IT Security

Protection at All Costs

By Patrick J. Conte · October 2007

Coporate data must be tightly secured in a compliance-driven world

Ask any security officer what keeps him or her up at night, chances are having to deal with the fallout of a data breach will be high on the short list. If you scan headlines over the past year, you can see why—according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, since 2005, more than 165 million records from private companies, government organizations and universities containing sensitive personal information have been involved in security breaches.


Study: Attacks Designed To Steal Personal Information Increasing

October 26, 2007

Study: Attacks Designed To Steal Personal Information Increasing

Microsoft Corp. recently released research showing an acceleration in the number of security attacks designed to steal personal information or trick people into providing it through social engineering.


Study: 15 Percent Of Computers Have Active Spyware, Malware Infection

October 24, 2007

Prevx recently announced the results from checks for active spyware and malware on nearly 300,000 PCs during the last 30 days. The results show that of 290,647 PCs scanned a staggering 45,251 (15.6 percent) had one or more active spyware or malware infection.


Report: 95 Percent Of Global E-Mail Is Spam

October 22, 2007

Report: 95 Percent Of Global E-Mail Is Spam

Commtouch recently released its E-mail Threats Trend Report for the third quarter of 2007, based on the automated analysis of billions of e-mail messages weekly.


Company Joins DOD IT Team

October 22, 2007

SI International announced recently that it is a member of the KT Consulting team that has been awarded the IT Services, Program Support Services contract with DoD and WHS.


Survey: Cost Of IM, Greynet Security Incidents More Than Doubles In A Year

October 18, 2007

FaceTime Communications recently announced the results of its annual survey, "Greynets in the Enterprise: 3rd Annual Survey of Trends, Attitudes and Impact."


Texas Attorney General Honored For Fighting Cybercrime

October 17, 2007

McAfee Inc. recently presented the inaugural McAfee Cybercrime Fighter Award to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. The award, recognizing Abbott for his fight to protect Texas children from online predators, was presented during the McAfee Strategic Executive Security Summit in Dallas.


Report: 9 Out Of 10 Web Sites Have Serious Security Vulnerabilities

October 17, 2007

WhiteHat Security recently announced the availability of the third WhiteHat Web site Security Statistics Report. The report shows nine out of 10 Web sites have serious vulnerabilities that make the sites targets for malicious online attacks


Businesses Divided Over Who Poses Greatest Threat To Network Security

October 15, 2007

Sophos recently published the results of research into the types of user that businesses fear is most likely to expose networks to IT threats.


Experts: Terrorists, Organized Crime Turning To Credit Card Fraud

October 11, 2007

Experts: Terrorists, Organized Crime Turning To Credit Card Fraud

The consensus of speakers at the recently-concluded Real Security Summit is that the future of credit card payments depends on systems that remove useable card data stored anywhere at the merchant level.


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