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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.

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.

Exploitable IE6 Still Top Browser Used

in 2001, Microsoft released Internet Explorer version 6. 5 years later the released version 7 and just recently the released version 8. While there are now two newer FREE versions, as well as many other FREE products from other vendors, the majority of systems still use IE6. Some of the major milestones [...]

Breach Severity

From the latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report it states “In contrast to the decrease in total disclosures, vulnerabilities rated as High severity increased 13% with respect to the second half of 2007, with roughly 48% of all vulnerabilities receiving a rating of High severity. This is still a 28% decline from the first half of [...]

Botnet Growth Worldwide

Several organizations monitor the growth of compromised systems and botnet growth. According to McAfee “Cybercriminals have taken control of almost 12 million new IP addresses in Q1 2009, a 50 percent increase over the previous quarter. The United States is now home to the largest percentage of botnet-infected computers, hosting 18 percent of all [...]

Would your employees sell out?

According to a new survey of 600 people, one third of employees would sell company secrets for compensation. The amount of compensation needed varied based on who was spoken to. This survey was done by the same people who famously got usernames and passwords from people in exchange for a chocolate bar last [...]

FBI & US Marshals Malware Infection

Here is the text from an article posted by the SANS institute…
“GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS AND HOMELAND SECURITY –Malware Infects Computers at US Marshals Service and FBI (May 21, 2009) Part of the computer system at the US Marshals Service was shut down Thursday morning after malware was detected. The decision was made to shut down Internet [...]

Lost or stolen laptop incur $50,000 loss

In a recent study by the Ponemon Insitute (see article) found that losing a laptop costs a firm on average $49,246 dollars after accounting for data loss, intellectual property, replacement, lost work time and legal expenses. Executives that lost laptops cost organizations about half that while managers who lost a laptop cost the company about [...]

Financial Data Breach Sources

Some good analysis from a post on Perimeter.
“In the study we just released on financial institution data breaches between 200 and 2008 we analyze the breach sources.
Hacking accounts for 42 percent of incidents but 55 percent of records compromised. This is the largest percent of incidents and records which is why financial [...]

Record Breaking Malware Growth

According to the latest report by F-Secure, malware has had explosive growth during the last half of 2008 with trends continuing into 2009.

The report sites that 2007 doubled over the previous 2006 records, and 2008 more than tripled the 2007 numbers in total malware instances found. The database with signature based definitions [...]