Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front since its $1.2 billion buy of Yammer in July. But this week the software giant picked up a small, 11-year-old company Overland Park, Kansas company called PhoneFactor. PhoneFactor, with fewer than 50 employees, specializes in what’s dubbed “multi-factor authentication.” Essentially, it creates a another layer of authentication… Read More…
Today Microsoft announced “Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps.” Product roadmap update announcements often aren’t terribly interesting, but oftentimes the bland naming hides the full scope of what’s really happening. Today is no exception. Microsoft is making a rather dramatic change in its server security offerings, signaling a narrowing and shift in focus and bidding goodbye to nearly all… Read More…
A small Florida online publishing company named Blue Toad has inserted itself into last week’s Anonymous/AntiSec-FBI story about an iOS data leak — making an already murky story even murkier. And while everyone likes a good crime story, this latest twist just underscores how affected users are the ones left holding the bag. If you’re… Read More…
Do you think of copy/paste as a security risk? You should. Code vulnerabilities that propagate through code reuse (i.e. copy/paste) are no laughing matter. One small error, like an unchecked buffer, can find its way into tens or even hundreds of different projects and products. The risks are particularly acute when talking about code samples… Read More…
It was one year ago today that Zillow competed its initial public offering, a milestone that we noted in our story yesterday on the impressive rise of the online real estate company. Now, two other tech companies are looking to follow in Zillow’s successful path, hoping July 20th marks some magical date. So far, it… Read More…
A 25-year-old Russian man has been arrested for masterminding two denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com, attacks that occurred in the summer of 2008 and prevented customers from accessing the Web site of the Seattle online retailer. Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha was indicted in May 2011, and was just arrested in Cyprus this week. “These cyber bandits do… Read More…
Could a high-tech solution help solve Seattle’s rising gun violence problem? On Thursday, The City of Seattle’s Public Safety Committee plans to discuss the possibilities of installing ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system that uses acoustic sensors and software to triangulate where shots were fired. Meanwhile, an accompanying video surveillance system can be used to capture images of… Read More…
David Benjaim Schrooten, a 21-year-old Dutch computer hacker who operates under the name “Fortezza,” is scheduled to make his first court appearance today in Seattle as part of a 14-count indictment alleging that he stole and marketed thousands of stolen credit card numbers. Arrested in Romania in March, Schrooten arrived in Seattle on June 9th… Read More…
LinkedIn today updated its users on the stolen password fiasco that arose last week in which 6.4 million passwords were illegally obtained and posted on a Russian Web site. According to a blog post from LinkedIn’s Vicente Silveira the company has received no reports that member accounts have been breached as a result of the… Read More…
A sophisticated piece of malware targeting computers in Iran and other parts of the Middle East spread in part by disguising itself as a piece of Microsoft software, taking advantage of a flaw in one of the company’s older cryptography algorithms. That’s the word from Microsoft in a blog post published over the weekend. The… Read More…
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