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Data-Theft Worm Targeting Google's Orkut
FaceTime Security Labs recently announced the discovery of a worm that steals users' banking details, usernames and passwords. The worm, known as MW.Orc, is propagating through Orkut, Google's social networking site, as users launch an executable file disguised as a jpeg.(Full story...)
Yahoo Messenger Allows Users to Share Services
Forget Evite. Yahoo Messenger wants to help you plan events and collaborate with your instant messanging friends by offering the ability to share software applications simultaneously using the instant text and voice communications application. (Full story...)
Will Windows Live Messenger Kill Skype?
Microsoft Windows Live Messenger just came out of beta to join the voice-enabled IM landscape already strewn with AOL, Yahoo, and Google. But Skype isn't worried. (Full story...)
Data Security Grabs Attention of Lawmakers
There is a lot of discussion about how best to protect network data through means such as encryption and access management. But many have not considered what happens to data when the hard drives it resides upon leave an organization. (Full story...)
IM Security: A Threat or Just Marketing Hype?
With an explosion in business use of IM comes the all-too-familiar exploitation of the medium by those who seek illicit gain. Hackers, proliferators of malware, spyware, and viruses, spammers and corporate identity thieves have been quick to exploit the inevitable security gaps created by the skyrocketing popularity of IM. (Full story...)
Defining Value
As an IT professional you know that defining the value IT brings to an organization is never easy. It's up to the CIO to make sure the enablement IT brings to its constituency is heard loud and clear in the board room. (Full story...)
Staff Key to Stealing Your Data
The increase in sophistication around IT scams and breaches means there is a strong demand for IT security professionals working in the areas of forensics, auditing, recognisance and investigation. IT security expert Laura Chappell has some tricks up her sleeve when it comes to auditing a company's security systems. (Full story...)
IT Workers Generally Satisfied
Nearly four out of five (78%) of IT workers are very or somewhat satisfied with their cash and benefits, compared to 72% of all workers. IT professionals also anticipate making more money in 2006 than in 2005-57% indicate they will earn more. (Full story...)
When Is Spyware Not Spyware?
Protecting ones intellectual property may not be malicious, but the fact is, Microsoft's WGA is forced onto the user's system with no option to bypass it and it is engaged in monitoring your computer. That's spyware, period. (Full story...)
Oregon Tax Worker Downloads Porn, Spyware
What's turning out to be a very embarrassing situation, the personal information of up to 2,200 Oregon taxpayers may be in the wrong hands after a former part-time employee downloaded pornography and a hidden spyware program. (Full story...)
So Many Acronyms, So Little Understanding
Even for us techies, acronyms have a funny way of blurring the very things they set out to simplify leading to confusion within IT and, therefore, even more confusion for the business folks we are trying to bring into the fold. (Full story...) |
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The dangerous practice of downloading and using free consumer IM clients and P2P file sharing applications can invite viruses, worms and other security risks into your enterprise network.
Are these unwelcome guests putting your organization at risk for non-compliance with policies or regulations,
intellectual property loss or worse?
