| Facebook announces revamp of user profiles - Sophos ask if it’s bigger? Better? Safer? |
| December 2010 by Sophos |
| Facebook today announced its New Profile, designed to help users share their experiences, discover common interests and highlight meaningful relationships. The service will be rolled out across Facebook’s 500 million accounts over the coming months. According to a Facebook blog, the new feature encourages users to, “Give a more complete picture of how you spend your time, including your projects at work, the classes you take and other activities you enjoy (like hiking or reading). You can even include the friends who share your experiences." |
| IT security and control firm Sophos is advising Facebook users to think carefully about how much information they are willing to share using this new service. Information about users’ life and lifestyle is much more use to identity thieves, cyberscammers and fraudsters than it is to the average person that might be a friend on Facebook. “Adding features to facilitate sharing updates, interests and photos may be appealing to some Facebook users, however people need to be wary about how much personal information they’re willing to give away online,” said Carole Theriault, senior security consultant at Sophos. “Many Facebook users are online ‘friends’ with complete strangers and so we’d advise Facebook users to consider their privacy settings, make sure they’re only sharing information with people that they know and trust and to think carefully about how much personal information they want to make public.” |
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December 08, 2010
DataCell Threatens to Sue Visa for Stopping Wikileaks Payments
DataCell, the Icelandic online payment company that has kept the channels open to Wikileaks, threatened earlier today to sue VISA for stopping payments via DataCell to Wikileaks. According to Ólafur Sigurvinsson, the founder of DataCell, VISA contacted them today and is sending a team of negotiators to Iceland tomorrow to try to settle the case. VISA is stopping all payments via DataCell for 7 days while they are investigating if DataCell's operation is against the law.
According to Sigurvinsson, VISA is willing to pay DataCell high compensation rather than irritate the US government. "They are fully aware that they are violating our rights" says Sigurvinsson to the Icelandic news channel mbl.is. "I've got confirmed today that I am capable of supporting Al-Qaeda, Ku Klux Klan, buy weapons, drugs and all sorts of pornopraphy with a VISA card. But that's not being investigated. Instead I can not support a humanitarian organisation fighting for the freedom of speech."
On the DataCell website Andreas Fink, CEO of DataCell issued a statement yesterday saying:
"Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak freely without censorship and/or limitation. The right to freedom of speech is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law. Furthermore freedom of speech is recognized in European, inter-American and African regional human rights law.Following with another statement today
It is simply ridiculous to even think Wikileaks has done anything criminal. If Wikileaks is criminal, then CNN, and BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jaseira and many others would have to be considered criminals too as they publish the same informations. Nobody even tries to touch them though. You can still buy a New York times subscription and pay with your credit card I guess.
We have not even heard of the Wikileaks organisation being accused anywhere in the world for any crime. The conclusion is that it is only honorable to donate to Wikileaks as they fight for our human rights."
"Since yesterday around 22:30 CET Visa and Mastercard payments are being rejected on our donation system. We have received a suspension notice stating that Visa Europe has ordered our payment processor to suspend payments and undertake due diligence investigation in order to pretect the Visa brand ensure neither the payment processor nor Visa Europe is running legal risks by facilitating payments for the funding of the Wikileaks website. For the same reasons the payment processor has suspended the payments of Mastercard.I will keep you updated on the development.
The suspension period will be one week with effect from 8 December 2010 Danish local time. The suspension period may be prolonged.
DataCell ehf who facilitates those payments towards Wikileaks has decided to take up immediatelegal actions to make donations possible again. We can not believe Wikileaks would even create scratch at the brand name of Visa. The suspension of payments towards Wikileaks is a violation of the agreements with their customers. Visa users have explicitly expressed their will to send their donations to Wikileaks and Visa is not fulfilling this wish. It will probably hurt their brand much much more to block payments towards Wikileaks than to have them occur. Visa customers are contacting us in masses to confirm that they really donate and they are not happy about Visa rejecting them. It is obvious that Visa is under political pressure to close us down. We strongly believe a world class company such as Visa should not get involved by politics and just simply do their business where they are good at. Transferring money. They have no problem transferring money for other businesses such as gambling sites, pornography services and the like so why a donation to a Website which is holding up for human rights should be morally any worse than that is outside of my understanding.
Visa is hurting Wikileaks and DataCell ehf in high figures. Putting all payments on hold for 7 days or more is one thing but rejecting all further attempts to donate is making the donations impossible. This does clearly create massive financial losses to Wikileaks which seems to be the only purpose of this suspension. This is not about the brand of Visa, this is about politics and Visa should not be involved in this.
If you want to donate, use wiretransfers. And make sure your local Visa partner knows that it is your sincere wish to donate to Wikileaks using your Visa card. We will do our best in the meantime to support Wikileaks.
Andreas Fink
CEO
DataCell ehf"
Hjörtur Smárason
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UPDATE at 19:55 GMT: According to Sigurvinsson, donations are even greater now than before, but DataCell has been helping people to donate via direct wiretransfers.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/cloud-computing/3253419/wikileaks-returns-to-amazons-servers/
Wikileaks returns to Amazon's servers
Thanks to a Danish newspaper that purchased server space in Amazon's cloud centre
By Mads Elkær | Computerworld Denmark | Published 09:44, 14 December 10
Wikileaks is back on Amazon's servers, barely two weeks after the company said it would stop hosting Wikileaks in a move many suspect was a result of pressure from Western governments.
The turn-around came about when Danish newspaper Politiken chose to mirror content from the web whistleblower on its own website. For that, Politiken purchased server space in Amazon's cloud centre, which Wikileaks was thrown out of less than two weeks ago.
The turn-around came about when Danish newspaper Politiken chose to mirror content from the web whistleblower on its own website. For that, Politiken purchased server space in Amazon's cloud centre, which Wikileaks was thrown out of less than two weeks ago.
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"Our choice of Amazon came about by chance, although I can well see that it looks a little odd," Per Palmkvist Knudsen, CIO at media group JP/Politiken Hus, told Computerworld Denmark
The company chose to host the Wikileaks mirror on Amazon's European servers because it was the simplest option, said Knudsen.
"Amazon was fast and easy. But I can see that it would be a great story if we were expelled from Amazon's services again, although it's not intended," he said.
The IT director of JP/Politiken Hus has used Amazon's cloud services previously, but the Wikileaks mirror is the only Politiken service that runs at Amazon now.
"More generally, we test various cloud providers when there is a reason for it. We have previously used Amazon in some contexts, and we have experience with a number of other providers, so we are well prepared if we need to put a lot of services in the cloud," said Knudsen.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/spam-downloads-surge-wikileaks-supporters/
Security experts see surge in downloads of spam used to attack sites hostile to WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks supporters on Friday downloaded increasing amounts of the spam-shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile — a development that could challenge even Internet giants such as PayPal and Amazon.com during the crucial Christmas shopping season.
U.S. data security company Imperva says downloads of the attack program used to bombard websites with bogus requests for data have jumped to over 40,000, with thousands of new downloads reported overnight.
"It's definitely increasing," Imperva Web researcher Tal Be'ery said in a telephone interview from Israel.
The freely available software is a critical part of the campaign by "hacktivists" seeking to take revenge on sites they believe have betrayed WikiLeaks, the group that has outraged American officials by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables and military intelligence reports.
The cyberguerillas, who gather under the name Anonymous, have generally been successful in foiling their enemies. Attacks directed at the main pages of Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. succeeded in making them inaccessible, in MasterCard's case for several hours. Attacks on online payment company PayPal Inc. have periodically rendered part of its website inoperative. Moneybookers.com, another targeted site, was inaccessible Friday.
All four sites have severed their links to WikiLeaks, often citing suspected "terms of use" violations, hurting the group's ability to accept donations. The moves angered WikiLeaks supporters and alarmed free speech advocates, whom claim the companies are caving in to U.S. pressure to muzzle the controversial website.
WikiLeaks has been careful to distance itself from Anonymous, saying "we neither condemn nor applaud these attacks."
A press release circulated under the Anonymous name Friday said the group was acting "to raise awareness about WikiLeaks and the underhanded methods employed by the above companies to impair WikiLeaks' ability to function."
Imperva said Friday that it had monitored Anonymous supporters boasting about bringing in huge numbers of extra computers to back the attacks — something it said might challenge Amazon.com — another site that cut its ties to WikiLeaks — at one of the retailer's busiest times of the year.
But Be'ery stressed the boasts were unconfirmed, and the Anonymous statement said its members did not want to alienate the public by causing online havoc over the holidays.
"Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones would be in bad taste," the Anonymous release said.
Dutch police said Friday they were investigating whether hackers were responsible for taking down the websites of police and prosecutors in the Netherlands after the arrest of a 16-year-old suspected cybercriminal and alleged WikiLeaks supporter.
In Australia, WikiLeaks supporters held rallies Friday in Brisbane and in Sydney, where more than 500 people gathered outside Town Hall, some waving signs that read, "Hands off WikiLeaks, We deserve the truth," and "Don't shoot the messenger."
One man sealed his mouth shut with tape on which the words "NO LEAKS" was written.
Among the most recent newsworthy WikiLeaks revelations was a claim that drug maker Pfizer Inc. hired investigators to dig up dirt on Nigeria's former attorney general in a bid to stop action over a 1996 drug study, and that the U.S. considered taking military action against an arms-laden Ukrainian ship after it was hijacked by Somali pirates two years ago.
The U.S. Department of Justice, meanwhile is considering whether to charge those behind the leaks under the espionage act or other laws, while U.S. diplomats, deeply embarrassed by WikiLeaks' disclosures, have struggled to contain the fallout.
"The deplorable WikiLeaks disclosures put innocent lives at risk, and damage U.S. national security interests," U.S. Ambassador to London Louis Susman wrote in an editorial Friday in The Guardian newspaper. "There is nothing brave about sabotaging the peaceful relations between nations on which our common security depends."
The U.S. may soon be facing more than WikiLeaks as an opponent.
A former WikiLeaks spokesman plans to launch a rival website Monday called Openleaks that will help anonymous sources deliver sensitive material to public attention. Daniel Domscheit-Berg made the claim in a documentary by Swedish broadcaster SVT airing Sunday but obtained in advance by the AP.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remained in a U.K. jail ahead of a Dec. 14 hearing where he plans to fight Sweden's request to extradite him to face sex crimes allegations.
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Kristen Gelineau in Sydney, Michael Corder in The Hague and Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm contributed to this report.
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"There is no political motive or revenge behind having our Wikileaks mirroring running on Amazon's servers," he continued.
The company chose to host the Wikileaks mirror on Amazon's European servers because it was the simplest option, said Knudsen.
"Amazon was fast and easy. But I can see that it would be a great story if we were expelled from Amazon's services again, although it's not intended," he said.
The IT director of JP/Politiken Hus has used Amazon's cloud services previously, but the Wikileaks mirror is the only Politiken service that runs at Amazon now.
"More generally, we test various cloud providers when there is a reason for it. We have previously used Amazon in some contexts, and we have experience with a number of other providers, so we are well prepared if we need to put a lot of services in the cloud," said Knudsen.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/spam-downloads-surge-wikileaks-supporters/
WikiLeaks supporters download ‘Low Orbit Ion Cannon’ software en masse
Stumble This!Security experts see surge in downloads of spam used to attack sites hostile to WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks supporters on Friday downloaded increasing amounts of the spam-shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile — a development that could challenge even Internet giants such as PayPal and Amazon.com during the crucial Christmas shopping season.U.S. data security company Imperva says downloads of the attack program used to bombard websites with bogus requests for data have jumped to over 40,000, with thousands of new downloads reported overnight.
"It's definitely increasing," Imperva Web researcher Tal Be'ery said in a telephone interview from Israel.
The freely available software is a critical part of the campaign by "hacktivists" seeking to take revenge on sites they believe have betrayed WikiLeaks, the group that has outraged American officials by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables and military intelligence reports.
Users who download the software essentially volunteer their computers to be used as weapons that volley streams of electronic spam at targeted websites. The more computers, the greater the flow of data requests, and the better chances are of overwhelming the targeted website.
All four sites have severed their links to WikiLeaks, often citing suspected "terms of use" violations, hurting the group's ability to accept donations. The moves angered WikiLeaks supporters and alarmed free speech advocates, whom claim the companies are caving in to U.S. pressure to muzzle the controversial website.
WikiLeaks has been careful to distance itself from Anonymous, saying "we neither condemn nor applaud these attacks."
A press release circulated under the Anonymous name Friday said the group was acting "to raise awareness about WikiLeaks and the underhanded methods employed by the above companies to impair WikiLeaks' ability to function."
Imperva said Friday that it had monitored Anonymous supporters boasting about bringing in huge numbers of extra computers to back the attacks — something it said might challenge Amazon.com — another site that cut its ties to WikiLeaks — at one of the retailer's busiest times of the year.
But Be'ery stressed the boasts were unconfirmed, and the Anonymous statement said its members did not want to alienate the public by causing online havoc over the holidays.
"Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones would be in bad taste," the Anonymous release said.
Dutch police said Friday they were investigating whether hackers were responsible for taking down the websites of police and prosecutors in the Netherlands after the arrest of a 16-year-old suspected cybercriminal and alleged WikiLeaks supporter.
In Australia, WikiLeaks supporters held rallies Friday in Brisbane and in Sydney, where more than 500 people gathered outside Town Hall, some waving signs that read, "Hands off WikiLeaks, We deserve the truth," and "Don't shoot the messenger."
One man sealed his mouth shut with tape on which the words "NO LEAKS" was written.
Among the most recent newsworthy WikiLeaks revelations was a claim that drug maker Pfizer Inc. hired investigators to dig up dirt on Nigeria's former attorney general in a bid to stop action over a 1996 drug study, and that the U.S. considered taking military action against an arms-laden Ukrainian ship after it was hijacked by Somali pirates two years ago.
The U.S. Department of Justice, meanwhile is considering whether to charge those behind the leaks under the espionage act or other laws, while U.S. diplomats, deeply embarrassed by WikiLeaks' disclosures, have struggled to contain the fallout.
"The deplorable WikiLeaks disclosures put innocent lives at risk, and damage U.S. national security interests," U.S. Ambassador to London Louis Susman wrote in an editorial Friday in The Guardian newspaper. "There is nothing brave about sabotaging the peaceful relations between nations on which our common security depends."
The U.S. may soon be facing more than WikiLeaks as an opponent.
A former WikiLeaks spokesman plans to launch a rival website Monday called Openleaks that will help anonymous sources deliver sensitive material to public attention. Daniel Domscheit-Berg made the claim in a documentary by Swedish broadcaster SVT airing Sunday but obtained in advance by the AP.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remained in a U.K. jail ahead of a Dec. 14 hearing where he plans to fight Sweden's request to extradite him to face sex crimes allegations.
___
Kristen Gelineau in Sydney, Michael Corder in The Hague and Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm contributed to this report.
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Spam downloads surge among WikiLeaks supporters
Security experts see surge in downloads of spam used to attack sites hostile to WikiLeaks
RAPHAEL G. SATTER
AP News
AP News
Dec 10, 2010 11:08 EST
WikiLeaks supporters on Friday downloaded increasing amounts of the spam-shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile — a development that could challenge even Internet giants such as PayPal and Amazon.com during the crucial Christmas shopping season.
U.S. data security company Imperva says downloads of the attack program used to bombard websites with bogus requests for data have jumped to over 40,000, with thousands of new downloads reported overnight.
"It's definitely increasing," Imperva Web researcher Tal Be'ery said in a telephone interview from Israel.
The freely available software is a critical part of the campaign by "hacktivists" seeking to take revenge on sites they believe have betrayed WikiLeaks, the group that has outraged American officials by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables and military intelligence reports.
Users who download the software essentially volunteer their computers to be used as weapons that volley streams of electronic spam at targeted websites. The more computers, the greater the flow of data requests, and the better chances are of overwhelming the targeted website.
The cyberguerillas, who gather under the name Anonymous, have generally been successful in foiling their enemies. Attacks directed at the main pages of Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. succeeded in making them inaccessible, in MasterCard's case for several hours. Attacks on online payment company PayPal Inc. have periodically rendered part of its website inoperative. Moneybookers.com, another targeted site, was inaccessible Friday.
All four sites have severed their links to WikiLeaks, often citing suspected "terms of use" violations, hurting the group's ability to accept donations. The moves angered WikiLeaks supporters and alarmed free speech advocates, whom claim the companies are caving in to U.S. pressure to muzzle the controversial website.
WikiLeaks has been careful to distance itself from Anonymous, saying "we neither condemn nor applaud these attacks."
A press release circulated under the Anonymous name Friday said the group was acting "to raise awareness about WikiLeaks and the underhanded methods employed by the above companies to impair WikiLeaks' ability to function."
Imperva said Friday that it had monitored Anonymous supporters boasting about bringing in huge numbers of extra computers to back the attacks — something it said might challenge Amazon.com — another site that cut its ties to WikiLeaks — at one of the retailer's busiest times of the year.
But Be'ery stressed the boasts were unconfirmed, and the Anonymous statement said its members did not want to alienate the public by causing online havoc over the holidays.
"Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones would be in bad taste," the Anonymous release said.
Dutch police said Friday they were investigating whether hackers were responsible for taking down the websites of police and prosecutors in the Netherlands after the arrest of a 16-year-old suspected cybercriminal and alleged WikiLeaks supporter.
In Australia, WikiLeaks supporters held rallies Friday in Brisbane and in Sydney, where more than 500 people gathered outside Town Hall, some waving signs that read, "Hands off WikiLeaks, We deserve the truth," and "Don't shoot the messenger."
One man sealed his mouth shut with tape on which the words "NO LEAKS" was written.
Among the most recent newsworthy WikiLeaks revelations was a claim that drug maker Pfizer Inc. hired investigators to dig up dirt on Nigeria's former attorney general in a bid to stop action over a 1996 drug study, and that the U.S. considered taking military action against an arms-laden Ukrainian ship after it was hijacked by Somali pirates two years ago.
The U.S. Department of Justice, meanwhile is considering whether to charge those behind the leaks under the espionage act or other laws, while U.S. diplomats, deeply embarrassed by WikiLeaks' disclosures, have struggled to contain the fallout.
"The deplorable WikiLeaks disclosures put innocent lives at risk, and damage U.S. national security interests," U.S. Ambassador to London Louis Susman wrote in an editorial Friday in The Guardian newspaper. "There is nothing brave about sabotaging the peaceful relations between nations on which our common security depends."
The U.S. may soon be facing more than WikiLeaks as an opponent.
A former WikiLeaks spokesman plans to launch a rival website Monday called Openleaks that will help anonymous sources deliver sensitive material to public attention. Daniel Domscheit-Berg made the claim in a documentary by Swedish broadcaster SVT airing Sunday but obtained in advance by the AP.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remained in a U.K. jail ahead of a Dec. 14 hearing where he plans to fight Sweden's request to extradite him to face sex crimes allegations.
___
Kristen Gelineau in Sydney, Michael Corder in The Hague and Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm contributed to this report.
http://www.cio.com.au/mediareleases/11774/imperva-expands-executive-team-with-new-chief/
10 December 2010 14:00
"It's definitely increasing," Imperva Web researcher Tal Be'ery said in a telephone interview from Israel.
The freely available software is a critical part of the campaign by "hacktivists" seeking to take revenge on sites they believe have betrayed WikiLeaks, the group that has outraged American officials by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables and military intelligence reports.
Users who download the software essentially volunteer their computers to be used as weapons that volley streams of electronic spam at targeted websites. The more computers, the greater the flow of data requests, and the better chances are of overwhelming the targeted website.
The cyberguerillas, who gather under the name Anonymous, have generally been successful in foiling their enemies. Attacks directed at the main pages of Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. succeeded in making them inaccessible, in MasterCard's case for several hours. Attacks on online payment company PayPal Inc. have periodically rendered part of its website inoperative. Moneybookers.com, another targeted site, was inaccessible Friday.
All four sites have severed their links to WikiLeaks, often citing suspected "terms of use" violations, hurting the group's ability to accept donations. The moves angered WikiLeaks supporters and alarmed free speech advocates, whom claim the companies are caving in to U.S. pressure to muzzle the controversial website.
WikiLeaks has been careful to distance itself from Anonymous, saying "we neither condemn nor applaud these attacks."
A press release circulated under the Anonymous name Friday said the group was acting "to raise awareness about WikiLeaks and the underhanded methods employed by the above companies to impair WikiLeaks' ability to function."
Imperva said Friday that it had monitored Anonymous supporters boasting about bringing in huge numbers of extra computers to back the attacks — something it said might challenge Amazon.com — another site that cut its ties to WikiLeaks — at one of the retailer's busiest times of the year.
But Be'ery stressed the boasts were unconfirmed, and the Anonymous statement said its members did not want to alienate the public by causing online havoc over the holidays.
"Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones would be in bad taste," the Anonymous release said.
Dutch police said Friday they were investigating whether hackers were responsible for taking down the websites of police and prosecutors in the Netherlands after the arrest of a 16-year-old suspected cybercriminal and alleged WikiLeaks supporter.
In Australia, WikiLeaks supporters held rallies Friday in Brisbane and in Sydney, where more than 500 people gathered outside Town Hall, some waving signs that read, "Hands off WikiLeaks, We deserve the truth," and "Don't shoot the messenger."
One man sealed his mouth shut with tape on which the words "NO LEAKS" was written.
Among the most recent newsworthy WikiLeaks revelations was a claim that drug maker Pfizer Inc. hired investigators to dig up dirt on Nigeria's former attorney general in a bid to stop action over a 1996 drug study, and that the U.S. considered taking military action against an arms-laden Ukrainian ship after it was hijacked by Somali pirates two years ago.
The U.S. Department of Justice, meanwhile is considering whether to charge those behind the leaks under the espionage act or other laws, while U.S. diplomats, deeply embarrassed by WikiLeaks' disclosures, have struggled to contain the fallout.
"The deplorable WikiLeaks disclosures put innocent lives at risk, and damage U.S. national security interests," U.S. Ambassador to London Louis Susman wrote in an editorial Friday in The Guardian newspaper. "There is nothing brave about sabotaging the peaceful relations between nations on which our common security depends."
The U.S. may soon be facing more than WikiLeaks as an opponent.
A former WikiLeaks spokesman plans to launch a rival website Monday called Openleaks that will help anonymous sources deliver sensitive material to public attention. Daniel Domscheit-Berg made the claim in a documentary by Swedish broadcaster SVT airing Sunday but obtained in advance by the AP.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remained in a U.K. jail ahead of a Dec. 14 hearing where he plans to fight Sweden's request to extradite him to face sex crimes allegations.
___
Kristen Gelineau in Sydney, Michael Corder in The Hague and Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm contributed to this report.
http://www.cio.com.au/mediareleases/11774/imperva-expands-executive-team-with-new-chief/
Imperva expands executive team with new Chief Financial Officer
Also adds industry veteran General Counsel to senior management
SYDNEY, December 10, 2010. Imperva, the global leader in data security, has announced the appointment of industry veteran Terry Schmid as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. He will be responsible for overseeing all finance, accounting, HR, IT, facilities and legal functions.
The company also announced the addition of Scott Darling as the new Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. As such, Darling is responsible for managing and directing all of Imperva’s legal matters.
“We’re excited to have both Terry and Scott join the management team at Imperva,” said Imperva president and CEO Shlomo Kramer. “Their experience working with growing technology companies as well as large enterprise will be an asset to Imperva as we continue to expand our global footprint and increase our market share.”
Schmid brings more than 20 years of financial leadership to the company, including CFO roles in both public and private companies, as well as experience preparing companies for successful public offerings. Schmid joins Imperva from Coremetrics where he was CFO. Prior to Coremetrics, he was the EVP and CFO at Enterasys Networks where he helped return Enterasys to growth and profitability after it was taken private by a private equity firm in 2006.
Before Enterasys, Schmid was CFO at Turnstone Systems, a publicly traded telecommunications company. Schmid was also part of the founding team at ONI Systems, where he helped raise $125 million in venture investments and helped guide the company to a successful IPO.
Darling joins Imperva from Danger, Inc., and later as a senior attorney with Microsoft’s mobile communications business. Darling was responsible for all legal affairs at Danger, including Danger’s IPO filing and subsequent $500 million acquisition by Microsoft. Darling started his career as an associate at Gunderson Dettmer in Menlo Park, CA representing technology companies in intellectual property transactions, venture capital financings and general corporate matters.
“Imperva is led by a team of industry veterans with real insight on where the market is heading and tested technology expertise in data security,” said Schmid. “I’m excited to join such an accomplished group and look forward to working with them as we innovate new solutions and expand the company.”
Schmid holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a BA in Economics from the University of San Francisco. Darling holds a law degree from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree from Yale University.
About Imperva Imperva is the global leader in data security. With more than 1,300 direct customers and 25,000 cloud customers, Imperva's customers include leading enterprises, government organizations, and managed service providers who rely on Imperva to prevent sensitive data theft from hackers and insiders. The award-winning Imperva SecureSphere is the only solution that delivers full activity monitoring for databases, applications and file systems. For more information, visit www.imperva.com, follow us on Twitter or visit our blog.
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