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Top Two Web Attack Methods of 2007

In early October 2007, StopBadware.org, an initiative developed to combat malware-what it calls badware-released its analysis of current online threats. Among its key findings was the identification of the two top methods for compromising Web sites in 2007: iframe and JavaScript exploits.

More Than Passwords: Five Rules to Ward off Wireless Pests

College students do it. Coffee shop customers do it, too. Your neighbors in the business park are probably doing it right now. Many computer users search for an available wireless network to tap into-whether at the mall, at school, home, or work-and whether they have permission to use that network or not. Knowingly or unknowingly, these wireless parasites may be doing more than swiping a signal. When they connect, they can open up your network-and all the computers on it-to an array of security breaches.

Strength in Numbers: Five Security Options for Virtualization

hen vendors speak of virtualized security services, they recite a common list of advantages available to customers through simply collapsing physical infrastructure: IT simplification, asset and inventory control, physical consolidation. The more thoughtful data center vendors can discuss the advantages of standardization and the simplification that virtualization can have on provisioning and supporting new services. But security concerns should also be taken into account. What follows are five options that CTOs and IT managers should consider when virtualizing business-critical appliances and applications like security services.

Set the Agenda: Forums on Emerging IT Security Risks

A series of forums for identifying and assessing emerging and future IT security risks will be held throughout Europe in 2008 by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). The agency invites interested parties to apply to participate in the forums to steer the discussion as to which risks need the most attention and give input on how best to deal with them.

Alert: Valentine E-Card Carries Storm Worm ‘Virus’

With St. Valentine's Day here, you and your IT staff and users should be aware of unexpectedly receiving electronic greeting cards. Be careful, they may not be from secret admirers, but instead could contain Storm Worm malware. These spam spreading Storm Worm malware-incorrectly known as a virus in some quarters-direct recipients to click on links to retrieve these e-cards. Once users click on the links, malware is downloaded to their Internet-connected devices, infecting and making them part of the Storm Worm botnet of compromised machines.

How Many Customers Avoid the Web Because of Security?

In early February 2008, Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, released statistics showing that one in eight adults do not use electronic commerce because of concerns over Internet security and virus attacks. The data was collected from the 2006 and 2007 surveys on Information and Communication Technologies usage in households and by individuals in the European Union (EU).

Seven Tips for a Successful Mobile Data Security Rollout

New research shows that almost half of people would take useful information and data with them to their next jobs. Based on a June 2007 Check Point Software survey, it is unlikely that anyone would stop them as three-quarters of companies have no security in place to prevent information going out the door. Eighty-five percent of employees admitted that they could easily download competitive information and take it with them to their next jobs, in spite of 74 percent of these companies having a policy that specifically states that company personnel are not allowed to take company information out of the office. These findings come out of a survey by Check Point into "staff and data security" carried out among 200 senior IT professionals in Europe.

The Truth About Authentication: Six Factors Evaluated

The effect of the Internet since 2001 has fundamentally changed the way we access business systems. The network security perimeter has crumbled at all levels while the number of users needing network access has grown. The geographical location of users has also increased to where they may not only be in a different department or company branch office but also anywhere in the world.