All in all it was a good year for SMB IT Security. It seems the problems keep coming and get more complicated, but a major theme seems to be materializing…greed. There was a time when most viruses and security issues were Pride related. Hackers from around the globe seeing what they can get away with […]

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Having an effective, up-to-date and well-documented backup and recovery strategy is a key component to minimizing the impact of data loss or compromise - whether it occurs from a disaster or not. Backup planning involves examining the needs and operations of your organization. Once you’ve determined your backup needs and how your backups will be stored, maintained and accessed, you need to think about recovery. What steps will you need to take in order to get your organization up and running quickly?

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Below I’ve provided a set of bulleted points to consider, covering each of the four types of organization involved in the ecosystem of cellular handset security.
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Ollie Whitehouse of Symantec has a great blog on the ecosystem of cellular handset security:
Platform Providers
• Prevention: The year is 2007, and while I have to […]

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Organizations are experiencing rising incident rates across the areas of security, availability, performance, and compliance, with significant impact to revenue, reputation, productivity, and cost. According to the Computer Security Institute and the FBI, per-incident costs of unauthorized access to information averaged over $85,000 in 2006, and system downtime costs reached tens of thousands of dollars […]

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…they just move to new mediums. Waaaay back in 1994, a computer virus hoax known as Good Times was passed around the Internet. While not the first computer virus hoax, it is probably one of…
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Great blog post by Marc Fossi of Symantec about old hoaxes getting new life. I blogged similarly […]

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Pump-and-dump stock, or penny stock, spam has been around for a long time. Most memorably it has the distinction of being the main deliverable of image spam. Regardless of the morphing or variations it is…
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This is a great little article by Kelly Conley of Symantec that talks about a current stock […]

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I was reading through my security software blog titles and came across an article by Brad Linder of downloadsquad talking about a shift in power in the anti virus giveaway game. I have been deeply entrenched int he security software world for over seven years now and it seems every year or so one of […]

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