on the malware itself, other companies such as Venafi, the inventor of enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) solutions, focused th... |
25 March 2012
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Software giant CA Technologies, originally known as Computer Associates, has sold its antivirus unit to venture capital firm Updata Partners which will operate it as a standalone company.The new company will be provisionally called Total Defense, Inc, after CA's primary antivirus product, and will be established... |
17 May 2011
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Ranked as the top botnet threat by InfoWorld this summer, the atrocious Zeus botnet was discovered to have infiltrated Amazons EC2's cloud computing service. This comes as the first successful (if we can say that) botnet infiltration in one of Amazon's cloud-based services, renowned for their safety and per... |
10 December 2009
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After an engine signature update from 31.6.6672 to 33.3.7051, the CA eTrust anti-virus went completely mad and started to display numerous false positive infections with StdWin32. This was later fixed by CA with an emergency update, 34.0.6674, and written instructions on the company's customer support web page.A... |
13 August 2009
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According to a recently released study conducted by The Strategic Counsel and sponsored by CA, company that specializes in providing IT management software solutions, while external security threats are going down, insider related ones are increasing. In the last year alone, consumer discontent in regard to data loss... |
17 July 2008
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Some people say hackers are working 24 hours a day and, sometimes, I really tend to believe it. For a hacker, compromising the site of a software company or a security vendor is like talking to God for a Christian, so they are really struggling to reach their goal. This time, they somehow managed to do it because som... |
7 January 2008
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Computer Associates announced today they're donating the huge number of 225,000 licenses of their brand new 2008 anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Anti-Spam software to the Boys & Girls Club of America (BGCA). This is a great initiative! It's not every day you hear about a cyber-security company doing such a th... |
11 October 2007
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The Sunnyvale giant Yahoo signed a deal with CA, a provider of several security utilities that can make the Yahoo Toolbar product more safe to use against all kinds of Internet threats. The new browser add-on will bring several utilities to all the consumers such as desktop search, email alerts, instant access to Yah... |
26 July 2007
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Windows Vista hit the shelves on January 30, 2007, with one of the major issues surrounding the operating system being the lack of support. Recently, Eugene Kaspersky, the head of virus research at Kaspersky Lab revealed that the operating system will suffer in terms of protection due to the fact that the security in... |
8 May 2007
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