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• Cloud Based Vulnerability Management

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP Vulnerability and Compliance Management as Software as a Service (SaaS) are springing up like mushrooms. The SaaS model enabled companies which focused on vulnerability management to extend their reach, and offer the services to more and more potential clients. ...
  2 days ago

• Forgotten Security: Patching and Updating

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst The fourth guide in our ‘Forgotten Security’ series, Forgotten Security: Keeping up to date , is targeted at IT teams, encouraging them to take another look at their procedures, ensuring that they cover both software and equipment. A fully updated system ...
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• Why There Will Be No Year Of The Cloud

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Dwayne Melancon , Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development I recently got an email talking about “the year of the cloud.” I call shenanigans. You see, I remember back in the olden days (back in the 1980’s) when magazines and industry luminaries would regularly declare each year to be ...
  3 days ago

• Anti-Money Laundering for Crime and Terror

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Michael O’Connor, President of IronClad Consulting Historically, to facilitate money laundering criminals opened a legitimate business as a cover, and then used the business account to deposit and legitimize large sums of money. Large deposits into accounts were routinely overlooked by banking ...
  3 days ago

• PCI Council Advice on Threat Management

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com Security professionals intuitively think proactively. Our job  is to predict and prevent what the bad guy will do next. My job specifically is to instill this mindset into you, the consumer,  SMB or large corporate ...
  4 days ago

• Clearing the Cloud Part II | A Ray of Sunshine On A Cloudy Day || Cloud Computing Security (1)

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 145
  In the first in this series of "Clearing the Cloud" columns, I explored the dangers of jumping to read more
  5 days ago

• Report: China Probing Soft Cyber Underbelly

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Tom Groenfeldt , Technology Journalist - Contributor at CIOZone Chinese cyber attacks against the U.S. government and American corporations are increasing sharply, according to a recent study by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission . Established by Congress in 2000, the commission ...
  6 days ago

• Exploring the Social Media Security Quandary

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Mike Meikle , CEO at Hawkthorne Group Social Media (Web 2.0) is on everyone’s lips these days. A million gurus have sprung up nearly overnight to cash in on the phenomena. Social Media has been promoted as the next big trend in productivity enhancement and a key to opening the coffers of ...
  6 days ago

• 10 Holiday Tips For Secure Online Shopping

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com UK officials shut down an amazing 1200 online retailers who scammed millions from unsuspecting shoppers. Most of the sites originated from identity thieves in Asia who tricked victims into believing they were legitimate ...
  1 week ago

• Open Source Software Design Spurs Growth

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Semyon Dukach , Author and Angel Investor You have to be a little nuts to try to start a new business, considering that most attempts fail after consuming the savings of the entrepreneur’s family. But to start a new non-profit you must be downright insane, in the way of young idealists hopelessly in love, ...
  1 week ago

• TSA Breach is a Nightmare for Holiday Travel

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  Laura Wilson, JD, CISA , Corporate Liability Editor This week’s revelation that the Transportation Safety Administration exposed its rules for airport security screening online is outrageous. As holiday travel ramps up, the possibilities and repercussions are horrifying. Coupled with the huge ...
  1 week ago

• Shared Threat Monitoring Protects Enterprise

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Michael O’Connor, President of IronClad Consulting Recently, as detailed by Anthony Freed of Information-Security-Resources.com , Larry Clinton of the Internet Security Alliance presented information to Congress regarding security and protecting privacy in cyberspace. First of all, it is encouraging ...
  1 week ago

• Signature Authorization is Stupid Security

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Ever forge your husband’s signature? Wife’s? Parent’s? Client’s? Do you think the clerk behind the counter at Walmart is skilled in handwriting analysis? I’ve always viewed a signature as a totally ridiculous form of authentication and a total waste of ...
  1 week ago

• Massive TSA Security Breach Revealed

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By BRIAN ROSS and MATT HOSFORD of ABC News Online posting reveals a “how to” for terrorists to fool airport security. In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) inadvertently posted online its entire airport screening procedures manual, including some of the ...
  1 week ago

• Cyber Liability Insurance Mitigates Exposure

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Laton McCartney , Editor at CIOZone Four or five years ago, insurance carriers selling cyber-liability insurance had difficulty giving the product away. “CIOs weren’t interested,” Drew Bartkiewicz, vice president of cyber and new media risk at The Hartford ( HIG ), tells CIOZone. “They’d ...
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• Vietnam Tops November Spam Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst Today’s news that a New Zealand national has been ordered to pay $15.5 million US dollars in fines due to his participation in an international spam network , highlights the seriousness with which authorities are starting to take malware production. But it ...
  1 week ago

• GenApple Boasts First Information Brokerage

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP After the first article was posted at GenApple - which promotes itself as the first information brokerage, Shortinfosec secured an interview with the founder of GenApple - Mr. Mark Hanson. In a summary, the service will need polishing, and GenApple will need ...
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• Holiday Temps Increase Identity Theft Risks

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert This is the absolute best time of the year to be a dishonest temporary worker. Holiday hustle and bustle overwhelms managers and supervisors and they can’t possibly see everything their employees are doing. It has been said that only 10 percent of ...
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• Ten Most Damaging Data Breaches of 2009

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Laton McCartney , Editor at CIOZone Every week for the past four years the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearing House (PRCH), an organization dedicated to empowering consumers and protecting privacy, has been chronicling data breaches on a weekly basis. These range from small, regional breaches, ...
  2 weeks ago

• MIT: Reality Mining Protects Your Identity

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 471
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Identity is a simple concept that has become a complex problem. It has become complex due to fraud. Fraud, motivated by money and the ease of obtaining credit and taking over an account. Because identity has yet to be effectively established, anyone can be you. ...
  2 weeks ago

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