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Employee-owned mobile devices pose a greater risk to the enterprise than company-supplied devices
posted on 14/06/2011
A new ISACA survey has revealed that 61 percent of the UK's IT leaders believe that any employee-owned mobile device poses a greater risk to the enterprise than company-supplied devices do, as opposed to 31 percent who said a mobile device supplied by the company is riskiest. When asked, ”What is the riskiest behaviour you are aware of an employee doing with a mobile device that has access to the corporate network?”, storing company data in a... [more]
Online scammers lure their victims into participating in their surveys
posted on 14/06/2011
May 2011 has been marked by a number of Facebook survey scams baiting users with offers of free airline tickets, as well as exclusive video footage of Osama Bin Laden’s death. In May, users also faced the continued threat of rogue antivirus attacks around the Web, including a fraudulent Brad Pitt fan club website. Online scammers employ a number of lures to entice victims to participate in their surveys. Offers of free merchandise are often en... [more]
Unclosed security holes in browser plug-ins are in fashion with cyber criminals
posted on 13/06/2011
According to research carried out by G Data SecurityLab, unclosed security holes in browser plug-ins are very much in fashion with bands of cyber criminals. This distribution concept means that current security holes are far from being the only ones exploited by the perpetrators, as evidenced in the current malware analysis for the month of May 2011. In the previous month alone, four of the Top 10 computer malware programs had been targeting ... [more]
Stonesoft's first Anti-Evasion Readiness Test service tests protection against AETs
posted on 13/06/2011
Advanced evasion techniques (AETs) are a means to disguise and/or to modify network attacks to avoid detection and blocking by the network security systems. In practice, evasions enable advanced cyber criminals to deliver any malicious content, exploits or attacks to a vulnerable system without leaving a trace. Based on latest knowledge and research, AETs can bypass the majority of the existing security devices. Stonesoft has debuted the world... [more]
Kaspersky Endpoint 8 for Smartphone protects corporate data on mobile devices from loss, theft, unauthorised access and mobile malware
posted on 13/06/2011
The steep rise in consumerisation of IT over the past year has impacted on the evolution of endpoints in the workplace. Traditionally, the endpoints that employees used most frequently were laptops and PCs, but this now includes smartphones and Canalys estimates that over 20 million smartphones were shipped into the UK in 2010, of which Android accounted for 20 per cent. This rise in popularity means that both business-owned and consumer devices ... [more]
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