October 10, 2008
New Mobile Phone Security System
By Alan Harten
Far from becoming more secure over the last few years, mobile voice communications have become more open to “tapping” by dubious individuals trying to gather all kinds of personal and business information.
All kinds of information of a highly sensitive nature is passed by voice conversations on mobile devices without any concern.
The same people making [...]
October 9, 2008
Free “two-factor” Password System
By Alan Harten
National Identity Fraud Prevention Week is running this week and amongst other issues is trying to point out to the public and business the dangers of using a single password.
According to government figures around £1bn per year is spirited away in various identity theft scams. On top of that laptops can cause other serious data [...]
October 9, 2008
GSS says Oracle’s Cloud Computing move needs to be viewed with caution
By GSS
Global Secure Systems (GSS),a leading security consultancy, says that Oracle’s decision - announced at its World Forum last week - to license its technology for use in cloud computing environments, shows that the future of corporate IT is changing.
“Oracle’s decision to license its 11g database, its middleware and management tools, starting with the Amazon’s Elastic [...]
October 9, 2008
GSS says BBC email list leak highlights dangers of mailing lists
By GSS
Global Secure Systems (GSS), a leading security consultancy, says this week’s revelations that a BBC mailing list had been hacked and the users on the list spammed with scams and/or computer viruses, highlights the dangers that spam poses to modern companies.
“Whilst it’s likely that many of the people who signed up to this list were [...]
October 8, 2008
Poisoning of DNS Caching Gets worse
By Alan Harten
IP authentication specialists are warning of a large scale increase in the use of poisoned DNS caches by cyber-criminals.
Back in July, the Computer Emergency Response Team issued a notice warning of yet another threat to internet security.
This new pain in the computer user’s posterior fools people into giving up passwords and other personal details. [...]
October 7, 2008
UK Firms Different Storage Needs Than Germans French
By Alan Harten
According to a study from Iron Mountain off site record storage is a system mostly preferred by UK companies rather than their European counterparts.
Over 42% of British companies prefer to keep physical records off site, compared with German companies 11% and the French at 29%.
Of those companies that keep records within reach, the main [...]
October 6, 2008
Companies unaware of criminal data theft
By ISACA
In a podcast interview released today on www.infosecurityadvisor.com, Peter Wood member of the ISACA Conference Committee and founder of First Base Technologies reveals the ease with which criminals are able to steal data and gives 3 critical steps organisations can take to block them.
Wood reveals how he and a colleague walked unchallenged into an [...]
October 6, 2008
GSS says Oracle’s Cloud Computing move needs to be viewed with caution
By GSS
Global Secure Systems (GSS) says that Oracle’s decision - announced at its World Forum last week - to license its technology for use in cloud computing environments, shows that the future of corporate IT is changing.
“Oracle’s decision to license its 11g database, its middleware and management tools, starting with the Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), [...]
October 6, 2008
Over 60% of companies rate consolidation as main objective for Virtualisation
By Storage Expo
Recent research carried out by Storage Expo on 362 companies found that the main objective for implementing virtualisation was sever consolidation ( 62%) closely followed by new management capabilities (30%). A small percent (6%) rated availability as an objective while only 2% had no plans to implement virtualisation.
According to Natalie Booth, Event Manager for Storage [...]
October 6, 2008
ISACA reveals COBIT security secrets at Gartner Summit
By ISACA
Roger Southgate, from ISACA, an association serving more than 86,000 IT governance professionals from 160 countries - will deliver a workshop on the subject of COBIT and Val IT for the Security professional at the Gartner Security Summit in London this Wednesday.
Given against the backdrop of regular data losses and breaches being reported in [...]
October 6, 2008
Finjan gains new European patent for malware protection
By Brian Turner
Finjan today announced that the European Patent Office has granted the company Patent No. EP 0 965 094 B1 entitled “System and Method for Protecting a Computer and a Network from Hostile Downloadables”.
This patent further adds to Finjan’s extensive and comprehensive intellectual property portfolio in the security market.
Features of the patent include techniques to [...]
October 3, 2008
Veracode Wins Wall Street Journal Technology Award
By Alan Harten
The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Award has been handed to application security testing company Veracode.
The WSJ gives its tech awards to companies or individuals in the medicine, software, the Internet, wireless and consumer electronics industries.
The awards are made for innovation; in Veracode’s case for its applications that scan binary code looking for vulnerabilities [...]
October 3, 2008
Walk In Data Attacks Biggest Company Security Threat
By Alan Harten
It’s hard to believe that all the highly educated and over-paid executives at major corporations would not be able to spot the tell-tale signs of large mounds of freshly dug earth, located on the grass just outside their corporate headquarters.
But apparently not, as many companies are failing totally to spot the presence of moles in [...]
October 2, 2008
Vodafone Wants to Manage Company Mobile Devices
By Alan Harten
A quarter of all users of company-owned mobile devices regard the equipment as their personal property.
15% download unauthorised elements to the unit and 10% change settings.
20% of IT managers say that they have experienced security problems as a direct result of these kinds of violations.
Once out of the office users simply do not [...]
October 2, 2008
Qualys Launches PCI 3.0 With Web App Scanning
By Alan Harten
At the Gartner IT Security Summit in London yesterday, Qualys launched its new version of the highly successful QualysGuard, the PCI 3.0.
This new variant has an integrated Web Application Scanning (WAS) module.
The previous versions are the most widely used on-demand scanning application utilised for PCI compliance implementation.
The new feature will properly prove to [...]
September 29, 2008
A New Website Gets An Infection Every 5 Seconds
By Alan Harten
According to IT security company Sophos over 380,000 new webpages have some kind of infection.
More worrying is that this is in just the last three weeks.
They say that 90% of these pages have problems caused by hacking techniques such as SQL Injection.
The company is promoting its solution, WebAlert, that warns site owners if their [...]
September 26, 2008
Public Have No Mercy Over Personal Data Loss
By Alan Harten
Symantec Corp and Moneysupermarket.com, the online price comparison site, have conducted a survey that reveals that no less than 80% of the British public don’t trust companies to hold their personal details securely.
Not only that, 89% feel that repeated security leaks or plain reckless disregard of customer data should be a criminal offence with jail [...]
September 26, 2008
SPIT anti-SPAM For VoIP
By Alan Harten
SPIT is the unfortunate acronym for Spam over Internet Telephony, a relatively new addition to the world of unwanted male enhancement creams and millionaire making schemes from Africa.
Most spam arrives by email but increasingly spam is being generated in VoIP communications, and the more VoIP grows, the more attention it gets from “We need you [...]
September 25, 2008
Fortify views Adobe crackers’ approach on Clickjacking as positive
By Storage Expo
Fortify Software, the application vulnerability specialist, says that an informal agreement by the software cracking community to temporarily cease open discussion of the Adobe Clickjacking flaw is a positive move for the IT security industry.
“All responsible security research organisations - ourselves included - will always give the vendor time to respond before discussing the issue, [...]
September 25, 2008
Fortify Software welcomes IBM’s latest diversification
By Storage Expo
Fortify Software sees IBM’s late entry into the static analysis marketplace as a limited step in the right direction.
Fortify notes that IT research firm Dataquest reports Fortify’s revenue led the entire application security testing market, including IBM’s dynamic testing product line.
“Competition is always good for the industry, but it’s the customer that makes the final [...]