After a long hiatus, I’m back. Christmas was great, and New Years is upon us. The forces of evil have been busy, and, of course, they never take a vacation or a holiday. So, let’s see what’s been going on…
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140390-c,hackers/article.html
From SearchSecurity.com, the use of botnets to produce spam. 61% of all email is spam? 90% of all mail emanating from some countries is spam? That’s crazy! A brief primer on becoming part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
BankInfoSecurity.com has the 10 most important security stories in finance in 2007. The folks at TJX are there, of course, with their data breach now estimated to be 100 million credit card number and info. New guidelines and regulations also made the list as well.
What a surprise! CIO Magazine writes that insider threats still remain a security problem. Do ya’ think? 35% of employees report circumventing company security policies just to get their job done… that’s a problem on a couple of levels.
http://www.cio.com/article/164552/Survey_Says_Insider_Threat_Remains_a_Serious_Security_Problem
A couple of very solid articles from SCMagazine will end this final post of 2007. The first is eight “New Years Resolutions” that one should make to ensure information security in the coming year.
http://www.scmagazineus.com/Eight-New-Years-security-resolutions-for-2008/article/100045/
A guide from Microsoft designed to help Office administrators secure Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
