-based Mandiant(acquired by FireEye) on a Chinese group linked to sustained cyberespionage activity. The move by the Justice Department is not likely to have a measurable impact on global espionage, said Jon Heimerl, a senior security strategist at Solutionary, an Omaha, Neb.-based managed service
Jon Heimerl, a strategist for security services provider Solutionary, said he had one client, a CEO at a company, who bought a new BMW every three years. A hacker found out he was looking to buy, sent him an email purporting to be from a local BMW dealer and asking him to fill out a survey in exchan
And at least one analyst says Sony acted correctly by shutting down PSN when it did. "For a crisis mode incident response, we could hardly have asked for better," Jon Heimerl, director of strategic security for Solutionary, recently told eWeek.
Date: May 03, 2011
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Sony Execs Promising Phased PlayStation Network Restoration this Week
Despite complaints from gamers, Sony did the right thing in disabling the PlayStation Network, Jon Heimerl, director of strategic security for Solutionary, told eWEEK. After disabling the network, they hired someone more qualified to investigate and fix the problem and divulged what information
Date: May 02, 2011
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Sony Says PlayStation Credit Card Data Was Encrypted
"In a way, it is bigger than it looks," says Jon Heimerl, director of strategic security for Solutionary. "When they start getting passwords, security questions, addresses and the other types of information they got, that exposes consumers to a lot of vulnerabilities and issues not just at the Sony