Earlier this week, I wrote how modern day targeted attacks don’t lend themselves to today’s security solutions. I’d like to follow up those thoughts by exploring strategies for combating these types of highly calculated threats.
While organizations focus on their business growth, they are also forced to contend with cyber criminals targeting their corporate networks to steal valuable information that can make them lots of money. As a result, evolving fraud professionals are truly changing how businesses protect their private data and fight cyber crime. Continue reading this post…
Cyber crime has evolved from mass attacks intended to wreck havoc and steal as much data as possible to highly targeted attacks looking for specific information from an organization. Custom malware, designed to bypass legacy endpoint security, forms the foundation of these attacks. As a result, these calculated attacks are becoming more dangerous for the businesses and government entities hackers are targeting. Continue reading this post…
April showers may bring May flowers, but the Internet also saw something else in full bloom — cyber crime. Computer systems around the globe experienced a variety of problems in April ranging from more fake antivirus software to malicious code that avoids detection from search engine Web crawlers. But none were as big as a well-publicized faulty security update that crashed thousands of computers and became a public relations nightmare for one of the world’s top security software makers. Here were some of the top security stories from April 2010: Continue reading this post…
Despite consorted efforts to detect and block one of the world’s most dangerous forms of malware, security experts predict the Conficker worm will continue to deactivate security defenses and wreck havoc on computer networks throughout 2010. That’s bad news for security professionals who are actively doing everything they can to protect their networks from more harmful botnets and malware. Continue reading this post…
As we close the door on another year of protecting our networks from the never-ending security threats, I hope the information I’ve provided in this blog has been valuable in your ongoing efforts to make your enterprise more secure. December was a month with a number of articles focused on the larger trends in security in 2009. Continue reading this post…