Archive for February, 2012
Preventing Data Loss With Password Manager Tools
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It is impossible to understate the importance of having and using strong, secure online passwords, both personally and for companies. As tools like Firesheep have shown, gaining access to an email or Facebook account can be alarmingly simple.
One of the primary reasons individuals reuse the same passwords is because keeping track of 100 different logins is difficult, if not impossible. This is where password management applications become crucial, especially in a business environment. For business accounts, using a separate, unique password for each major service — and making sure that none of these passwords are the same as those associated with personal accounts should be mandatory in a business environment. Read More→
Shady RAT World Wide Hacking
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Recently McAffe published a worldwide hacking report about what they are calling Shady RAT.
The United Nations, Olympic committees, governments, U.S. real estate company, a major media organization based in New York, a satellite communications company and other companies around the world, totaling 72 organizations, have been hacked by a “state actor”.
While there are suspicions as to which country was involved,it has not yet been proven. McAfee’s vice-president of threat research, Dmitri Alperovitch, wrote in a 14-page report that, “Even we were surprised by the enormous diversity of the victim organizations and were taken aback by the audacity of the perpetrators. What is happening to all this data … is still largely an open question. However, if even a fraction of it is used to build better competing products or beat a competitor at a key negotiation (due to having stolen the other team’s playbook), the loss represents a massive economic threat.” Read More→
Financial Malware That Can Clean Out Your Bank Account
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Recently I have been reading about warnings of some nasty new online banking malware. Many of us do bank online and we trust our banks to be on top of security and safety issues. And to stay in business, this is something that they must do and they do it well. However, cyber criminals seem to be successfully keeping pace with online security developments and seem to be quite adept at stealing other peoples money. Read More→
Are You At Risk For Online Identity Theft?
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People use the internet mainly for three things – searching, sharing, and shopping. The advent of smartphones and social media these last few years has opened up a new activity: texting. This new world is where communication is happening is opening up new security. In many cases people are using social networking as an online diary where they share their deepest thoughts and opinions, their travel plans and personal information. Read More→
Medical ID Theft Is Nothing To Sneeze At
Posted by: | CommentsBelow is a report from the Smart Card Alliance on Medical Identity Theft. While the info is staggering the walk away points for me is the migration to PHRs, EHRs and HIEs. Security has to start at the very beginning and that is where a secure token and password manager combination work well together. Read More→
