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Yearly Archives: 2010
Happy Holidays!
Happy New Year everyone! Since I am about to take a few days off to spend with my family, I thought for this blog I would share some of my favorite holiday sites. For New Years Eve, I found this site that lets you view webcams from New Years celebrations around the world. My friend Read more…
Tags: holiday websites
Don’t Confuse ‘Anonymous’ With a Russian Gang
The recent WikiLeaks disclosure of more than 250,000 U.S. State Department diplomatic cables got people worked up. Running opposite much public opinion, the main WikiLeaks defender in the hacktivism field is the “Anonymous” group. After earlier engaging in various cyberdemonstrations against copyright-protection societies, Anonymous is now fully involved in a battle against WikiLeaks’ censors and Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Hacktivism
27th Chaos Communications Congress: Mobile Security and More
The 27th Chaos Communications Congress (27C3), a computer security conference held in Berlin, has offered several good mobile and embedded security talks in the past few days. SMS-based vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities in mobile phone radios, and laptop rootkits that infect peripheral chips instead of the main CPU were among some of the new research presented. Day 1 Read more…
Tags: Android, iphone, mobile devices and security threats, mobile security
Inside The Nigerian 419 Scam
The Nigerian 419 Scam is a form of advance-fee fraud, a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain. “419″ refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code that deals with fraud. Almost everyone has been targeted by this type Read more…
Cyberbullying Discussion: Talking to Your Teens
Talking to teens about cyberbullying is a different story. If you have a teen and haven’t already been discussing online safety, you should start. If my teens are any example of the “typical” teen, they already know everything there is to know about the Internet and don’t need me teaching them anything about online safety! Read more…
Tags: cyberbullying, how to talk to kids, how to talk to teens
Quantifying The Financial Impact Of Security Incidents
How much? It’s a simple question really, and one that I know the security professional often finds very difficult to answer when trying to justify mitigating risks to business. I mean what exactly is the financial impact of a virus outbreak? Or can you calculate how much the bottom line would be affected if that laptop Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Data Protection, enterprise
Wikileaks #SecChat: Lessons for the Enterprise on Hacktivism
Our inaugural #SecChat in November raised questions on securing PHI, while our December discussion turned to the buzz and security debate around the recent Wikileaks saga. The conversation was certainly heated, with 70 contributors tuning in for the chat and 466 tweets with the #SecChat hashtag. When it comes to Wikileaks, there’s a lot to Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, DLP, enterprise, Mid-Market, security, wikileaks
Dissecting Security Connected: 5 Ways to Get Hacked
During FOCUS10, we announced our Security Connected initiative as a way to get the enterprise one step ahead, breaking down the silos of security technology and processes. In January, we’ll dissect all the elements of Security Connected here on the blog. As an introduction to this series, we thought we’d remind you of the surefire Read more…
Tags: Data Protection, enterprise, Mid-Market, Network Security, Risk and Compliance, security, Security Connected
Hacking Wireless for Identity Theft
The ability to connect wirelessly has a lot to do with the indispensability of the Internet in our daily lives. Wireless Internet is available in our homes, offices, cafes, restaurants, parks, hotels, airports, cars, and even airplanes. The mobility factor allows us to work anytime, anywhere, on numerous devices. “Being connected” is at an all-time Read more…
Tags: Firesheep, identity theft expert, internet identity trading surveillance, mobile wireless internet security concerns, personal identity theft fraud, sniffing tools, unsecured unprotected wireless, unsecured unprotected wireless security risks, Wi-Fi WEP WAP protection breach
Making Sense of McAfee Risk Advisor
The second Tuesday of every month (“Patch Tuesday”) is a very busy day for information security warriors. They have to digest a flood of information from affected vendors (primarily Microsoft and Adobe) and then cross-check and correlate that against whatever their security vendors say. They have to take into account their actual environments, the assets and resources Read more…