/// Archive for: Security
Top 4 IT Trends To Master In 2012
Last year saw some of the biggest security breaches to date, and some large organisations feeling the heat. Anonymous and LulzSec made their presence known,...
Building A Business Case For Identity Management
Before you embark on gaining budget and approval for any IT project, it’s critical that you clearly and precisely articulate its business value. At a...
Password Amnesia Takes A Grip
Third party research has revealed the use of multiple passwords is posing a security risk to individuals and businesses alike. The One Poll study, which...
What’s Missing From DLP?
In most organisations today, there is sensitive data that is overexposed and vulnerable to misuse or theft, leaving IT in an ongoing race to prevent...
USB Flash Drives: Will We Ever Learn?
Recently various news stories came out relating to the loss of an un-encrypted USB flash drive. The USB flash drive was owned by an employee...
Government Doesn’t Have A Clue How To Combat Cybercrime
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for...
Passware’s Software Underscores Need For FireWire Protection
Got an hour to spare? Computer forensics firm Passware claimed recently that its latest software toolkit cracks Apple’s FileVault full-disk encryption (FDE) platform in less...
USB Sticks Continue To Give IT Managers Headaches
The old security chestnut of lost USB sticks is back in the news again, with reports of a stick containing a safety assessment of a...
What Does Your IP Address Say About You?
This Valentine’s Day, the Serious Organised Crime Agency in the UK took control of a domain that had previously been used to distribute copyrighted material,...
Non-Microsoft Software Is Responsible For Growth In Vulnerabilities
A report from Secunia concludes that cybercriminals are effectively outdistancing IT admins when it comes to software patching and security. But the battle is far...
Let’s Talk About The F-Word
Fraud in the UK has increased seven-fold since 2003 and doubled last year, costing the country £2 billion (FraudTrack). Experts predict that it will get...
Could High Profile Data Losses Be A Thing Of The Past?
Over the past year a number of organisations have suffered high profile data losses, leading to hefty fines and considerable damage to their reputation. With...
Nortel Chinese Hack Is A Wake-Up Call To Telecoms Security
Hackers – probably from China – have been quietly spying on Nortel’s platforms for almost a decade, if an article in the Wall Street Journal...
The Scary New Hacking Trend
Starting with Operation Aurora – the brazen 2009 cyber attacks on Google and other large enterprises – through to the recent high-profile data breach that...
Is Antivirus Software Powerless To Stop Data Breaches?
A report from Trustwave claims that antivirus (AV) software is powerless to stop data breaches. I say the study’s conclusion is similar to that of...
