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Microcosm of a massive security problem

Blog Post by Jon Oltsik: A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation to a number of companies about the future of endpoint security. During this presentation, I had the opportunity to ask these folks a number of questions about their IT infrastructure and Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:43 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

OECD: Malicious Software (Malware): A Security Threat to the Internet Economy

Excerpt: This report, developed in collaboration with experts, aims to inform policy makers about malware impacts, growth and evolution, and countermeasures to combat malware. It seeks to analyze some of the main issues associated with malware and to Read More...
Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 11:40 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

Security is no match for chocolate and good looking women

A survey out today by the organizers of the tech-security conference Infosecurity Europe found that 21% of 576 London office workers stopped on the street were willing to share their computer passwords with a good looking woman holding a clipboard. People Read More...
Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 11:03 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

IC3's 2007 Internet Crime Report

The USA's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). Last week, the IC3 released its annual report for 2007. You can download a copy from here . From F-Secure: Malicious software Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:57 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Black Hat: Who patches security holes faster, Microsoft or Apple?

Apple's teasing commercials that imply its software is safer than Microsoft's may not quite match the facts, according to new research revealed at the Black Hat conference on Thursday. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology looked Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:21 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments

APWG Releases Phishing Activity Trends

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has just released their Phishing Activity Trends Report for the month of December. Overall, the report showed a decrease in activity from the previous month; however, there were a few notable exceptions. It appears Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:50 AM by chsecblo | 3 Comments

Study: Consumers Don't Use Anti-Phishing Defenses

"Across the globe, Windows Internet Explorer 7 has more than 100 million users seeing green," VeriSign said in a press release about Extended Validation SSL technology earlier this month. About 5,000 sites are using the new technology, which gives users Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:11 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft Forefront Client Security benchmark test (West Coast Lab)

Microsoft Corporation commissioned West Coast Labs (WCL) to carry out a series of performance benchmarking tests and metric-based process evaluations of the following products: Microsoft Forefront Client Security McAfee Active VirusScan with McAfee ePO Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:53 PM by chsecblo | 12 Comments

Europe still top source of spam

European spam networks have pumped out more unsolicited e-mail than those in the U.S. for the third month in a row, according to security vendor Symantec. Symantec called this a "significant shift" in spam trends as, historically, compromised U.S. computers Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:43 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Big trouble with teen hackers

Teenagers, including children as young as eleven and twelve years old, are increasingly becoming involved in serious cyber-criminal activity that exposes themselves and the users they target to a full range of dangerous repercussions. "Most have absolutely Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:35 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

One-fifth of Windows apps go unpatched

Updates are available, but users haven't installed them, says Secunia. One in five applications installed on Windows PCs are missing security patches, a Copenhagen-based vulnerability tracker has reported. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054502&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8 Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 29, 2007 7:15 PM by chsecblo | 2 Comments

Survey Finds that 54% of Wireless Users Steal Wi-Fi Access

Security firm Sophos reported that 54% of wireless users interviewed have admitted to using someone else's wireless Internet access. In a report, done by the firm on behalf of The Times, many Wi-Fi users fail to properly secure their wireless connection Read More...
Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 2:36 PM by chsecblo | 1 Comments
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