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This article just reiterates the point, once again, that companies need to be more proactive in their security: A new wave of mass SQL injection attacks seen in mid-August to hit over half a million websites, including parts of Apple’s site serves as a weighty reminder of the growing prevalence of mass injections and of SQL [...] What is penetration testing? Although still an evolving concept, penetration testing is becoming more common and more critical for organizations housing confidential data. What is penetration testing? Departing employees and data theft Gone are the days when employees kept rolodexes on their desks. According to the How Much Information? study conducted by the University of California Berkeley, 92% of all new information in 2002 was stored electronically. This percentage appears [...] The St. Louis chapter of ISACA will present on proactive forensics during its 2010-2011 kick-off meeting on September 15th. Click below for details. Beyond Reactive: Leverage Forensics to Increase Security and Auditability: As network environments get larger, faster, and more complex, they become more difficult to secure. With numerous applications, users, and systems interacting, and a staggering [...] Companies need to protect themselves both inside and out. According to a report by Verizon and the Secret Service, summarized in the article below, while external parties still pose the largest threat, 48 percent of security breaches originated from within the organization. Organized cyber-criminals and malicious insiders were responsible for most corporate data breaches in 2009, [...] This article comes from a company focused on providing news, training and education in the areas of information security, risk mitigation and fraud. Their source is the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit that tracks this issue. There have been 41 data breaches involving financial institutions so far in 2010 – well on the [...] This article provides a good summary of how corporations can be targeted by cyber criminals. liveForensics can help address some of these issues. Is your company’s data under surveillance by foreign spybots looking for any competitive advantages or weaknesses they can exploit? This might sound farfetched, but such electronic espionage is real. It’s an insidious security [...] Data breaches are costing companies millions each year, according to the studies cited in the following article. Organizations are getting hit by at least one successful attack per week, and the annualized cost to their bottom lines from the attacks ranged from $1 million to $53 million per year, according to a newly published benchmark study [...] An important ruling that could affect our industry: A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday ruled that it’s not a criminal act to violate the Terms of Service of a Web site, a decision hailed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The case, Facebook v. Power Ventures, arose because Power offered software that allowed users to aggregate Facebook [...] In Andrew’s words: “Awesome, now we can image both the smart phone and the thermostat for an investigation. Time to update those forensic procedures.” Two days ago I wrote about a thermostat you can adjust from your phone, and today Allure Energy announced another twist on the idea. The company connects your thermostat to [...] |
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September 3rd, 2010 by lhaas
