Data Security Archive
Monday, August 10, 2009 11:37 AM/EST
New research from Proofpoint shows that enterprises are increasingly dealing with data leaks on blogs, social networks and media sharing sites - and they are not taking it lightly. Many organizations are cracking down on employees for breaking data security policies surrounding blogs, Facebook and other Web 2.0 technology.
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Data Security
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:52 PM/EST
The newly approved Consensus Audit Guidelines are a nice first step, but fall far short of the mark, according to one emerging government security watchdog.
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NIST
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:45 AM/EST
All the ethical hacking and vulnerability management rock stars are ready to go in Vegas at Black Hat.
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Ethical hacking
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:37 AM/EST
Fast flux botnet control techniques continue to prove effective as registrars have not sufficiently stepped-up their efforts to choke it out, according to Team Cymru.
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Botnets
Friday, July 17, 2009 7:30 AM/EST
Security researchers are pointing to a recent SMS spam-bred attack as evidence that malware gangs may have finally begun attempting to launch botnets that target mobile devices.
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Mobile malware
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:06 AM/EST
The Sinowal Trojan is back in not-so-heavy rotation backed by an angle on Twitter data saved in users' browsers.
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Twitter
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:44 AM/EST
The Social Security Administration says people shouldn't panic - recent research from Carnegie Mellon University does not mean identity thieves have a foolproof way of guessing your social security information.
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Identity Theft
Monday, July 06, 2009 10:55 PM/EST
Waledac seems to rear its head primarily for the holidays, including a recent appearance for the 4th of July.
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Botnets
Monday, July 06, 2009 9:15 PM/EST
In another example of insider threats, the FBI nabbed a former software designer for Goldman Sachs and is accusing him of downloading proprietary software and sending the data to a Web server in Germany.
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Corporate espionage
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:34 AM/EST
Data theft is at the center of the malware torrent and will continue to be so for the forseeable future, Trend Micro reports.
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Virus and Spyware
