Avecto, the windows privileged management company, has done some research and come up with something else we should be worried about - Loaphobia - or lack of application phobia. Are they having a laugh or is this something to add to our neuroses? In revealing the results of it...
The European Commission is planning a raft of new directives on data security that commentators say will come to be seen as an important turning point. Shaul Efraim Vice President of products, marketing and business development at Tufin Technologies says that the New 24-hour dat...
Trusteer this week discovered a series of attacks being carried out by a P2P variant of the Zeus platform against some of the internet’s leading online services and websites. The attacks are targeting users of Facebook, Google Mail, Hotmail and Yahoo – offering rebates and ne...
Commenting on the FBI’s warning to travellers who use wireless networks in hotels, after unsuspecting travellers caught malware bugs from wireless networks, Venafi said today that humans have become the weakest link in the digital defence chain.
PKI’s were catapulted into the spotlight recently following breaches at Comodo, Sony, and RSA Security. Should we be worried? Calum MacLeod, Venafi EMEA director, cautions on throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Commenting on unstructured data revelations in the latest GigaOM newswire, Varonis Systems says that the fact that Web crawlers are now scouring the many pages of the Web for data – and indexing that information – shows that companies need to treat their human generated content mor...
- Missed a promotion? You may be suffering from Loaphobia!
- New EU Data Directive will be a turning point for security says Tufin
- Trusteer reveals Zeus P2P Variant that Exploits Trusted Brands to Steal Debit Card Da...
- Venafi warns travellers using hotel wi-fi - encrypt or risk your data - after rash of...
- Can Public Key Infrastructure survive its public battering?
- Web crawlers building entire businesses out of other people's data warns Varonis
Channel 4 documentary uncovers illegal sale of private bank details, benefits claims and mobile phone records
Last night's Channel 4 Dispatches programme demonstrated that despite the Leveson enquiry Britain's army of private investigators are still peddling their dirty little trade as though there has been scandal...
Fake Android app marketplaces prove profitable for cybercriminals
Researchers at the AVAST antivirus labs in Prague have discovered a new batch of fake alternative marketplaces for downloading smartphone apps that trick users into sending premium rate SMS ...
SecureEnvoy says leaky clouds are down to poor security and authentication technologies
Commenting on research claiming to show that 53 per cent of senior IT professionals in the public and private sector believe that cloud computing is too insecure for their usage;...
Wick Hill ships encrypted McAfee ePO USB devices
Imation distributor Wick Hill is now shipping encrypted USB devices manageable by McAfee ePO. This follows the recent announcement that McAfee will move its Encrypted USB device business to a...
The Genesis of Privileged Identity Management - The Creation and Evolution of The Superuser
Philip Lieberman, President and CEO of Lieberman Software, gets seriously biblical and takes us back to the beginning of time itself to dig out the real truth behind the of...
Avecto says least-privilege care could have prevented Forex data breach
This week’s leak of thousands of admin and user credentials from a foreign exchange trading web portal onto Pastebin could have been averted industry insiders said. Data leaked included names...
Microsoft releases patch following Context warning of vulnerabilities in .NET
Microsoft this week released a patch for all available .NET frameworks to fix vulnerabilities identified by a researcher at Context Information Security. These vulnerabilities could allow malicious remote code from...