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Featured Reports
Users Still Careless With Email
April 25, 2011
Company employees still consistently send confidential and sensitive information via email in violation of rules and regulations, according to a survey by VaporStream.
So What If iPhones Spy User Locations
April 21, 2011
The iPhone keeps track on its owner's whereabouts, but without that crucial location data, many services that help make the smartphone so popular wouldn't function.
Iranian Official Claims Siemens Partially Responsible For Stuxnet
April 19, 2011
The Iranian military has accused German electronics and industrial engineering firm Siemens of taking part in the development of the Stuxnet worm.
Researchers Aim To Stop Android Data Leaks
April 14, 2011
Security capabilities shouldn't need to be bolted onto the mobile operating system, but unfortunately we're headed down the same painful path with smartphones and tablets that we took with desktops and notebooks.
Application Security: Much More Than Secure Development Frameworks
April 11, 2011
If your organization is considering putting a secure application development initiative in place, you need to look beyond all of the technicalities and dig into the organizational challenges first.
Dept. Of Education Proffers New Privacy Rules
April 10, 2011
The U.S. Department of Education has proposed a number of new initiatives aimed to better safeguard student privacy.
Microsoft’s Massive April Patch Tuesday
April 07, 2011
Many security teams may wish it was March once again. Last month Microsoft issued patches for just four vulnerabilities within three security bulletins.
NSA Investigating Nasdaq Hack
March 31, 2011
Last month when we covered the attack on the Nasdaq's Directors Desk collaboration platform, we said the incident posed plenty of questions, while the Nasdaq proffered (at least publicly) few answers. It seems the National Security Agency agrees.
(Slightly) More Organizations Proactively Managing Security Efforts
March 30, 2011
Security vendor survey at the RSA Conference 2011 shows more organizations planning and coordinating their security efforts across security and IT operations teams and risk management groups. But don't plan on a party and fireworks celebration just yet - the improvements are minor.
"Trusted" Sites Fail To Clean Malvertising Scourge
March 27, 2011
Reports indicate that users of Facebook and the European music service, Spotify, have been exposed recently to malvertising attacks.
Shocker! (Not Really): Users Apathetic When It Comes To Mobile Security
March 26, 2011
Survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute shows just how lax users really are when it comes to securing their smartphone devices.
Are Industrial Control Systems The New Windows XP
March 24, 2011
Earlier this week a security researcher posted nearly three dozen vulnerabilities in industrial control system software to a widely read security mailing list. The move has Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems (SCADA) system operators scrambling, and the US CERT issuing warnings.
RSA Breach Leaves Customers Bracing For Worst
March 18, 2011
RSA, the information security division of EMC Corp., disclosed in an open letter from RSA chief Art Coviello that the company was breached in what it calls an "extremely sophisticated attack." Some information about its security products was stolen. Customers are bracing for more details.
Trojan Attacks Remain Most Popular
March 16, 2011
Anti-malware vendor Panda Security's PandaLabs has found that the number of threats . . . surprise, surprise . . . have risen significantly year over year. What's interesting is how large a percentage of attacks Trojans have become.
NERC Creates Cyber Assessment Task Force
March 12, 2011
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) recently announced the formation of a Cyber Attack Task Force. The task force will be charged with identifying the potential impact of a coordinated cyber attack on the reliability of the bulk power system.
Botnet Threat: More Visibility Needed
March 11, 2011
According to a report released by The European Network and Information Security Agency the current ways botnets are measured are lacking - and it just may be hurting the fight against the zombie plague.
Watch Where You Swipe
March 10, 2011
We tend to focus attention toward online data and identity theft and forget that we can be targeted just as easily offline.
Sophisticated Trojan Targets Some Banking Sites
February 28, 2011
S21sec, a Spanish information security firm, claims to have spotted a new Trojan with advanced infiltration and attack techniques.
New Mac OS X Backdoor Trojan Surfaces
February 27, 2011
Researchers at anti-virus firm Sophos say they've identified a new Trojan designed to infect Mac OS X users.
Security Departments Stretched Too Thin, Firefighting
February 24, 2011
While application vulnerabilities, mobile computing, and malware top the list of IT security vulnerabilities and threats, a just released survey from ISC2 and Frost & Sullivan reveals an underlying, more systemic threat.
Researchers: SSD Drives Pose Data Sanitation Risk
February 22, 2011
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego are warning that traditional methods to clear data from hard drives may not work as well on Solid State Disks.
Security Coming To Mobile And Embedded Devices
February 21, 2011
Security firm McAfee expects 50 billion mobile and connected embedded devices by the year 2020. And guess who is promoting new tools promising to protect them. But is this a layer of protection we are going to need?
Hacks From China Strike Canadian Government
February 20, 2011
CBC is reporting that attacks from IP addresses based in China have managed to successfully breach networks within the Finance and the Treasury Board of Canada, as well as Defence Research and Development Canada. The attack is the latest in a string of attacks aimed at high level government agencies.
Cyberwar: Experts Have Hard Time Defining It, Let Alone Defending Against It
February 17, 2011
Rather than wait for a catastrophic event, government and private industry should develop a framework for dealing with state sponsored attacks aimed at the critical infrastructure.
Successful Security: It Is In The Details
February 15, 2011
Security is both hard to do right, and easy to make the simple mistakes that could jeopardize the security of most any organization. It may be a mistake that comprises of being a single digit off. And that one number could be the difference between a secure network and one that is readily breached. That was the overriding message in a Security B-Sides Conference presentation given today by Mike Lloyd, chief scientist at security software maker Red Seal Systems.