Security

NBA Fines And Non-Compliance Lessons for SMBs

Posted by on May 25, 2011 at 4:30 am

Regulations on the local, state and federal levels are on the rise and this is putting a lot of pressure on compliance efforts of Small and Medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and exposing the fact that these organizations can only avoid costly fines and/or lawsuits by maintaining strict compliance throughout their information management processes. I found the [...]

Breaching the Bastille: When Security Vendors Get Hacked

Posted by on May 14, 2011 at 10:17 am

The recent rash of exposures about successful attacks against information security vendors may come as no surprise to a lot of people in the information security world who probably see or hear about it frequently, but it will surely come as “shocking” to most “ordinary” folks. HBGary, RSA, Comodo and Barracuda Networks are the latest [...]

Beware The Ides of April: Web Indexing and Tax Data

Posted by on April 13, 2011 at 9:17 am

Tax season is in high gear and with it comes the need to be extra vigilant on how tax records are handled. After all, your tax records “has everything” that can be considered as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). PII refers to information that can be used to uniquely identify, contact, or locate a single person [...]

“Windows license locked”: Ransomware Targets Windows

Posted by on April 12, 2011 at 5:08 pm

“Windows license locked!” “This copy of Windows is locked. You may be a victim of fraud or there may be an internal system error” – malware message Mikko Hyppönen of F-Secure has warned of a new variant of what he calls “Ransomware” or ransom trojans. These are attacks by malware that takes a computer hostage [...]

WeR1 v Cyberlynk: Ethics and Danger in the Cloud

Posted by on April 5, 2011 at 4:07 pm

A recent lawsuit involving WeR1 World Network and CyberLynk Network brings up the issue of ethics, responsibility and danger in the much hyped “Cloud” storage utility that has been agressively pushed by most of the major vendors in recent times. The gist of the case is that a disgruntled employee of Cyberlynk managed to log [...]