As we know ‘security is a process’ - but what sort of process? In the good times it should be a process of continual improvement, punctuated by incidents and technology changes perhaps, but nevertheless with an underlying trend towards better corporate-wide security. Can this focus be effectively maintained during the bad times of a credit crunch and deepening global recession?
A new survey has shown that data leakage is the biggest headache for information security professionals.
It has emerged that French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the latest high profile victim of internet fraud.
One in seven online shoppers (14%) in the UK, and one in nine (11%) in the US, has fallen victim to identity theft. This contrasts sharply with the number in Germany (3%), Spain (5%) and France (6%).
Cyber-crime is now the fastest growing type of crime and, according to the US Treasury, has exceeded the profits of illicit drug sales. As a major element of this, we are seeing a shift from random individual hacker attacks to organized group cyber-crime that poses increasing threats to businesses and governments.
It is impossible to open an information technology magazine, and increasingly any business publication, without being confronted by the virtues of virtualization. It’s lean, it’s green, Dell and HP are giving it away with your machine.
The biggest threat to an organization’s data security occurs within a mainframe environment rather than through the use of mobile or removable media, with employee negligence being a major contributory factor.
About 10,000 users of LinkedIn.com, the social networking site for professionals, recently were targeted by a tailor-made scam that urged recipients to open a malicious file masquerading as a list of business contacts. Entire article: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/
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Shell Oil has revealed that the personal information of a small number of its employees has been obtained by an IT contractor who was working on-site at the company, and has been used to file fraudulent unemployment claims.
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