Security theater is a phrase that gets tossed around a lot these days. Whether the topic is the TSA, PCI or receipt checks at the local wholesale club, there’s a general feeling that security has become about check boxes and feeling secure rather than genuinely securing something. The lethargy isn’t limited to just the security [...]
19
Aug
Spamhaus lowers the boom…
Spam counts going up? Users seeing less items in the junk-mail box? A noticeable decrease in the number of e-mail borne virus infections? If you’re using Spamhaus, you’ve probably noticed all these things and more lately. The recent inclusion of entire class b addresses on the lasso list has had a significant impact on spam [...]
26
Jul
Patch ‘em if you got ‘em…
There are few things that make a hacker happier than an unpatched system. If that unpatched system is a server, the delight rises to obscene levels. A production server running with outdated software represents one of the greatest risks to an organization, and yet this is one of the most prevalent issues facing companies today. [...]
05
Jul
The return of Octoshape
RiskAnalytics customers may have noticed an uptick in the detections of Octoshape starting around 1:00 this afternoon. It took a single page view to understand this sudden rise, the reading of the Casey Anthony verdict. We’ll leave the social commentary to other outlets, but this event served as a reminder to our clients that less [...]
29
Jun
But we have a firewall…..
For years, the firewall was considered the final word in information security. All too often, when organizations were questioned about the protection of data, the first and last answer was, “we have a firewall.” Of course, we now know the folly of that thinking. The firewall is a vital layer to any organizations defense, but [...]
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