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Ask your Question!In the same week that Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell warned Congress that terrorists are showing an increasing desire to use cyber attacks against the U.S., the Bush administration sent a proposed budget to federal lawmakers that calls for the government to spend one out of every 10 IT dollars on information security.
In total, […]
IBM is embarking on a massive rollout of desktop and laptop encryption, providing 355,000 employees with whole-disk encryption to keep data confidential.
Although IBM already uses encryption in pockets of its organization, particularly with Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions encryption in Lotus Notes, the rollout of whole-disk encryption marks Big Blue’s biggest-ever commitment to encryption with […]
Massachusetts recently became the 39th state to enact a data security breach notification law to deal with security breaches of personal information of Massachusetts residents.
In the law, “Personal information” is broadly defined to include a Massachusetts resident’s first and last name or first initial and last name in combination with any one or more of […]
Over 216 million records containing personal and financial information were involved in security breaches announced from January 2005 to November 2007, according to the Privacy Rights Clearing House in its A Chronology of Data Breaches. November 21, 2007.
Over the past several years, governments have taken action to assist victims and require organizations to comply with […]
Got Antivirus? If you have a computer, the answer is probably yes. Viruses are growing exponentially, so the manufacturers have to be on their toes if they want to keep systems protected. It used to be as simple as analyzing your email and hard drive to look for viruses - not anymore!Lets take a look […]
What is Sears thinking? Take a look at a recent tracking software that comes with joining an sears online community. The proxy:
1. Monitors and transmits a copy of all Internet traffic going from and coming to the compromised system.
2. Monitors secure sessions (websites beginning with ‘https’), which may include shopping or banking sites.
3. Records […]
A recent worm distributed through the Web 2.0 social network orkut points out the potential IT security risks presented by social media in an age where the number of Generation Y workers is increasing rapidly.
orkut is a social networking site with about 67 million registered users who can sign in with any Google account. Earlier […]
As a result of a security flaw in Google’s popular GMail, UK Graphic Designer David Airey reports the details of his victimization when his GMail account was hijacked.
Because of a security flaw, which Google has since corrected but which may still exist in a GMail user’s mail filters, Airey figured out that he visited […]
In his article Apples for the Army, Andy Greenberg, over at Forbes.com takes a look at how the Army is trying to increase its usage of Apple computers as a step the Army feels will improve the security of its IT systems. A division chief in the Army’s office of enterprise information systems says the […]
A recent post over on McAfee’s blog talks about the sneaky ways once again being used to defeat the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) challenge-response mechanism that generates distorted characters, text, or pictures to prevent automated systems from registering for accounts or otherwise abusing whatever amenities the CAPTCHA […]
