ScareWare Infects Tens of Millions Yearly
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
There is still a lot of scareware out there, and many people still falling for it. Forty-three million in the last year according to Symantec. Put simply, scareware programs are designed to frighten people into running malicious software by popping up when the user is online and declaring that viruses have been detected…
Microsoft Security Essentials Only First Step
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
Whilst the recent news that Microsoft has released a free computer security package to the public is reassuring, it does not detract from the fact that the world’s most popular operating system still has serious security flaws.
Forgotten Security Defenses Pose Threat
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
Companies are protecting themselves from high-profile threats such as malware attacks, but are often leaving themselves vulnerable from the forgotten security defenses. In the first of our advisory notices on forgotten security, we advise companies to examine their applications, hardware and security systems to protect against vulnerabilities resulting from insufficient monitoring.
Securing Your Email and Controlling IM Risks
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
Currently, people rely on obscurity to keep their data safe. But with progressively more intelligent search engines available that can churn through vast amounts of data and make sense of it – even your email – security is something that needs to be addressed.
P2P File Sharing Puts Companies at Risk
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
We’ve just published the latest guide in our ‘Securing Social Media’ series. We advise companies to block the use of P2P on the corporate network where not related to business use, and implement security guidelines to limit future risk.
Securing Against SQL Injection Attacks
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
Security firms, like Network Box, operate sophisticated Intrusion Detection and Prevention systems that can block many exploits, (such as public web applications), but even these type of systems can only offer a limited amount of protection in the case of private, internal applications.
Why Not Leave Security to the Experts?
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
IT is widely seen as a strategic, not a tactical, function of the business. The job of the IT team is to set and implement an IT strategy to meet a business need, rather than developing the tactical technology to support the business need – which, more and more, is left to specialist experts. Nowhere have we seen this more than in security.
Breakthroughs in the Battle Against Spam
By Simon Heron, CISSP Internet Security Analyst
We’ve been developing a way of detecting and blocking spam that analyses not just content and IP address, but by applying learning from email user behaviour and relationships, to understand which emails the recipient actually wants, and which are spam.
