Tech Stocks Week in Review Featuring Dell
From Trefis.com
Trefis Analysis: Notebook PCs 17% of Dell’s Stock on February 25, 2010 Dell shipped an additional 1.2 million notebook PCs in 2009 over 2008. We expect growth in the global notebook market to drive Dell’s notebooks sales in the future…
21 More Business Sector Breaches from 2009
From the Infosec Island Network
Some of the breaches described in the notifications were reported in the media at the time, but we spotted a number from the business sector that had not been reported in the media or on this site at the time. So here is a brief roundup on another 21 breaches from the business sector last year…
19 More Financial Sector Breaches from 2009
From the Infosec Island Network
Maryland has updated its web site to provide breach notifications that it has received since its last update. The newly posted notifications are for the period ending December 31, 2009, so there will likely be more to come for 2010…
Building Your Own Malware Lab Part One
From the Infosec Island Network
Malicious software pieces like viruses, worms and bots are currently one of the largest threats to the security of the Internet. Antivirus Labs have invested great Money for analyzing and reversing viruses, but for our case we can perform the analysis using some useful tools on our PC…
Road Map for Software Security Architects
From the Infosec Island Network
If you, as a the security architect involved in the security assessment process, are smart, you would have a security framework to meet these requirements. And if you are “lucky” the application designer will have aligned the requirements to the security framework. But, the reality is that even with an architecture supported by standards and guideline, convincing the application developers to follow it is another story…
2009 Cyber Attacks Increased by One Third
From the Infosec Island Network
Symantec’s 2010 State of Enterprise Security study also found that 100 percent of enterprises surveyed experienced cyber losses in 2009, with theft of intellectual property, customer credit card information or other financial information and customer personally identifiable information the most prevalent…
Federal Guides for Social Media Security p.II
By Mike Meikle, CEO at Hawkthorne Group
Once an agency crosses over into social media interactions with other agencies and non-governmental organizations, the guidance gets diluted. The guidelines point to five government agencies, none of which are the definitive resource for social media implementations. These guidelines are a must read for any organization that is considering a foray into the Web 2.0 sphere…
Banks, Businesses, Viruses and the UCC
From the Infosec Island Network
There’s an interesting post over at Krebs On Security talking about some poor company that is going bankrupt because TD Bank allegedly will not give them their money back after it was stolen out of their account. As such, if your company has money wired out of it’s account, the bank isn’t to be held liable - or at least that’s been their argument. This is happening all the time, so why aren’t we hearing about it all the time? Well that leads me to the worst part of this story…
Relationships with Foreign Business Partners
By Thomas R. Fox, Attorney at Tom Fox Law
There are several critical components in the selection, use and retention of any Foreign Business Partner, such as agents, resellers, joint venture partners or distributors. The due diligence process should contain, at a minimum, inquiries into the following areas…
Defending Against Advanced Persistent Errata
From the Infosec Island Network
Many security professionals have sent me irrate comments via e-mail like: You’re insane! You can’t block China! How long have you been in security! You can’t block a whole country! These remarks come in response to my writings concerning cyberwarfare, China and similar themes. In today’s blog entry, I bring to you: “Advanced Persistent Errata – Defending The Castle;” in other words, Blocking ANYONE you damn well choose to block…
