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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

Outsource your code & you're more likely to be hacked

In a new report released by European information technology analysis group, Quocirca, organisations that admitted to being frequently hacked, all outsource at least some of their coding practice, with 90 percent outsourcing more than 40 percent! With Read More...
Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 12:13 PM 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

Don't blame 'stupid users' for data breaches

Security breaches that can be traced back to the actions of one individual are not the fault of one "stupid" employee but rather a failure to educate and engage the whole workforce around the importance of good security practice, according to a leading Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:26 PM 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

Linux Web servers broken into most often

Security portal Zone-H , which documents attacks on and defacements of Web pages, has compiled statistics about the attacks within the last year. Apparently, Linux servers were successfully defaced twice as often as Windows servers. Apache servers were Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:19 AM 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

Identity management critical for security, government IT shops say

A majority of government IT organizations say identity management is very important to securing their networks and will become even more so over the next five years, but that funding to keep pace is a major impediment to growth. The respondents also said Read More...
Posted Friday, March 07, 2008 10:14 AM by chsecblo | 0 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 | 6 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

Remote Workers Still Living Dangerously, Cisco Study Says

If it seems that -- despite your company's best efforts to educate users about security -- users are actually behaving less responsibly, don't panic. Your organization isn't the only one. In fact, Cisco Systems Inc. today is releasing the results of a Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:33 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 | 1 Comments
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