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Are social media platforms the Jurassic Park of computing?
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Kevin Prince is chief technology officer of Perimeter E-Security.
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Social Networks have grown out of control. Literally. Today, neither users nor social networking companies can control the monsters they have created. Think Jurassic Park: where John Hammond wanted to build something no one else had ever done, a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Most of the Top 100 Websites have hosted malicious content in the last 6 months
According to Websense more than half (61 percent) of the top 100 websites in the last 6 months have hosted malware (malicious software) or malicious hidden redirection links. These breaches of heavily used sites is the weapon of choice by cyber criminals.
The True Cost of a Data Security Breach: The Heartland Case Study
While not enough information has been released to know the full measure of the Heartland data breach, bits and pieces have come and and we can begin to understand the impact to a company that has a serious data security breach. Kevin Prince of Perimeter eSecurity touched on this subject in a series of [...]
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.