Author Archives: David Kelleher
The tale of Gray Powell and the lost iPhone 4.0
Malware creators love a juicy news story Malware creators just love a news story that has the perfect ingredients: a leading brand name, a prototype phone and a thriving IT community just dying to hear what the latest gadget is …
Launching backup solution for small and medium-sized businesses
We are pleased to announce that GFI has launched a fast, efficient, full-featured network data backup solution, GFI Backup 2010 – Business Edition, which applies comprehensive backup, restores and synchronizes functionality to all files, web, Microsoft SQL servers, and more. …
Twitter in the workplace – the threats
Twitter was named ‘word’ of the year in 2009 confirming the growth of a social networking and media site that is used by over 350 million people worldwide. However, Twitter is also gaining a reputation as a security risk for …
GFI Software launches GFI MAX MailProtection™ and GFI MAX MailEdge™
We are pleased to announce that GFI has launched two hosted email security and continuity solutions for small and medium-sized businesses – GFI MAX MailProtection and GFI MAX MailEdge. These two products form part of the new GFI MAX family …
The Hybrid Approach – giving SMBs the ‘best of both worlds’
Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) can benefit a great deal from Cloud-based services but this does not mean they have to do away with their existing infrastructure. On the contrary, careful planning, a thorough understanding of what the business and …
Five reasons to implement Internet monitoring in your organization
I recently had an interesting conversation with the editor of a non-profit business publication in the US. We were talking about the results of a recent survey that GFI had commissioned and the editor seemed somewhat surprised that so many …
Employees are prepared to steal company data!
In a previous post, I had talked about two employees who are charged with having allegedly gained access to their former employer’s network even though they had left the company a couple of years before. This week a former employee …
Google searches, Cyber Monday and the Holiday season
If you are a Twilight fan and eagerly looking forward to the latest movie, New Moon, watch for a viral marketing campaign that is currently doing the rounds on the Internet. USA Today reported this week that scammers and malware …
When employees bite back – Security in organizations
Two men in Indiana, US are facing up to five years in prison and a quarter of a million dollar fine after they were allegedly caught using old passwords to gain access to the company’s network even though they were …
Oops! We’ve lost your data!
Over 100,000 former adult students in Virginia are being contacted by the education authorities after a USB stick with information including their names, social security numbers and employment and demographic details, was misplaced. The data was not encrypted, the Washington …
