McAfee predict that Adobe, Facebook and Twitter will be the top hacks for 2010. Amongst its other predictions, it also sees the emergence of a new vehicle for attacks in the form of HTML 5, an update to the Web markup language that will support delivery of online video and allow Web applications to run [...]
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Attackers love to tempt people with freebies, security experts say. “The bait that works best is a popular device,” says Sherri Davidoff, a penetration tester who breaks into corporate networks. One of her most successful techniques is simple; a fake employee survey. Victims fill it out thinking they’ll qualify to win an iPod if they [...]
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Many people ask, what is Web 2.0? I found this basic but good overview from none other than Stephen Fry
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One of the biggest information security news items over the past Year is the leaking of confidential or sensitive data by specific applications. Ironically, the applications that facilitated these breaches were specifically forbidden, but because these programs masquerade as valid applications or hide within SSL encryption, traditional network security and IPS appliances are oblivious to [...]
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An alarming trend has been indentified by our Partner, Palo Alto Networks, in their Applications Usage and Risks Report: browser based file sharing has overtaken the use of client specific Peer 2 Peer applications for the first time.
So what?
Well its simple, if today you detect and remove the use of file-sharing software within your business [...]
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IDC have reported that by 2013 it expects an 18% increase in the number of personal mobile phones used for business. In terms of actual devices this amounts to a staggering 57 Million mobile devices. And if IDC are correct, just think of all those expense claims; all those hours tagging your business calls and [...]
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There are lots of papers, blogs and videos amplifying the challenge of the coming wave of Generation Y people, but I thought the video below communicates this better than most. For those that don’t know, the Y Generation, or those born between the years 1982 and 2001, have been dubbed the “Net Generation” and have [...]
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In a recent application survey of 200 Enterprises it was found that Twitter was used in 89% of companies monitored, up from 35% in Spring 2009, making it more popular than Instant Messenger. Amazingly the 250% increment of Twitter resulted in a 775% increase on bandwidth. The march of Social Networking applications into the [...]
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Today the consumer is more likely to air their grievances on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and their Blogs before making an actual complaint to the retailer, but only the Web 2.0 savvy retailers are listening.
According to Brand Reputation, over 80% of surveyed consumers are more likely to look for online reviews than [...]
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Time and time again CIOs and IT managers we speak to claim they believe that Social Networking and Web 2.0 applications deliver their business value but when further interrogated they cant quantify this. But the amusing point is… they comment that their corporate security policy prevents access to these anyway, but they know the employee [...]
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