I came across an excellent story by Ars Technica on the Stuxnet malware. It’s well worth the read as it goes into detail on how the virus originated, how it was analyzed and how security researchers got to the bottom …

There are a number of software products that can help you protect your network from both internal and external attacks. Protecting the network with these tools is, relatively speaking, the easy part. The hard part is to design security policies …

There are several reasons why you need to limit Internet access on the network. Perhaps your company is experiencing a problem with individuals’ productivity. Or Human Resources has determined that there is an issue with certain employees’ web access. Maybe …

There are different objectives behind malware and hacking attacks, and one of the primary reasons is obviously financial gain. The methods malicious hackers use to achieve financial gain have over time changed and evolved. In the past, this activity centered …

In security we often preach that insider threats are generally the worst. When the attacker is one of your own the challenge to keep your systems safe becomes a lot harder. This is because you effectively tell your staff what …

Patching systems is often seen as a simple task but there is more to the patch management process than meets the eye. You don’t just get the patches and deploy them but you need to start planning and testing before …

Most organizations pay attention to security and patching their systems, but how many have a well-honed patch management policy? Patch management is often seen as a trivial task. Simply click on ‘update’ and that’s it. But in reality there is …

Network auditing is a must for any organization. Networks are dynamic entities; they grow, shrink, change and divide themselves continuously. Network administrators cannot even assume this process is entirely under their control. Users add devices and sometimes even new hardware …

Running a vulnerability assessment is fundamental for any organization. When an administrator is in the process of securing his network, there are a lot of things he needs to bear in mind. Unfortunately, when it comes to network security most …

Malware writers and people who make money off the distribution of malware have always had one tricky element to their operation – getting the user to act in such a way which gets him/her infected. Throughout the years one approach …