Optimal Security : the Lumension Blog

Whether you want to admit it or not, social networking is a fact of everyday corporate life. In most companies, the number one social networking application used daily during work hours is Facebook. This is not a fad as it took less than 9 months for Facebook to reach 100 million users and the Apple [...]

My take:

New Internet-based technologies bring new opportunities for the bad guys.
The growth of the applications we use has gone from dozens to nearly 1,000.
The losses are huge, and while the top-line number is disputable, no one can argue that cybercrime losses have reached previously unforeseen levels.
Regardless of whose survey you read, the majority of respondents [...]

SQL injection attacks have been in the news lately given two recent highly publicized attacks against security vendors.  According to a recent IBM report, SQL injection attacks increased 30X between this past summer and the end of 2008 and resulted in a 50 percent increase in the number of malicious URLs hosting exploits. The report [...]