Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

Identity theft is not the only concern associated with the decline in privacy at Facebook. The increased publicly available personal information on Facebook will undoubtedly fuel enterprise spear phishing attacks. Why hack the enterprises’ perimeter security when you can simply trick an insider into opening a file that installs malware?
The erosion [...]

Gosh … that was fast. Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote about the new data protection / breach notification law in Washington state and – bang – here comes another one. This time it’s Mississippi that’s finally passed one. By my reckoning, that brings the count to 50 states and territories with data [...]

By my count, 48 of the 55 US states and territories have state data protection / data breach notification laws. The state of Washington recently updated theirs, due to take effect on July 1, 2010. It impacts most businesses with customers in Washington.
Washington State House Bill 1149 was passed in early March, and signed by [...]

The Arizona State Senate recently approved SB 1334, designed to prohibit texting while driving. Violators would face a $50 fine, which would be upped to $200 if they are involved in an accident while texting. Texting (including writing, sending or reading a written message on your cell phone or similar device) while driving will be [...]

Last week, I attended two security-related events in San Francisco. I spoke on the topic of the converging endpoint on a panel at America’s Growth Capital’s 6th Annual Information Security and West Coast Emerging Growth Conference. And I walked the floor at the RSA Conference, where Lumension exhibited. Here are my thoughts on the key [...]

The latest fifth annual US Cost of a Data Breach study by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by PGP was released this week. [Disclosure: Lumension has a relationship with the good folks at Ponemon.] The key findings of this report are well articulated in the Executive Summary …

US organizations continue to experience an increased cost [...]

About a hundred years ago (in Internet terms … so, a couple of years back), I learned about RealPlayer the hard way. Despite the warnings from my friend and all-around knowledgeable good guy Tim, I installed it on my lappie so I could play some interesting bit of fluff from the Internet. I then spent [...]

So, upon my return to the Valley of the Sun and after figuring out where our new offices (let alone the coffee machine and bathrooms) were (Lumension has moved, in case you’ve not heard – 3rd floor with a seriously sweet view), I settled down to see what happened over the holidays. First up – [...]

The appointment of Howard Schmidt as the nation’s new cybersecurity coordinator is good news. Howard is one of the leading authorities on information security, and he has years of experience following security issues, threats and technologies. I know Howard and I am certain he is qualified to head up the country’s efforts to improve cybersecurity.
But [...]

What’s all the fuss about the latest changes on Facebook? Simply put, the changes mean that nearly everything that you place on your Facebook page can now potentially be made available to anyone surfing the Internet.
The latest Facebook changes are purported to be an enhancement to make the social networking site easier for people who are looking for [...]