For Aaron Portnoy, vice president of research at Exodus Intelligence, Thanksgiving offered a chance to pile up a collection of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system vulnerabilities in addition to his mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce
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The Stockholm Stock Exchange, which is operated by Nasdaq OMX, was forced to shut down derivative trading following an order for futures contracts worth 130 times the total of Sweden's
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To keep up with businesses’ in-house secure development standards, third-party vendors are being expected to supply enterprise clients with increasingly secure code, according to software industry onlookers
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For years, companies have outsourced IT and software development tasks in an effort to cut costs. A recent strategic shift by General Motors to add up to 10,000 IT employees suggests there may be an advantage to moving such functions in-house
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A glitch in United Airlines’ dispatch system software resulted in hundreds of delayed flights across the country, raising doubts about the airline in the week before the busy Thanksgiving travel period
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The number of vulnerabilities discovered in industrial control systems (ICS), particularly supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, has increased significantly since the discovery of the Stuxnet computer worm raised the profile of ICS security
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One practice that has risen in prominence in recent years is paying out financial rewards, or “bug bounties,” to independent researchers who discover security vulnerabilities
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Many organizations have tightened their website and computer security in light of an evolving threat landscape
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A number of recently discovered flaws in antivirus software from Sophos highlight the importance of upholding secure development standards
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Deployed without the right support, static analysis tools can be undermined by employee resistance
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