Protecting Your Email Address From Spammers

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on September 20, 2008

Here's a great video showing how you can protect your email address from email harvesting bots and spammers.

Filed in archive Information about , Security measures by Sue Walsh on September 8, 2008

If you think a firewall is just a nusiance and your antivirus software is enough, think again. There is more t worry about that you think. Check out this recent log from my router: Mon, 2008-09-08 ...

Lending Tree Sues Over Security Breach

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on May 2, 2008

Lending Tree has informed its customers that they may have had their personal information compromised in a security breach. Several former employees are believed to be responsible. The company believe...

Google Tech Talk

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on March 27, 2008

Here is a great video from Google's Tech Talk series. It's a discussion about building a safer web. With the emergence of Web 2.0. more and more people are relying on websites and web based ap...

Controlling Spam

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on March 11, 2008

Here is an interesting and informative video from the University of Washington Although it's a few years old I think it's still provides some good information, and an interesting comparison of...

Hackers Targeting Routers Next?

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on March 8, 2008

There is a great blog post on ZDNet about routers quite possibly being the next target for hackers. A "Router Hacking Challenge" was recently made, with the idea being to share attacks again...

Keep Your Bluetooth Off!

Filed in archive Security measures by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on March 1, 2008

Bluetooth is a very common feature on mobile phones today. Unfortunately, some implementations have flaws, making it possible for an unauthorized device to connect to your phone. This video demonstrat...

The Economics of Information Security

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on February 26, 2008

Here is another great video from DeepSec2007. This one is a talk about the Economics of Information Security. From the summary: The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and...

DDoS Attacks on the Rise

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on February 5, 2008

DDoS attacks are predicted to rise in 2008. These cyber attacks can disable websites, interrupt commerce and can take down entire commercial and government networks. Such high profile sites as Yahoo! ...

Botnet Source Code For Overachievers

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on February 2, 2008

This video is a companion to the video series I recently posted called "Malware Analysis: Botnets". This video examines botnet code line by line and examines how bot herders configure them-a...

GEMoney Announces Security Breach Affecting Over 600,000 Consumers

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on January 22, 2008

Credit issuer GE Money has announced that a computer tape containing the personal data of 650,000 customers of major retailers such as JC Penney is missing. The tape also contained the Social Security...

Oracle To Release 27 Security Fixes

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on January 13, 2008

Oracle plans to release 27 patches on Thursday. This includes 8 database patches, 6 server patches, and 7 e-business suite patches. Here is a list of products affected: oracle database 11g, version 1...

End Of Year Security Wrap Up for 2007

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on January 7, 2008

2007 was a banner year for cybercriminals. We saw them find more and more ways to get past spam filters and anti-virus software. PDF spam died out but MP3 spam rose. There was ransomware, increased ph...

McAfee Releases GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on December 21, 2007

McAfee has announced the release of GroupShield 7 For Microsoft Exchange. GroupShield provides threat protection and security management solutions including anti-virus and content security. It scans f...

Botnets-How They Work and What They Can Do

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on December 15, 2007

Botnets are big news these days, thanks to the Storm worm, this week's massive botnet attack, and other internet security issues. Users whose computers have been infected and joined to a botnet us...

Computer Security 101

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on December 9, 2007

Here's an interesting video from the Department of Justice about Computer Security. It's hosted by John Walsh, who you may of heard of via his show "America's Most Wanted". Altho...

Protecting Your Server From Rootkits

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on December 6, 2007

Here is a great video I found. It's from LiveSecurity's Malware Analysis series. This video talks about rootkits, what they do, and how to protect your server from someone using one. This vide...

Microsoft Antigen 9 SP1 Released

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on November 28, 2007

Microsoft has released the first service pack for MS Antigen. MS Antigen offers server level antivirus, anti-spam, and content filtering, and is part of the Microsoft Forefront Security product family...

Virtualization Comes to Messaging Security

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on November 28, 2007

More and more enterprises are seeing the benefits of server virtualization, and Proofpoint has introduced a new "virtual appliance" that offers anti-spam, secure messaging, data privacy and ...

"Man In The Browser" Attacks Increasing

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on November 26, 2007

A new generation of malicious code is being used in increasingly frequent attacks on banking sites. The technique is called "Man in the Browser" and involves Pharming, which is the practice ...

Kaspersky Security 6.0 For Exchange Server 2007 Beta Released

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on November 19, 2007

Kaspersky Lab has released a beta version of Kaspersky Security 6.0 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The software offers malware protection for mailboxes, public folders, and relayed emails on Exch...

Top 10 Internet Security Trends

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on November 17, 2007

The predictions for 2008's risk trends are out. Symantec says the number one risk for 2008 will be data breaches. Data breaches cost companies an average of $4.7 million per incident and that cost...

Merchants Urged to Reduce Risk of Data Breaches Removing Credit Card Data Seen as Key to Real Security

Filed in archive Security measures by Sue Walsh on October 13, 2007

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ - The consensus of speakers at the just-concluded Real Security Summit is that the future of credit card payments depends on systems that remove useable card data stored...

Hack in the Box does Malaysia!

Filed in archive Security measures by Ivy on June 16, 2007

If you're a computer security freak like some people I know (not pointing fingers!), you must have already booked your place at the Hack in the Box 2007 security conference, bought a pla...

Google is growing bigger than life

Filed in archive Security measures , Spam News by Ivy on May 29, 2007

It all started with search, than Gmail, along came Google Earth. Now you can meet people on Orkut, share your internet diary via Blogger, cheer yourself up with YouTube. You can't really surf the ...

Drive by downloads - from your flash drive

Filed in archive Security measures by Ivy on May 16, 2007

I really can't stress enough how easy flash drives have made my everyday life. No more burning CDs (which used to cost pretty much back than), or fiddling with the rewritable ones which not every ...