Angela Moscaritolo

 
Angela Moscaritolo, senior reporter, SC Magazine
Senior Reporter Angela Moscaritolo writes daily IT security news and feature stories for SC Magazine's website and print edition. Prior to coming on board as a reporter at SC Magazine in September 2008, Angela worked at newspapers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New Jersey. She worked at The Northern Valley Suburbanite in New Jersey, The Dominion Post in West Virginia, and the Uniontown-Herald Standard in Pennsylvania. Reporting for newspapers, she primarily covered city government, school boards, and local breaking news. She is a West Virginia University Perely Isaac Reed School of Journalism graduate.
 

Recent Articles

A "critical" turning point: The nation's critical infrastructure.

January 03, 2012

A recent string of alarming incidents highlights glaring shortcomings in the security of the nation's critical infrastructure.
 

Mozilla fixes crash issue after new Firefox version issued

December 22, 2011

One day after releasing version 9 of its Firefox web browser, Mozilla on Wednesday issued Firefox 9.0.1 to address an issue that caused Windows, Mac and Linux users' browsers to crash.
 

Yahoo deploys two-factor authentication for email

December 20, 2011

The feature, which is currently available for users in the U.S. Canada, India, and the Philippines, requires a second form of verification beyond a password for any "suspicious" login attempt.
 

Spam drop, but targeted attack rise, is key 2011 takeaway

December 20, 2011

Spam volume dropped dramatically from 379 billion messages daily in August 2010 to 124 billion this November, according to Cisco, as crooks opted for more pinpointed attacks that could fly under the radar.
 

Hackers steal 200,000 card numbers from wholesaler

December 19, 2011

Hackers breached the systems of New York-based food services wholesaler Restaurant Depot, and stole hundreds of thousands of credit and debit card numbers.
 

NYC authorities charge 55 in cyber fraud, ID theft ring

December 19, 2011

The defendants were part of a coordinated operation that resulted in the theft of more than $2 million from JP Morgan Chase Bank, TD Bank, Citibank, Discover and American Express.
 

SOPA could harm security on the internet

December 16, 2011

Experts warn the controversial anti-copyright bill, SOPA, would undermine efforts to bolster internet security through the implementation of DNSSEC.
 

Industry group creates guidelines for issuing SSL certs

December 15, 2011

New standards, set to go into effect July 1, 2012, are based on best practices across the SSL/TLS sector. But some researchers, who have called for an overhaul of a system they say is antiquated, don't think standards will help.
 

Out-of-band fix for Adobe Reader security issue coming Friday

December 15, 2011

An out-of-cycle patch is coming to fix a flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9 for Windows.
 

Microsoft to begin silently updating IE in 2012

December 15, 2011

Borrowing a page from other web browser manufacturers, Microsoft soon will automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of IE.
 
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