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By Editor on January 17, 2010  |  Comments 0

Top 10 Information Security Threats of 2010

Each year Kevin Prince, CTO at Perimeter E-Security writes a paper regarding what he feels are the top threats for the coming year. Over the past several years, his papers have not only been insightful, but spot on in nearly everything he has predicted. Perimeter just released the 2010 version and can be [...]

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By Editor on January 13, 2010  |  Comments 0

Google Announcement on China

Google made a significant announcement on their blog recently. The blog post is at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html. It has to do with Google potentially pulling out of China altogether. It states that Google is no longer willing to filter results and they appear willing to close up shop in China. According to the [...]

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By Editor on December 22, 2009  |  Comments 0

The yin and yang of cybersecurity

The yin and yang of cybersecurity
December 21, 2009 10:00 AM
Howard (right) and Prince (below) say online peace can only come when corporations achieve “cyberbalance.” Photos: Perimeter
On the Internet, the good guys and the bad guys are inextricably connected. But what happens when one side gets the upper hand?
By Doug Howard, chief strategy officer, and [...]

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By Editor on November 24, 2009  |  Comments 0

2009 Breaches and Blunders

Kevin Prince, CTO of Perimeter eSecurity recently released a paper on the top 2009 breaches and blunders. See the full article here. There is also lots of talk about it on Twitter. See here.
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Perimeter E-Security Exposes Top Ten Biggest Security Breaches and Blunders of 2009
MILFORD, Conn., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Perimeter [...]

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By Editor on September 24, 2009  |  Comments 0

Objectional Sites = Malicious Content

Website with “objectionable content” (e.g. sex, adult content, gambling, drugs) are often times infected with malicious software and links to sites that attempt to exploit end users systems. According to Websense,
50 percent of web pages linked to web sites categorized as “sex” also served malicious content.
69 percent of all web pages with [...]

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Globalizing the Fight Against a Hostile Internet

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During my visit to Moscow last week, Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky waxed poetically about the need for a global law enforcement agency to police the Internet against criminals and hackers. In his estimation, the Internet never will be free of threats so long as hackers are able to launch attacks against international [...]

December 20, 2009 | Editor | Comments 0
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Email Security

According to Websense (State of Internet Security Q1 & Q2 2009), 87.7 percent of email messages were spam during the first half of 2009. While I have seen the percentage by other vendors be higher, it does represent a 3 percent increase over the previous 6 months (again according to Websense).
85.6 percent [...]

October 27, 2009 | Editor | Comments 0
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Purity 12 Scam or Legit?

Purity 12 Company and Product Review
Purity 12 represents a whole new generation of network marketing company. What should people look for when selecting a network marketing (other wise known as multi-level marketing company)? It is pretty simple but important. There needs to be a solid company with big money backing it. Purity 12 is just [...]

October 24, 2009 | Editor | Comments 0
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Blogs littered with malware

According to Websense Security Labs in their “State of the Internet” report, 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and messaage boards are spam or malicious.

September 22, 2009 | Editor | Comments 0
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77 Percent of websites with malware are legitimate sites

77 Percent of websites with malware are legitimate sites

If a website has malicious software (malware) on it, there is a 77 percent chance that the site is a legitimate site that has been compromised according to Websense. In other words, when a cyber criminal injects malware on a website, nearly 4 our of 5 cases do it on a legitimate website. [...]

September 19, 2009 | Editor | Comments 0
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233 Percent Growth in Malware sites in the last 6 months

According to Websense Security Labs, there has been a 233 percent growth in the number of malicious web sites in the last six months. They also note a 671 percent growth during the last year.

September 17, 2009 | Editor | Comments 0
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Credit Union Penetration Test Malware Scam

Here is a recent scam reported by the NCUA and others. It uses a shipped CD to financial institutions with instructions to load them. The CD’s and letter are supposidly from the NCUA, but are not. See the following article on it as posted.
Malware-Infected CD Mailing was Part of Pen Test
By Dennis [...]

August 28, 2009 | Editor | Comments 0
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Quaresso – Web Security Solution

I recently had the opportunity to review the web application security offering by Quaresso (www.quaresso.com). There is a flash presentation as well as a PDF that explains how the service works quite well.
Essentially the software controls the end user browser better forcing better security as well as removing any sensitive information such [...]

August 16, 2009 | Editor | Comments 1
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Sophos

For years I have been waiting for a “all-in-one” desktop security suite that includes things like anti-virus, anti-malware, intrusion detection and prevention, firewall, disk encryption, mobile device protection, and application protection. Well I think I may have found it with Sophos. I spoke to Richard Jacobs their CTO the other day and got [...]

July 03, 2009 | Editor | Comments 2
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Who is hacking your network?

I found a great article that I reposted here as I believe it has a lot of really good information…
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Are Russian, Chinese or America cybercriminals targeting your data? PC Plus goes in search of cybercrime’s dark heart.
New York, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Timbuktu – if a hacker is determined to empty your bank account, they can [...]

July 01, 2009 | Editor | Comments 0
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