In my last post, I mentioned a vulnerability affecting RuggedCom equipment. I should mention that RuggedCom has released a response to the vulnerability with specifics about models and software versions affected as well as possible mitigations. Here are a few issues to…
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The CFO of Francesca’s Holdings was an active tweeter and this cost him his job (Wall Street Journal). He ran afoul of rules and regulations that limit statements by officials of public companies. If this information leak was discovered, how…
With the mobile space interconnecting all of us, how do companies protect against their biggest liability? Their employees. Last week, a new Nielsen survey reported that over 50 percent of U.S. consumers own smartphones over older feature-based devices. So as…
The DHS is reporting on a massive campaign targeting natural gas infrastructure. So far it seems that little is known – so little that DHS has asked some companies to leave the malware in place so its behavior can be…
At a fundamental level all types of Security products—AV, HIPS, IDS, AWL, etc.—tap into the same activity streams: what data or resource is being accessed in what context. Techniques may vary—mini and legacy filters, SSDT patching, import/export table patching, and…
For anyone who has encrypted their files with the legacy version of the FileVault software, and since upgraded to OS X Lion 10.7.3, you could have presented plain text files containing all of your user logins to any additional user…
CISPA (Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) is a tricky animal to assess. With the bill passing in the House of Representatives and moving to a vote in the Senate, the privacy debate has changed. Perhaps it’s the fact that…
As the web becomes more social, so does its vulnerabilities. To offer some perspective, Facebook now has over 901 million active users, with the possibility of reaching 1 billion by years end – insane. Twitter also has approximately 130 million…
Anonymous. Largely one of the most popular hacktivist groups on the planet was regarded by IT professionals as the top threat to companies in our recent survey (report, INFOGRAPHIC). But really, does Anonymous pose a threat to most of us? Hardly….
There was a recent disclosure of an important OpenSSL vulnerability recently that’s gotten a lot of attention, and deservedly so. SSL is one important means of securing communications these days, for online banking and shopping, as well as web applications…
Chris Lord is the endpoint point man and resident software architect at Bit9 in Waltham where he leads the product teams developing security solutions for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms...
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Dan Brown is a Senior Security Researcher at Bit9, where he draws on a broadly based security research and software engineering background of 15 years to help develop and drive initiatives for new and existing products and to research ways emerging technologies can be applied to information security...
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Harry Sverdlove is Chief Technology Officer at Bit9 where he draws from nearly two decades of application design and analysis with industry-leading IT enterprises to add new layer of technical expertise and strategic vision to Bit9's portfolio of endpoint security solutions…
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Ian Poynter is Chief of Security for Bit9 Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. He has been active for more than 15 years in the technology industry, focusing on networking and human-compute interface…
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