Gumblar: Back and Better than Ever
One of the great things about the Internet is that things can live on indefinitely. Unfortunately, that long life expectancy applies to malware, as well.
Dennis Fisher
About
Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
President Obama on National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
President Barack Obama discusses the pressing security issues facing the country, and the steps needed to address them as part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
How to Defeat Full-Disk Encryption in One Minute
Full-disk encryption is often heralded as a panacea to the huge problems of data breaches and laptop thefts, and with good reason. Making the data on a laptop or other device unreadable makes the machine far less attractive or valuable to a thief. However, researchers are showing that this solution has its share of weaknesses, too.
Andy Weeks, manager of risk and compliance for enterprise information security, at Humana Inc., one of the larger companies in the world, knows a thing or two about large-scale security implementations. And in a company whose customer data is one of its main assets, security is a corporate imperative. Discover the strategies that Weeks and Humana employ to keep the company ahead of the curve.Listen to the podcast:
In the first installment of a new regular series, Dennis Fisher talks with Bob Maley, the CSO of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, about the challenges of running an information security program in a government agency, the effects of the economy on his efforts and the ways in which user education can affect security in any organization. Listen to the podcast:
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The attackers behind the Zeus Trojan have unleashed a new phishing scam that is specifically targeted at users of the popular corporate webmail tool Outlook Web Access. The phishing emails include the recipient’s actual email address and appear to be an update to the OWA application.
Botnets have become a major problem in the last few years, with massive networks such as Storm, Nugache and others comprising hundreds of thousands of infected machines. This video lays out the foundation of the problem and explains the efforts of researchers to take over the Torpig botnet.
The parade of large-scale data losses is continuing unabated. The latest incident involves an unencrypted Flash drive containing the personal information of more than 100,000 adult education students in Virginia.
Antispam vendors, browser makers and Internet service providers have been on the front lines in the battle to contain phishing attacks, but the cybercriminals behind phishing campaigns are getting savvy at defeating technologies and tricking victims into giving up their credentials and other data. Read the full story [SearchSecurity.com].
On the same day that Microsoft unleashed a torrent of 34 patches on its customer base, Adobe on Tuesday published patches for 29 vulnerabilities in its Acrobat and Reader products as part of its new quarterly patch release program.
