Internet Security News

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Piracy legislation ultimately misses the mark
V.i. Labs' Vic DeMarines: The Stop Online Piracy Act has a lofty goal, but the execution of such a plan is tricky. Unfortunately, the frenzy over fears of censorship has quickly overshadowed the actual intent and purpose of the bill: Take action against online piracy, theft of intellectual property and copyright infringement.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

CounterTack raises a $9.5M Series A funding, lands in Waltham
Straight off of founding his latest startup, local tech veteran Neal Creighton has been tapped to be CEO of a real-time cyber attack security software company that is relocating from Virginia to Waltham and renaming itself CounterTack.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Turbine game forums 'compromised,' fixed
Turbine Inc. took down its player forums for its game Lord of the Rings Online over the weekend, due to a security issue that the company said in a FAQ could have led to hackers gaining access to a player’s forum account.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Blog: Verisign's Internet security powers may be stretching too far
MHT's James Connolly blogs: Verisign is suggesting that it be able to immediately shut down websites that violate Verisign's policies, not only on court orders but even on the simple request of law enforcement. Aren't we forgetting about due process?

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Data security firm Wave Systems raises $11.1M
IT security tools developer Wave Systems Corp. of Lee has raised $11.1 million in an equity round tied to its acquisition of Israeli security company Safend Ltd. last month, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

L-1 Identity becomes MorphoTrust USA, taps Eckel as CEO
Morpho, the security business of France-based aerospace defense security company Safran group, said today that Robert Eckel will serve as CEO of MorphoTrust USA Inc., the company that was formed in July 2011 after L-1 Identity Solutions was acquired by Safran for $1.6 billion.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Former Harvard fellow Swartz charged with hacking MIT, JSTOR
In an ironic turn of events, Aaron Swartz, 24, of Cambridge - a former fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics - has been charged with stealing more than four million documents from the academic papers archive JSTOR by hacking into MIT.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

GeoTrust co-founders launch AffirmTrust
The founding team of SSL certificate vendor GeoTrust has come together again to launch AffirmTrust as an SSL certificate firm to compete in the same space as VeriSign, which acquired GeoTrust in 2006.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Kerrigan takes CEO helm at Abine
Abine Inc., The Online Privacy Company, has appointed a new president and CEO in William Kerrigan, the former president and CEO of Montreal Internet security firm RadialPoint.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Security entrepreneur Kaspersky's son missing in Russia
The son of Russian anti-virus software entrepreneur Yevgeny "Eugene" Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab in Woburn, is missing in Moscow and may have been kidnapped, Russian media report.
White House unveils strategy for online ID credentials
The White House released its strategy for developing an "identity ecosystem" on the Internet, where individuals could use a single credential to prove who they are instead of remembering multiple passwords.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

NSA director Alexander discusses network security for businesses
Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, participated in the University of Rhode Island's first Cybersecurity Symposium. Before racing back to a jet to head back to Washington, Gen. Alexander answered a couple of questions for Mass High Tech.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Boston tech firms target ads with users' mobile data
Let Big Brother and do-not-track legislators worry about what you read online. Madison Avenue increasingly just wants to know where you are, every minute of the day. To feed that hunger, a cluster of fast-growing Boston companies is trafficking in information that could be far more sensitive — and valuable — than what you search via Google.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Kaspersky collects General Atlantic backing
Kaspersky Lab, the Russian Internet security firm with its Americas headquarters in Woburn, has taken in an investment from Connecticut’s General Atlantic LLC for an amount that, while undisclosed by the company, is reported at $200 million.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Ozzie to retire from Microsoft
Five years after he joined Microsoft Corp. as CTO following the Seattle giant’s purchase of his Beverly company Groove Networks Inc., Ray Ozzie will be stepping down from his current role as chief software architect, and eventually retiring from the company.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Newton ISP sues Google over Mass. WiFi customer privacy
Newton Internet service provider Galaxy Internet Services Inc. is suing Google Inc. on behalf of Massachusetts WiFi users whose privacy may have been violated by Google’s Street View photo mapping cars.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Novell, Verizon team up on cloud security service
Waltham-based open source software company Novell Inc. is teaming up with Verizon Communications Inc. to offer a security product for businesses running cloud-based applications.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Boston ranked second U.S. city for cyber crime
A new study has Boston ranked number two among U.S. cities as a place to do business — that is, if your business is stealing sensitive data from other people’s computers.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Harvard spins out now-independent StopBadware
Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society reports it has spun out its StopBadware group as an independent nonprofit funded by Google Inc., PayPal Inc. and the Mozilla Foundation.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Guilty plea in TJX, Hannaford-related hacks
Accused of conspiracy in the hacking attacks on payment systems supporting companies such as retailers TJX Cos., Hannaford Brothers Co. Inc. and 7-Eleven, Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, today pleaded guilty to the final charges against him in U.S. District Court in Boston.