Posts Tagged ‘IT Security Threats’
The Secret to Strong Passwords
As the CEO of a company that specializes in securing the privileged account passwords that control access to an [...]
Password Security: A Lack of Awareness
Lieberman Software conducted a survey of more than 300 IT professionals at HP Protect 2011 in September. The survey [...]
5 Ways to Avoid Being the Next Security Headline
It's been an active season for criminal hackers, rogue IT administrators and others with vindictive motives and the [...]
Going Wired-Only May be Best Defense Against Free Android Man-in-the-Middle and Trojan Attack App
As a new wireless network sniffing app for Android – reportedly with attack, man-in-the-middle and remote trojan [...]
IT Holds More Power than Management Realizes
At my company we often say that “privileged identities hold the keys to the IT kingdom.” After all, an admin who [...]
Recognizing and Avoiding Scareware is no Simple Task
As a veteran of the IT security industry I was recently asked for tips on how to recognize and avoid scareware. This [...]
Five Rules for Successful IT Outsourcing
Outsourcing has worked well for some companies, but it can also lead to business-damaging disasters. The problem is [...]
Where’s Your Weakest Link?
Guest Commentary by Jon Geater, Director of Technical Strategy at Thales We are all well used to the traditional [...]
Iranian Hack Highlights the Political Hacktivism Threat
Reports that one of Australia's largest universities, the University of Monash, near Melbourne, has been hacked by [...]
Fallout from WordPress Root Level Attack Not as Bad as it Could Have Been
Reports that hackers gained root-level access to the servers of WordPress.com means that the popular blog publishing [...]
