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February 2009 Archives
February 26, 2009
Malware Strikes Again
Just last week I talked about how millions of our credit numbers may have been potentially leaked.
Well, it looks like they did it again. And as with the previous incident, the main culprit was malware. At this rate, PCI-Compliant or not, something drastic will need to be done or they will take down the entire credit card infrastructure sooner or later. What concerns me the most is that these incidents are only reported because the malware residing in those systems were discovered. My gut feeling is that this is only the tip of the iceberg and that there are a more we just haven't heard about yet. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Pete at 11:50 AM
Categories: Malware
February 25, 2009
STM Featured on NGTV
Jason Leung, Senior Product Line Manager for SMB Security Products - The mastermind behind bringing you ProSecure and the STM, is interviewed on NGTV. Jason shares valuable insight on the current state of Internet security and how the STM helps protect networks from the ever growing threat of Web & email based malware and spam. Definitely worth watching.
Posted by: Pete at 10:29 AM
Categories: General
February 13, 2009
STM 150 @ Times Square
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Posted by: Pete at 1:10 AM
Categories: General
February 13, 2009
Why Your Data is Never Safe (Or, what a totaled car teaches us about Internet Fraud!)
I was in a car accident a couple of weeks ago. Something I never thought I'd get into. I consider myself a good driver, always (most of the time anyways) following rules and traffic signs, alert, aware of my surroundings, what other cars around me are doing. However, I was still rear ended on the freeway, while I was at a complete stop. Apparently, the driver who hit me was not paying attention to the traffic in front of him, so he hit me and pushed my car into two other cars. The damage: my lovely car was totaled. Luckily, I managed to walk away from that with only a few aches and pains. The moral of the story? No matter how careful you are, you can't control how others around you drive. All you can do is drive the safest car you can afford and drive it safely.
So what does this have to do with your data? I came across THIS article a few weeks back and let out a long sigh of helplessness. One little keylogger and millions of credit card numbers are potentially compromised. So you've installed security software on your PC. You have a VPN firewall. You have a gateway security solution. You've deployed URL filtering, anti-spam, IPS, applied security patches...the works. You've taken all the steps necessary to secure your network. And yet your credit card numbers still end up in the wrong hands. No matter how careful you are, you have no control over where your data goes after it leaves your network. You have no idea what payment processing firms and other organizations handling our sensitive data have in place for network security. In the end, all you can do is deploy the best security you can afford and hope that others follow suit. Sound familiar?
Posted by: Pete at 12:33 AM
Categories: Malware , Phishing , Spyware
