Cloud-based services are here to stay. Cloud services are even more attractive for companies who are being hit with the high cost of meeting compliance requirements – especially for small and mid-size companies that have shrinking or no information security budget. In Trusted Data Assurance in the Cloud, author and information security expert Felix Santos [...]
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‘Bad Neighborhoods’ On the Internet Are a Real Nuisance
Of the 42,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) surveyed, just 20 were found to be responsible for nearly half of all the internet addresses that send spam. That just is one of the striking results of an extensive study by the University of Twente’s Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT). This study focused on “Bad [...]
Security Protocol for Online Banking and Facebook Has ‘serious Weaknesses,’ Say Researchers
The protocol that provides security for online banking, credit card data and Facebook has major weaknesses, according to researchers at Royal Holloway University. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is used by millions of people on a daily basis. It provides security for online banking, as well as for credit card data when shopping on [...]
Researchers Work to Counter Spear Phishing Attacks
The email resembled the organization’s own employee e-newsletter and asked recipients to visit a website to confirm that they wanted to continue receiving the newsletter. Another email carried an attachment it said contained the marketing plan the recipient had requested at a recent conference. A third email bearing a colleague’s name suggested a useful website [...]
Cell Phone Financial Identity Theft
While the cell phone is an amazingly useful device, using it for banking — and consumers are increasingly using mobile phones as banking tools — can lead to identity theft and other financial crimes, if reasonable precautions aren’t taken. “Anyone who has access to your cell phone has access to your identity in a few [...]
‘Control-Alt-Hack’ Game Lets Players Try Their Hand at Computer Security
Do you have what it takes to be an ethical hacker? Can you step into the shoes of a professional paid to outsmart supposedly locked-down systems? Players assume the roles of characters with their own special skills. Game play involves completing missions by rolling the dice, using skills and occasionally pulling something out of a [...]
Reflections On HP In 2012: “Learning From Contrast” by Oliver Rochford
Oliver Rochford is a Senior Security Consultant and Security Architect at HP Enterprise Security Services in Germany. He is an an expert in Vulnerability Assessment, Vulnerability and Threat Management, Cybercrime and Information Security. Here Oliver is our guest blogger and has provided some insight into his new role at HP and how he views the [...]
What is Your Digital Grid?
As consumers of digital technology do you not get the sense that the pace of change is increasing and impacting us with little time to sit back, watch, take things in, and try to make sense of it all. Nowadays digital devices and digital environments tend to suddenly show up almost invisible to our awareness [...]
No Privacy, please!
We are in a world were our communication, information , search, entertainment, creation, and content are done with some form of digital device with access to the internet. This dynamic intricately tied to our personal and professional lives : privacy both online and offline is being transformed. Some of this is within our control and [...]
Assessing Pentagon Performance On Information Security From some Ex-Hacker’s POV
Ever since there’s been data storage devices, there’s been guys trying to plant pieces of code on them to steal data or wreak havoc. Twenty-five or more years ago, we were constantly losing data because of worms, viruses and crooks and faulty or stolen floppy disks. Recently we’ve seen how SecureID’s used extensively for on [...]
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