February 2007 Archives

Download file Introduction Postini has been on the front lines in the battle against spam since 1999, so it was a great opportunity for me to get a chance to speak with Dan Druker, Executive Vice President of Postini,... Read More..

Last Friday Mozilla released a significant update to their Firefox browser with a strong recommendation that all users immediately update. Here are the following details from Mozilla: As part of Mozilla Corporation's ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 1.5.0.10... Read More..

Lawmakers in Massachusetts are weighing a law that would shift the financial burden generated by a data breach from banks to retailers. The law would be the first of its kind to make retailers assume all of the costs of... Read More..

Recalling a recent series of blogs by ebizQ’s very own Andre Yee regarding insider attacks, I found this article on Dark Reader concerning a DuPont employee trying to steal $400 Million in trade secrets. Computer security played a big part... Read More..

As the internet has evolved, so has the face of the cybercriminal, changing from what was once the providence of bedroom-geek hackers into something resembling much more of a full-fledged criminal who, instead of a gun, uses a computer. As... Read More..

I recently interviewed Alena Siameshka, the Marketing and PR Manager of SearchInform Technologies, a company once exclusively focused on search technology, on SearchInform's recent entry into the security sector with the MailSniffer email security solution. Give it a listen.... Read More..

It’s been a few days since my last blog, so I have a couple of things to discuss. First thing, I think it’s extraordinary telling of our times that, with spam and e-scams the way they are, that if you... Read More..

I recently interviewed Amol Deshmukh, product marketing manager of Gemalto North America, regarding Gemalto's Network Identity Manager (NIM), which introduces an innovative and completely secure approach to network security.... Read More..

A disturbing report found at Dark Reader questions whether the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that temporarily crippled, but did not crash, two of the internet's 13 Domain Name System (DNS) root servers was really just a test run. Last week's... Read More..

Microsoft announced that it will release at least a dozen patch bundles this next patch Tuesday to plug various vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and other software. This batch of patches could end up breaking a record for the... Read More..

What follows are the continuation of John Thompson's comments, Chairman and CEO of Symantec, at the RSA Conference, as he answers how to build confidence in the wired world: Antivirus and firewall solutions are a first line of defense. But... Read More..

I found John Thompson’s speech, the Chairman and CEO of Symantec, at the RSA Conference very instructive. What follows are some of his points regarding security and the future of IT: Confidence is the essential component if we want to... Read More..

With some good news for a change, Americans lost $49.3 billion in 2006 to identity theft criminals, which, while still a rather big number, compared to 2005, where the losses totaled $55.7 billion, represents the first decline in 3 years.... Read More..

According to Websense, the internet site for Dolphin Stadium, which hosted yesterday's Superbowl, played inadvertent host to a trojan horse program that will download a keystroke-logging machine on any Window's machine that hasn't obtained the latest upgrades. As you can... Read More..

The recent report of a data breach at TJX companies, which is the parent company of TJ Maxx, would make a perfect cautionary tale of how not to store data five years ago, let alone in 2007. As detailed by... Read More..

The U.S. military is looking to add information operations and the defense of the internet as part of its core focus, according to the recently declassified “Information Operations Roadmap,” a document prepared by the Defense Department under Donald Rumsfeld. The... Read More..