As the worldwide use of Facebook continues to grow, more and more scams are appearing on the popular social networking website. Using promos, “interesting” links and all other sorts of strategies to trap you, a grain of salt is always needed when dealing with things outside of what Facebook offers.
As more and more people continue [...]
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Beware of Facebook Scams
January 16th, 2012 · No Comments · Security
Tags: Facebook·scams·Security·Social Networks
Cool Tool Friday: Shrew Soft VPN Client
January 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Security
Welcome to this week’s installment of Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware or software – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it if we [...]
Read the Fine Print to Avoid Spyware Pushed via Google Ads
January 12th, 2012 · No Comments · Security
Not every ad you are served by Google is good for you, warns Zscaler’s Julien Sobrier, after he spotted a suspicious looking ad for a free Flash Video player in his Google Reader.
By clicking on the link he was taken to the download page of the player, which repeats many times over that the offered [...]
Palo Alto Networks Positioned in Gartner’s Leaders Quadrant
December 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Firewalls, Security
In Gartner, Inc.’s recently released Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant. Palo Alto Networks entered the Magic Quadrant in 2010 in the Visionary Quadrant.
Gartner based its positioning on two major elements: the ability to execute and completeness of vision. In the 2011 report, Gartner positioned Palo [...]
Palo Alto Networks in Gartner’s Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls
December 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Firewalls, Security, Uncategorized
Santa Clara, Calif., December 15, 2011 – Palo Alto Networks, a leading provider of Enterprise Network Firewall solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls.
In its analysis, Gartner evaluated the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall (NGFW), based on its “ability [...]
Tags: Firewalls·Gartner·Networks·Palo Alto Networks·Security
Adobe Apps Riddled with Malware Vulnerabilities
December 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
From SECNAP Alerts:
Malware writers are continuing to exploit a high-profile zero-day flaw in Adobe Acrobat and Reader, using a spam attack to spread the remote code execution vulnerability in the wild. The attack arrives as an unsolicited financial report claiming to be from Barclay’s Capital. The attached PDF file launches the Reader and Acrobat attack, [...]
Nearly 20% of IT Pros Say Terminated Users Still Likely to Have Data Access
December 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
From SECNAP Alerts:
Many companies still fail to adequately manage user privileges and protect sensitive data, exposing them to the risks of data breaches, according to a Ponemon Institute study sponsored by Hewlett-Packard.
A survey of 5,500 IT professionals around the world found that more than half the organizations were still giving employees access to sensitive, confidential [...]
Tags: Data·data breach·Security
Cross-Site Scripting Flaws Plague Two-Thirds of Web Applications
December 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
Cross-site scripting flaws are the most prevalent vulnerabilities found in Web applications, posing a risk to data and intellectual property, according to a study of thousands of applications by Veracode–a company that specializes in finding vulnerabilities in code. Veracode analyzed more than 9,900 applications that were submitted to its cloud-based scanning service over the last [...]
Tags: data theft·flaws·Security
Cool Tool Friday: Password Corral
December 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Security
Welcome to this week’s installment of Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware or software – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it if we [...]
Tags: Cool Tool Friday·cool tools·Password Corral·Passwords·Security
New HTML 5 Presents Benefits, and Serious Challenges, for IT Security Pros
December 6th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
HTML 5 is being touted as an Adobe Flash replacement that displays audio, graphics and video more efficiently, but security experts studying the technology say it poses new challenges for enterprise security professionals.
James Lyne, senior technologist at UK security vendor Sophos, said potential HTML 5 security issues could result from the rapid adoption of the technology. If [...]
Cybercriminals Have Begun to Exploit Holiday Shopping Season
December 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
Security experts are warning of a rapidly mutating email spam campaign using bogus messages from United Parcel Service (UPS) claiming that a package could not be delivered. The spam run began earlier this month, and is just one way security researchers believe criminals will exploit the holiday season online buying spree.
According to Cloudmark engineering director [...]
Tags: cybercrime·data theft·Security
Cool Tool Friday: HijackThis
December 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Security
Welcome to this week’s installment of Cool Tool Friday! Each Friday we will feature a tool – hardware or software – that we’re using and think you might enjoy. Whether it increases productivity, helps with organization, provides a quick work-around for difficult networking situations, or is simply interesting and fun, we’ll share it if we [...]
Tags: Cool Tool Friday·cool tools·HijackThis·Security·Trend Micro
Researchers Discover Millions of Printers Vulnerable to Hacking
December 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Security
From SECNAP Alerts:
Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions that could cause it to catch fire? Or use a hijacked printer to commit identity theft, or even take control of entire networks that would otherwise be secure?
It’s not only possible, but likely, say researchers at Columbia University, [...]
Large Domain Name Provider Breached, Customer Data Possibly Compromised
November 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
From SECNAP Alerts:
101Domain.com appeared to suffer a security breach that “may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information.”
According to Webhosting.info, 101domain.com has about 10,000 domain names under management.
A message by 101Domain.com to its customers explains: “We need to make you aware of a security breach that may potentially have [...]
Tags: data breach·Hackers·Phishing·Security
The 25 Lamest Internet Passwords of 2011, and What to Do About Them
November 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Security
From SECNAP Alerts:
Protecting your online identity can be as easy as A-B-C, as long as you don’t make “abc123″ or “password” your Internet password!
It seems like an issue of common sense, but even as we head into 2012 and people are becoming more and more tech savvy, a lot of web users are clueless about [...]
AT&T Discloses Attempted Hack of Customer Records
November 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Security
AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. telephone company, has notified customers of an effort by hackers to collect online account information. “We recently detected an organized and systematic attempt to obtain information on a number of AT&T customer accounts, including yours,” AT&T said in an email to customers. “We do not believe that the perpetrators of [...]
Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits 1 Million Webpages, Was Preventable
October 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
From SECNAP Alerts:
A mass-injection attack similar to the highly publicized LizaMoon attacks this past spring has infected more than 1 million ASP.NET Web pages, researchers said today. According to database security experts, the SQL injection technique used in this attack depends on the same sloppy misconfiguration of website servers and back-end databases that led to [...]
Does your Company Have a Policy Covering Social Networking Sites at Work?
October 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
The use of social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin is exploding, with some using them even while in the workplace. While these sites offer work-related benefits such as fostering better workplace communication and collaboration, they also expose the organization to risks as well. Some of the risks borne out of social networks [...]
Managing Your Online Passwords
October 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Security
Having difficulty keeping track of all your online passwords? Here are some tools that may help you manage and make sense of the different passwords you have for your favorite social networking sites, blogs, phones, photos, games, documents, news, bank account, expenses, stores, books, and dozens of other services where a secure password is critical.
A [...]