It’s Better to Prevent than to Cure
Written by Andrea Hamer (The Data Center Journal)
Last week a company that rents an office floor next to ours fell prey to a malicious attack. The employees of the company use instant messengers to communicate with their existing and potential customers. Although it is a common knowledge that the improper use of instant messengers can pose a great risk to an enterprise, people still click on the links they receive. The addresser of such messages and links is often an attacker. In the case with our neighboring company there was no happy ending: each employee who clicked on the link leading to a scammer’s website lost her ICQ ID. As the sales department relied greatly on this type of communication with customers, the loss of the company is to be estimated.
In the age of information technologies, each employee – not only IT department staff – should be familiar with how to keep their valuable data safe and secure. To fulfill this task in a proper way one should try to halt hidden security threats, with those lying on the surface, in order to avoid grave consequences and damage for the whole company. Employees’ information security literacy is a job of both IT guys and HR professionals. That is the reason we listed the most wide-spread hidden security threats for you to be aware of. (…)
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Real-World Security in a Virtual Infrastructure – Part 7
(from Virtualization.info) Network stability is a concept most system administrator instinctively know about: however, no organization actually had any need to willingly enforce it or even care about until recent years.
It’s only with the huge rise of mobile devices and their penetration inside enterprise environments that network – or better, infrastructure – stability has indeed become an issue.
What do we mean with infrastructure stability?
Stability is a property of any system behaving in a consistent, somehow foreseeable way. Most things in the world are somehow stable: you are not expecting your house to fall on your head, nor the hole in the wall you spent your Sunday fixing to pop open once again.
Just the same is true in networks, especially large networks. While new systems are being added on a rather regular basis, the vast majority of the infrastructure components keep running consistently until they stop serving their intended purposes and are then stopped forever. (…)
FAAS – The New Terminology of Security
Written by Rakesh Dogra
I am sure you are quite familiar with terms such as SAAS which stand for software as a service plus several similar terms such as infrastructure as a service, but just try to recollect if there is a term which goes by FAAS. Just don’t blame your memory if you cannot seem to remember this, for it is a relatively new term which stands for – Fraud As A Service.
This is certainly not a bad joke, but a good example of how important fraudsters are in the online world today; using the word “important” in the sense of an intended pun. This terminology has been coined by RSA, the security wing of EMC, which deals mainly with counteracting malicious activity in cyberspace and tries to establish and maintain security standards and norms. (…)
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Social networks teeming with spam and malware
The dirty Web is getting dirtier. Today 95 per cent of user comments in blogs, chat rooms, message boards and other social forums are actually spam or links to malware, research shows.
Nearly 95 per cent of user comments in blogs, chat rooms, message boards and other social forums are actually spam or links to malware, according to a recent report from Websense Inc., a Web security software developer in San Diego, Calif.
What’s more, security tools provided by sites such as YouTube and BlogSpot are only 25 to 35 per cent effective in protecting Web users from “objectionable content and security risks,” noted Carl Mercier, director of software development at Websense. (…)
