Closing the Antivirus Protection Gap
May 16th, 2012
Chris Merritt - Dir. Solutions Marketing
DNSChanger Trojan: Not All Doom and Gloom
May 9th, 2012
If your server(s) have been infected by the DNSChanger Trojan and you’ve not done anything about it, time is running out. You have until July 9, 2012 to get your systems fixed, or you’ll lose internet access until you do. This insidious little Trojan – variously known as TDSS, Alureon, TidServ, and TDL4 malware – [...]
A Bit of May Madness from Microsoft for May 2012 Patch Tuesday
May 8th, 2012
The disruptive restarts and the wide range of platforms impacted by May’s bulletins will have IT teams scrambling to accomplish their flaw remediation tasks this month. Combine those with the workload from Oracle and others and many security pros may unfortunately not get a break this Memorial Day. We have 7 bulletins this month; 3 [...]
Checkmark Compliance Will Get You Nowhere But Hacked
May 7th, 2012
It used to be the only thing you could count on was death and taxes. But these days, you can bet on hackers going after your organization’s data too. Motives may differ – consider the hackers who want to make a statement and the cyber criminals who look to make a buck – but in [...]
Why Go Corporate? Choices in How to Earn The Big Bucks
May 3rd, 2012
Hacking, like most things, is cyclical. In its earliest days, it was about proving a point; breaking a system that was said to be unbreakable and awarding bragging rights to the one who could do it. What began as an ego boost then became something much different in the 90s. Once hackers figured out how [...]
A Look at April’s State of Cyber Security
May 1st, 2012
April was a busy month for those of us that follow cybersecurity happenings. Tune in to my take on the last 30 days and as always, please share your thoughts on these topics and/or include any other news I may have left out. Download the podcast. Government Action Impacting our Industry CISPA: Yet Another Cybersecurity [...]
Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Security vs. Operations
April 18th, 2012
Time and again, we’ve heard IT teams lament over how security continues to challenge the operational aspects of an organization. And these issues will not likely resolve themselves. While there isn’t a silver bullet that will “fix” this situation, there are best practices that will definitely improve security and increase operational efficiency. For some tips, we [...]
Is Apple the New Adobe?
April 13th, 2012
A security weakness in Apple Quicktime Java Extensions was reported to Apple today (along with proof of concept code) by Adam Gowdiak, a resarcher with Security Explorations in Poland. The issue impacts Quicktime 7.7.1 running on Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 HP 64-bit, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, along with web browsers; Mozilla Firefox 11.0, Internet Explorer [...]
Paul Zimski - IT Security Expert
Security and Operations: Back to the Basics
April 12th, 2012
We’re back with part II in our podcast series on security versus operations with Mike Rothman, president and analyst with Securosis. In this post, Mike and I will discuss getting back to the basics of endpoint security, as small and mid-size organizations should not even consider employing in-depth cyber security measures until they have the [...]
In Life There are Two Certainties – Taxes and Patches
April 10th, 2012
As we approach April 15, we get to deal with both filing our income taxes and a taxing bunch of patches from Microsoft and others. While the overall number of patches from Microsoft is light, we have 4 critical patches along with two important ones. They impact a wide array of platforms and applications including [...]
Is BackDoor.Flashback.39 Trojan Going to be Apple’s Conficker?
April 9th, 2012
With 274 of the 600,000 infected Mac’s now being reported as being in Cupertino – Apple’s hometown – maybe they will feel a little of the pain their users are now feeling and get serious about being more candid and perhaps more revelaing in their patch release notifications. Calculating the number of infected Macs this [...]
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