Archive for the ‘Web Security’ Category

Citibank Data Security Breach

Posted: 24th June 2011 by admin in Hacking News, PCI, risk assessment, Security Assesment, Security Policy, Web Security
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Citibank Data Security Breach, credit cards stolen

Google Me on the Web, is it any good?

Posted: 17th June 2011 by admin in Google, Identity theft, Security Policy, Web Security
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Google Me on the Web, identity theft and reputation management

Geo-tagging photos can lead to cyberstalkers finding you

Posted: 4th February 2011 by admin in Corporate Stupidity, Hacking News, malware, Security Policy, social media, Social network, Web Security
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A new threat could be giving up your location when you post a picture from inside your house. A team of scientists dicovered that with some smartphones, a user’s latitude and longitude can be attached tothe picture you post in the metadata.

Facebook’s new security features and the Zuckerberg hacking incident

Posted: 28th January 2011 by admin in Compliance, Corporate Stupidity, Hacking News, Identity theft, Security Policy, social media, Web Security
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Facebook’s new security features and the Zuckerberg hacking incident

The Dangers of Employee Social Media Usage

Posted: 29th December 2010 by admin in Security Assesment, Security Policy, social media, Social network, Web Security
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Employers are constantly hearing of social media this and social media that. When your employees go on break or eat lunch, they are usually on their cell phones talking. But, now there are also applications on phones like Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare and others where an employee can actually send photo uploads while being mobile and [...]

Social Media Warfare: Are you attacking or defending?

Posted: 6th September 2010 by admin in antivirus, Compliance, Entrepreneur, Phishing, risk assessment, Security Assesment, Security Policy, social media, Social network, Web 2.0, Web Security
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Image via CrunchBase Is there such a thing as Social Media Warfare? We have had cyber warfare going on for years now. So it should be an obvious “YES” that Social Media warfare exists. But is that true?  To get to a full blown war opposing sides go through an escalation process. Where are we [...]

When will Vendors provide Risk Assessments of their products?

Posted: 17th February 2010 by admin in antivirus, Compliance, Hacking News, risk assessment, Security Assesment, Supplier Security, Web Security
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Image via Wikipedia Vendor risk assessment are not part of everyday corporate managememnt but it should be. If you drive a car and every week you have to get something fixed it would prove pretty annoying, disgusting, outrageous and you probably you would never buy that model again and probably wouldn’t by from that manufacturer [...]

Data Loss, this time with Network Solutions

Posted: 27th July 2009 by admin in Hacking News, malware, PCI, Security Assesment, Web Security
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Data Loss, this time with Network Solution Network Solutions, one of the largest domain registrars recently announced a data breach. Malicious code was found on its e-commerce server which may have captured transactions from thousands of websites and capturing half a million or more credit cards. The company said they found the code during a [...]

Wireless (in)Security in Your Pocket

Posted: 22nd June 2009 by admin in antivirus, Web Security, wireless security
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Verizon has launched the pocketable MiFi router. The MiFi 2200 has CDMA with EV-DO Rev. A. So you can roam around without a datacard as the only means for your laptop on the middle of nowhere. This credit card size access point can connect multiple devices such as your iPhone or a laptop. I havent bought a gadget in awhile, [...]

Healthcare Security- Identity Theft and Hacker ransom

Posted: 7th May 2009 by admin in Hacking News, Identity theft, Managed Security, Web Security
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I hope no one is actually shocked by this story. Records are stolen everyday. Typically, the hackers will sell the information in the underground somewhere is Eastern Europe or Asia. The fact that someone is asking for ransom, and so publicly it actually a good thing in my opinion. Why is it good you ask? (I [...]

Ways to Maintain Website Security

Posted: 10th April 2009 by admin in Compliance, Could Computing, Web Security
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With the advancement in technology comes the heavy responsibility of monitoring an organization’s sensitive and valuable information. The use of the Internet has become a necessity in organizations to exchange their data and various other business details with their business partners, vendors and clients. In many cases, during transmission of datahackers compromise a network or [...]