...the results from the annual "Human Factor in Laptop Encryption" study performed by Absolute Software and the Ponemon Institute reveal some very interesting metrics about the use/adoption of encryption software and the risk posed to businesses from the loss of unencrypted media.
If you choose believe the writings of Mandiant, you’re under the impression that “Chinese hackers are hellbent on taking over every large corporation in the United States.” If you choose to follow the writings of McAfee[2], you’re under the impression that “Chinese hackers only wanted Google’s secret sauce” – their source code. If you choose to follow Damballa’s writings[3], the attackers who penetrated Google are amateur script kiddies. Take your pick, there is no lack of speculation.
Brian Krebs reveals that Fiserv, a “Fortune 500 company that provides bank transaction processing services and software to more than 16,000 clients worldwide,” is urging customers not to use the most updated version of Adobe Reader...
Apple Stock: iPad Business More Valuable Than Mac Desktops - We estimate that Apple’s iPad business accounts for 4% of the $267 Trefis price estimate for Apple’s stock compared to about 3% for Apple’s Mac desktop business…
Today’s Malware Strategy and Tactics are advanced and sophisticated. The main purpose for that is to trick antiviruses. Some are using encryption to make the detection difficult for any security software product, other add an AutoRuns to the registry entries to defend itself against anti-malware software or just adding a line to the host file to prevent the antivirus from updating their definition...
Scammers have been devising ways to ride on someone else's coattails since the dawn of time. With every new technology they find another way to make money from nothing. Today I am going to highlight a method that involves Twitter, Yahoo!, and Google AdSense.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announces the official approval of the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification program as a new baseline skills requirement for U.S.cyber defenders. Specifically, the new Certified Ethical Hacker program is required for the DoD's computer network ...
The FTC sending a warning to 100 companies and agencies that their employees are leaking client and sensitive data on the web via Peer to Peer file sharing (P2P) is the single most pathetic and embarrassing communication to come across the desk of an IT professional. It’s over, Johnny IT’S OVER…
Has someone been putting strange substances in the drinking water at Gartner’s Greenwich, CT headquarters? Some of their analysts are beginning to sound like New Age gurus on a mission to bring peace, love and harmony to the corporate world. Consider these words of wisdom recently imparted by Gartner analysts to clients at an Orlando conference…
Trefis Analysis: Notebook PCs 17% of Dell’s Stock on February 25, 2010 Dell shipped an additional 1.2 million notebook PCs in 2009 over 2008. We expect growth in the global notebook market to drive Dell’s notebooks sales in the future…