Google Advisory: Facebook and Twitter regularly victims of malware
July 27, 2010 – 11:02 am | 2 Comments

Google Advisory: Facebook and Twitter regularly victims of malware – Christina Goggi
Social networking sites have taken the world by storm and continue to find their way into the workplace. While these sites can work as …

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Internet Monitoring: How, what, why?
July 29, 2010 – 2:10 pm | No Comment
Internet Monitoring: How, what, why?

Monitoring is a vast subject and it is often difficult to think about everything you can monitor; even worse is deciding what is worth the cost of being monitored and what can safely be ignored.  …

Unbelievable Security Stories
July 22, 2010 – 1:36 pm | 3 Comments
Unbelievable Security Stories

I was reading a story on Reuters about a security expert who highlighted the point that ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) have certain security flaws that help hackers hit the jackpot. Certainly an intriguing story as …

Protect Your Customers and Employees Against Data Theft and Identity Fraud
July 8, 2010 – 5:01 pm | 2 Comments
Protect Your Customers and Employees Against Data Theft and Identity Fraud

Security breaches threaten not only your infrastructure and data integrity, but also your standing in the business community and your organization’s very survival.  The protection of personally identifiable information (PII) has become a necessity in …

10 Tips to Avoid Spam
July 7, 2010 – 1:57 pm | 5 Comments
10 Tips to Avoid Spam

Education is an integral part of security. Educating your employees can be an effective defence against attacks; it can also help save money in some cases. Part of your bandwidth costs is consumed by spam …

Wild Wild West (WWW)
July 5, 2010 – 3:15 pm | 2 Comments
Wild Wild West (WWW)

In the past decade the internet has surpassed all expectations and changed the lives of us all. The World Wide Web holds little or no safety for the end user. Very much like the Wild …

How to create a complex and secure backup strategy
July 1, 2010 – 4:02 pm | 2 Comments
How to create a complex and secure backup strategy

Nobody likes to backup, but the reality is that hard drive failure or other types of disaster (natural or not) is something that we need to be prepared for at any time. What better way …

Is Privacy Dead?
June 28, 2010 – 3:34 pm | 7 Comments
Is Privacy Dead?

With the advent of the internet many people seem to forget about privacy and its importance.  Some people claim that privacy is actually dead and has been for a while and we have plenty of …

Do you know the dangers of wireless networks?
June 24, 2010 – 12:27 pm | 5 Comments
Do you know the dangers of wireless networks?

I came across a story about an old case from 2007 where hackers infiltrated T.J. Maxx’s wireless network at one of the outlets and stole over 45 million credit card numbers. Those involved got caught …

Top 10 Security Precautions when using Social Networking Sites
June 23, 2010 – 10:56 am | 7 Comments
Top 10 Security Precautions when using Social Networking Sites

It is impossible and illegal to stop employees from using social networking sites 24/7 and even if it were legal it wouldn’t be a good idea as it could easily alienate your employees. The best …

How to secure your network the old fashioned way
June 18, 2010 – 4:21 pm | One Comment
How to secure your network the old fashioned way

Many times we think of security as policies, software, hardware and other such things; however, there is a lot more to it. When securing your network (especially in a large company with multiple locations) it’s …