All Entries in the "News" Category
Globalizing the Fight Against a Hostile Internet
Original Article
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 [...]
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.
—————–
Perimeter E-Security Exposes Top Ten Biggest Security Breaches and Blunders of 2009
MILFORD, Conn., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Perimeter [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
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. [...]
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.
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 [...]