Archive for July, 2009
2009 Verizon Business Risk Team Findings
Key Findings of the 2009 Verizon Business Risk Team Cybercrime Report
This year’s key findings both support last year’s conclusions and provide new insights. These include:
* Most data breaches investigated were caused by external sources. Seventy-four percent of breaches resulted from external sources, while 32 percent were linked to [...]
Twitter Security … or lack thereof
An interesting post on Twitter security is here. Twitter has had more than their fair share of security issues. Obviously this is tied to the explosion of popularity and use of Twitter.
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 [...]
New Classification / Type of Cyber Attack – Macking
Macking is the term coined by Kevin Prince, CTO at Perimeter eSecurity and Doug Howard, Chief Strategy Officer at Perimeter eSecurity and President of USA.Net (subsiderary of Perimeter). Kevin discusses it in his most recent blog post in conjuction with various scams currently happening using this attack method.
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 [...]