April 20, 2012 - On April 16, we found a Pastebin entry selling the latest version of the infamous SpyEye botnet (Version 1.3.48) for a much lower price than we’ve seen elsewhere. (This botnet is mainly used to steal banking information.) The quote (continue reading...) Read more
April 20, 2012 - In my first post on styles of influence, I discussed rationalizing – a style characterized by a logical perspective that does not account for emotional or political considerations. Its utility is limited to circumstances were quantifiable and verifiable metrics (continue reading...) Read more
April 20, 2012 - As more and more businesses move towards virtualization, physical data centers are going the way of the Buffalo. Once a data center has been virtualized, an integral part of the network is moved from the physical island of computing resources (continue reading...) Read more
April 19, 2012 - Your mobile phone may arguably be your new best friend. There are few people, places, or things in our lives today that get as many hours of attention as your mobile phone or is with you as often (and for (continue reading...) Read more
April 18, 2012 - If your PC is bogged down with useless software and your desktop is jammed with icons and documents, then your PC is next to useless as a productivity tool. Even scarier is the increased likelihood that if you have lost (continue reading...) Read more
April 17, 2012 - Since March 20, the @Anonw0rmer Twitter account has been silent. Its owner, w0rmer, is known as a member of the CabinCr3w group, a hacker team linked to Anonymous. In early February, as (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Darkmegi was in the news a couple of months back; it was the first known threat to be delivered through the Microsoft vulnerability CVE-2012-0003 (MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability) exploitation. More recently Darkmegi has been seen in CVE-2011-3544 (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Last month, one of the biggest names in digital and mobile commerce, Global Payments, confirmed a significant security breach affecting 1.5 million credit card holders. Within days, Visa dropped the company from its list of PCI compliant providers. From (continue reading...) Read more
April 16, 2012 - Having just closed my first quarter as the global channels leader at McAfee, I couldn’t be more optimistic about the opportunities for mutual growth in the security market. Now is the ideal time to become a McAfee channel partner. The (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - Stolen phones are a big problem here in the US. Many are stolen in robberies. Robberies are, by definition, violent crimes, and there are many instances of robberies of mobile phones that resulted in serious injury or even death. TechNewsWorld (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - An employee of the Utah State Department of technology must have hit the snooze button when he launched a test server that resulted in the breach of 780,000 Medicaid records including over 250,000 Social Security numbers. The Governor of Utah (continue reading...) Read more
April 12, 2012 - Recent trends show that organizations large and small are flocking to the cloud in efforts to cut overhead costs and boost the energy efficiency of their data centers. According to a recent AMI-Partners study, more than 30% of SMBs (continue reading...) Read more
April 11, 2012 - I don’t know HOW often I hear these comments when I am out and about: “My son manages all our computers.” “My daughter sends my emails for me.” “My teenage son has installed our security software … and the parental controls.” (No joke!) So, (continue reading...) Read more
April 11, 2012 - It is with great satisfaction that I closed Q1 in EMEA. In fact we achieved a fantastic quarter! We signed a lot of new customers. We also signed innovative new deals with our existing customers. In addition to our Enterprise (continue reading...) Read more
April 11, 2012 - Smartphones now make up half of all activated mobile phones. And as we know, smartphones are small computers, capable of performing most of the same functions as a PC, primarily through the use of mobile applications. Some claim that mobile malware (continue reading...) Read more
April 9, 2012 - The internet brings a wide spectrum of benefits to the modern business. Connectivity has allowed the smallest firms to spread their message and products worldwide, creating unprecedented opportunity for just about anyone. The cloud revolution takes this connectivity to another (continue reading...) Read more
April 6, 2012 - As we kicked off our March #SecChat on critical infrastructure, the first question on many participants’ minds was one of definition: What makes an infrastructure critical in the first place? There seem to be countless general definitions for critical (continue reading...) Read more
April 5, 2012 - If you were hit by a bus, and passed on to whatever heaven might exist, would you care about your Facebook page? Probably not. But your loved ones more than likely would. Things like email, websites, and social media profiles (continue reading...) Read more
April 5, 2012 - Last week I discussed how information security is broken at the relationship level. This was illustrated by highlighting some challenging outcomes from the dysfunctional communications between security teams and their business customers. While several remediation strategies were posed, the (continue reading...) Read more
April 3, 2012 - I’m kicking off a series of blog posts over the coming weeks and months related to emerging markets. Look for countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, and South Africa to be discussed. Later, we’ll explore other countries including those (continue reading...) Read more