Last time I described how many people have much more of their private information available on the web than they realise. No-one, except the most security aware, links their social activities with ‘security common sense’. Even IT security professionals admit to revealing too much information through social networking and other online sites.
The recent attacks in Mumbai were carried out by assailants using high tech methods. It’s just another way in which technology can be used not only for good but for evil as well. According to a washingtonpost.com article, “Gunmen Used Technology as A Tactical Tool”, not only did the attackers use blackberries, multiple cellphones with switchable SIM cards, and Google Earth maps, but they made use of GPS equipment to navigate waterways and pinpoint their targets. Read the whole story on http://blogs.computerworld.com/high_tech_attacks_need_high_tech_response_0
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Despite Microsoft issuing an emergency patch against a Windows vulnerabilty, there are reports of a fresh wave of attacks seeking to exploit it.
The computer systems at three major London hospitals are back online, three days after the Mytob computer virus forced staff to disconnect the network.
A massive swath of some 65,536 unique Internet addresses that appear to have been swiped from early Internet pioneers by a convicted spammer has been reclaimed by Internet regulators htttp://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/network_identity_theft_avenged.html
“It will never happen to us” – this is typically the response from many IT security managers, when the subject of Cyber Insurance is raised. However, we are seeing on a regular basis companies suffer from both data privacy breaches and system failures, which result in tarnished reputations and unexpected costs that are hitting the corporate balance sheet.
An IT manager who logged onto to his former employer’s computer network five months after being fired and opened the e-mail server up to spammers has been sentenced to one year in prison. Read all the article on http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/110408-it-worker-let-spammers-into.html and see how EventManager helps you spot malicious activity on your network in real time: http://www.exaprotect.com/products/eventmanager/
Massive distributed denial-of-service attacks against ISPs and their customers doubled in intensity over the past year, according to a new survey. Distributed DoS attacks are now reaching 42Gbps in sustained intensity, up from 24Gbps last year and just 17Gbps the year prior to that, according to Arbor Networks‘ annual survey of ISPs from North America, Europe and Asia. “This attack size is the largest we’ve ever seen,” says Arbor CTO Rob Malan. All the article http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111108-arbor.html?tc=sec
While Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) security may not be the highest priority for many IT security professionals or network administrators, experts are warning that the threat to VoIP communications is increasing. Read the whole article on http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1338762,00.html
In a previous blog we reviewed some of the key security control issues and concerns arising out of recent research undertaken by KPMG’s for their Data Loss barometer. We’ll now take a look at who the main victims of data loss are, and the industry sectors they’re most likely to work in.
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