Items Tagged with "Security Awareness"
Mobiles and Phishing – Why They're More Dangerous
June 14, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
SMiShing is a version of phishing in which scammers send text messages. The best protection from this scam is awareness. Once you understand how it works, you are better positioned to recognize mobile phishing, and how to avoid clicking links within emails or text messages and otherwise responding to such ruses...
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The FBI's Most Wanted Cyber Criminals
June 13, 2012 Added by:Headlines
While the objective of criminal elements largely remains the same, the ubiquity of the digital systems that pervade every aspect of our culture present a new set of challenges for law enforcement, and new breed of criminal. The following are the Federal Bureau of Investigations "most wanted" cyber crooks...
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Analysis of Passwords Dumped from LinkedIn
June 11, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
People put a lot of personal information on LinkedIn - their education and job experience, along with the groups that they belong to - treasure trove of information to Social Engineers. Of all the online social sites, LinkedIn users should really choose a long complex password to secure their account...
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How and Why to Alert Your Employees of the LinkedIn Breach
June 07, 2012 Added by:Jason Clark
Cyber security teams should send out an employee alert explaining why LinkedIn passwords need to be changed and best practices for doing so. You may not have direct IT control over individual LinkedIn accounts, but your communication may alleviate social engineering attacks on employees and your network...
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Security Awareness Training for Employees
June 07, 2012
Security awareness training can be a bit dull and boring, so we commonly try to come up with ways on how to make it a more engaging topic for our audience. But do we end up patronizing them with gimmicks and child-like messages?
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Should You Be Worried About the LinkedIn Breach?
June 06, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
People who rely on LinkedIn for professional networking keep a wealth of information stored on their profile pages. With news of a possible data breach exposing 6.5 million user passwords, LinkedIn users need to take steps to protect their personal data. Here are five tips we recommend you follow...
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Google's Worst Security Idea Ever
June 06, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Google announced that it will notify a subset of its Gmail customers if they're the victim of a State-sponsored attack. Google's advice is FUD-inducing for people who aren't targets and insufficient for those who are. I have to wonder what Google was thinking when it created this awful program...
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EU-US Cybersecurity Awareness Meeting in Brussels
June 06, 2012 Added by:Headlines
The event is organized by the European Commission in co-operation with ENISA and the US Department of Homeland Security. The objective of the event is to bring intermediaries together in order to establish a reinforcing momentum in awareness raising and dissemination effort on topics pertaining to information security...
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Infosec Subjectivity: No Black and White
June 04, 2012 Added by:Dave Shackleford
Overall, here’s the rub: There are almost no security absolutes. Aside from some obvious things like bad coding techniques, the use of WEP, hiring Ligatt Security to protect you, etc... Everything else is in information security the gray area...
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Cookies: Should We Really Like Them?
June 01, 2012 Added by:Ahmed Saleh
You should acknowledge that Cookies are widely used and can't really be avoided. If you wish to enjoy your internet surfing experience by navigating to “cookie creating websites” you should have a clear understanding of how cookies operate, and how to protect them from being abused...
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Five Things a Healthcare CIO Can Do to Improve Security
May 31, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
In a complex healthcare organization, large scale security awareness training is a hopeless waste of resources considering the increasing number of options that people have (Facebook, smartphones..) to cause damage to the business. Security awareness will lose every time it comes up against an iPad or Facebook...
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Segmenting Safe Zones in IPv6
May 24, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
IPv6 has created a vast address space and only portions are taken up by the typical allocations. A paid for, theme based, segmented and constrained IPv6 sub-network would provide users with some feeling of safety in an environment where that is not offered today...
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FBI Guidance on Avoiding Internet-Based Fraud
May 21, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Listed below are tips to protect your business, yourself and your family from various forms of Internet fraud. For information on the most common complaints and scams, see the annual reports of the Internet Crime Complaint Center a partnership of the FBI and the NWCCC...
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Logging: Opening Pandora's Box - Part 4 - Awareness
May 20, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Awareness is the ability to know, understand and react to various types of events in near-real-time in order to defend your enterprise. Whether you're defending it from performance failures, functionality failures, or security failures is dependent on the group you work in...
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Spring Cleaning Your PC
May 18, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
If your PC is bogged down with software and your desktop is jammed with icons and documents, then your PC is next to useless as a productivity tool. Even scarier is you have lost track of your files have sensitive information exposed. Follow these tips for a cleaner, faster machine...
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On Proper System Hardening
May 16, 2012
When a system or device has been properly hardened, all unnecessary bells and whistles are turned off, disabled, or simply ripped out, leaving only the bare minimum needed to run the service. This creates a much smaller surface area to attack...