January 2008  









Lotusphere 2008


The 15th annual Lotusphere® conference is just around the corner January 20-24, 2008 in Orlando, Florida.

Be sure to visit FaceTime, pedestal #324, to learn how we can help you secure and manage Lotus Sametime. And enter our drawing for a Slingbox PRO!

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On-Demand Webinar
Single Point of Control for IM, P2P, Spyware and URL Filtering

Your employees – especially the Web 2.0 generation – often introduce consumer-oriented applications onto the corporate network to work more efficiently. When these applications circumvent the security infrastructure, it's difficult for IT to maintain visibility and control. How can your organization take advantage of the productivity and cost benefits of real-time communications while mitigating their inherent business risks?

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SpywareGuide Greynets Blog

Don't miss the Greynets blog - a destination where you can hear from the people who are part of the SpywareGuide and FaceTime Security Labs research teams, as well as developers, programmers and the occasional guest blogger.



  Security Dominates 2008 IT Agenda
Will 2008 see the first serious security exploit in corporate VoIP networks? Or will network security breakdowns cast a pall on the upcoming presidential elections and Olympic games? Will users' Web 2.0 forays open the malware floodgates? Experts say security concerns will dominate the network landscape in 2008 whether we like it or not. (Full story...)


  FaceTime Releases IM and P2P Malware
Findings for 2007

FaceTime announced its initial findings of 2007 malware trends affecting today's enterprise networks through instant messaging (IM), P2P file sharing and chat applications. During 2007 there were 1,088 incidents reported over all IM, P2P, and chat vectors.

Highlights from the report are:

  • Within the IM category, 19% of threats were reported on the AOL Instant Messenger network, 45% on MSN Messenger, 20% on Yahoo! Instant Messenger and 15% on all other IM networks including Jabber-based IM private networks.


  • The increasing threat over this past year has been the boldness of a growing underclass of glory hackers on social networking sites such as MySpace.


  • MySpace and other social networking sites will continue to be the most popular target for hackers, phishers and spammers in 2008 as long as they continue to offer the same level of profile customization to their users.


  • The danger to corporate networks lies within the growing tendency for workers to blur their work and professional lives, often surfing these social networking sites on their work PCs and so exposing the organization to information loss, inbound malware threats and compliance risks.


    • Click here to read more.


      SpywareGuide.com: Stock Trading Spam Hits Flickr
    No site is safe from spam. Take Flickr, for example, which is the target of the latest attack by spammers. SpywareGuide.com explains in detail here. (Full story...)

      Podcast: Hacks on Social Networking Sites
    Security risks continue to plague social networking sites, including a recent spate of MySpace attacks in which the profiles of several celebrities were compromised to, in some cases, spread malware. SC Magazine reporter Dan Kaplan, in a chat with FaceTime Security Labs' researcher Chris Boyd, finds out whether organizations should be worried (Listen now...)


      FaceTime Named Reader Trust Finalist in
    SC Magazine Awards Program
    Recognizing security's key contributors, SC Magazine's readers have voted to recognize the efforts of companies such as FaceTime, "whose products are in the trenches with them on a daily basis," said SC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Illena Armstrong. FaceTime has received top honors as the winner in the IM Security category in the SC Magazine Awards program for the past two years. (Full story...)


      New Resource Provides Unprecedented
    Visibility into Greynets

    GreynetsGuide is a new comprehensive Web-based reference center that helps enterprise network administrators better understand evasive and consumer-oriented applications like public IM clients, P2P file-sharing, anonymizers, IPTV and consumer VoIP that are increasingly being adopted by employees.

    GreynetsGuide.com details the source, behavior and effective removal tools for more than 600 greynet applications of concern to IT managers. FaceTime Security Labs' researchers are identifying and adding new greynets to the database daily. Check out the site at www.GreynetsGuide.com


      Collaboration Overload Costs U.S. $588B a Year
    Digital collaboration tools seem to be helpful when it comes to completing projects, but one research firm claims that interruptions from phone calls, e-mails and instant messages eat up 28 percent of a knowledge worker's work day, resulting in 28 billion hours of lost productivity per year. (Full story...)


      The Top 10 Data Breaches of 2007
    If there's only one thing you'll remember from 2007, it should be the thousands of data breaches that were reported over the year, not Britney Spears' meltdown. (Full story...)


      Google Adds AIM to Chat for Gmail
    It looks like Google has finally accepted that it won't be able to get Internet users to discard AIM for Google Talk. Instead, last month Google added AIM chat features to Gmail. (Full story....)


      2008: Year of Innovation, Both Good And Evil
    The coming year will undoubtedly be chalk full of tech innovation throughout the world, for better or worse. As the tech industry pushes innovation, so do the mobsters developing malware to steal information from unsuspecting victims. (Full story...)


      IT Job Skills That Matter: Where You Can Leave A Mark
    What are the hottest skills for IT professionals? For starters, they aren't learning advanced computer programming or how to rewire a network. The most in-demand skills center on business acumen, not deeper technical experience. (Full story...)


      How to Spend (and Not Bust) Your 2008 IT Budget
    With IT budgets remaining essentially flat for 2008 and uncertain economic times ahead, it's more important than ever to make sure you don't overspend on IT. But how can you avoid spending the little funds you do have? Check out these great tips from eWeek. (Full story...)


      iPhone Target For Cybercriminals In 2008
    It's likely that the iPhone will be the target of malware infiltration in the coming year. Arbor's Security and Engineering Response Team have put together forecasts predicting that the iPhone will be the subject of a major attack in 2008. What can you do to prepare? (Full story...)


      MC Hammer's Next Act: Tech Startup
    If you're a has-been who can't get his own reality show, try MC Hammer's techy idea. Drawing upon the popularity of reality shows like "Dancing With The Stars," MC Hammer's new startup, called DanceJam, will stage competitions where contestants submit videos that will be judged by viewers. (Full story...)


      New Year Rings in Anxiety for More IT Pros
    Did you get a raise for the New Year? You're not alone. IT workers will see salaries rise in 2008. However, the year is also bringing more insecurity among IT workers as concerns about job security are also on the rise. (Full story...)








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