/// Tag Archives: vulnerabilities
Security Monitoring: Having Vision For The Future
January 25, 2012
Security attacks such as website hacking, security breaches and malware threats are all becoming increasingly common and sophisticated in design. The latest high-profile security breach...
Top 5 Considerations For HTML5
December 20, 2011
HTML5 seems to be everywhere at the minute, with many of those I would consider as software giants hinting that that HTML5 may be the...
Top 9 Cyber Security Trends For 2012
December 06, 2011
This blog post offers predictions for the top cyber security trends for 2012. The analysis is designed to help companies shield themselves from the threat...
Facebook Socialbots Threaten Social Media Security
November 17, 2011
A group of researchers recently demonstrated it is possible to steal personal information from Facebook by using “socialbots”, a type of computer programs that can...
My dog ate my iPad!
November 17, 2011
Today marks the launch of new independent research on the security risks of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) schemes. Entitled, ‘My dog ate my iPad...
Security has to evolve to combat the increase in attacks
September 22, 2011
Own the vulnerability; don’t blame the threat, is Gartner’s advice. Fingers have been pointed at China and Russia (amongst others) for some of the recent...
Why the consumerisation of IT is fuelling security fears
September 16, 2011
Research just released shows that almost two-thirds of IT professionals are concerned about security issues associated with the use of personal devices in the workplace...
Your data at risk: Employees will do whatever they need to be productive
August 24, 2011
As data breaches continue to dominate headlines in 2011 and expose major vulnerabilities in the way organisations share and manage sensitive information, companies worldwide are...
Web applications come under attack every 2 minutes
July 25, 2011
Results of a Web Application Attack Report (WAAR) reveal that web applications, on average, experience twenty seven attacks per hour, or roughly one attack every...
Security flaws are “manufactured” into Internet-enabled devices
July 18, 2011
“Kill switches” and backdoors inserted at the point of manufacture could act as a conduit for organised criminals or foreign states to access internet-enabled devices....
Is Amazon’s Kindle a threat to data security?
July 12, 2011
Data security is paramount and in earlier posts I have referred to the challenge to CIOs in securely permitting staff to access the corporate data...
Virtualisation dates back to 1960s
March 03, 2011
Despite all the media hype, virtualisation is actually not a new technology, and dates all the way back to the 1960s. Although it’s not a...
80 percent of Web browsers are unsecure
February 18, 2011
Wolfgang Kandeck, CEO of Qualys, said during a presentation at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco that 80 percent of browsers his company’s BrowserCheck...
The role of security within social networks
February 08, 2011
Last week researchers unveiled a “dating database” consisting of 250,000 users. This was not just any ordinary dating site where one registers to and agrees...
Let’s forget about security…
January 24, 2011
“Security” is really a lot to do with perception and point of view. Yesterday, preventing “whistle-blowing” was a compliance issue; today, post WikiLeaks, allowing whistle-blowing...
