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SANS is reporting a targeted attack to a particular company.  This attack begins with email from a domain that closely resembles the company’s own domain, so that it appears as an internal email.  The attached Word file uses an undisclosed exploit to extract and execute a Trojan.  Another interesting bit is that it overwrites the […]

Mike Rothman posted an article on Skype and the need to control it in many environments.  His opinion is that will be very difficult to control it on the network side of thing and he recommends controlling at the endpoint.  I thought it would be a good time to bring out that SonicWALL is very […]

Keith Schultz of Infoworld has a good review of UTM appliances from Astaro, Fortinet, SonicWALL, and WatchGuard.  The encouraging thing is that all the devices operate very well.
The biggest distinction, in my opinion, is that only the SonicWALL and the ServGate allow for deep packet inspection through all types of traffic.  The other devices rely […]

The recent media coverage of Citibank debit card theft should really get retailers thinking. It appears that the theft came from a hack on OfficeMax.  It appears that the debit card PINs were stored somewhere along with the key to decrypt the PIN codes! This outlines two needs:

Every business needs a comprehensive security policy and […]

Bird-flu… you’re thinking? Here’s the situation. Let’s say there is an outbreak this fall. A pandemic could cause officials to begin quarantine or business owners may simply tell affected employees to stay home. If the outbreak is bad enough the in-office workforce reduction could significantly affect your ability to conduct business.
Is […]