viruses Archive
The Financial Times reports that it was 20 years ago this month that the first computer virus was discovered. As a plain English overview of the IT security threat and how it has escalated this article is hard to beat. …
Information security is supposed to be a business enabler. Information security is supposed to be a business issue, not a technology one. What this means is that, by ensuring the availability, confidentiality and integrity of information, organizations should be able …
Like I said before, as Firefox gains market share, so the Malevolency will start targeting it – they may be proof of concept viruses and Mozilla may have issued updates a bit quickly – but, rather like the browser some …
Wireless insecurity has been in the press during the last week – the Sunday Times (March 6, 2005) spoke of a ‘virus epidemic’ threatening to wipe mobiles’ memories, while SC Magazine and Computing both report the astonishing absence of security …
The US CERT web site started the year showing, on its summary of the most frequent, high-impact security incidents, eight exploits that are not all completely new. MyDoom, Bagle and Sasser are all names that are recognizable from 2004, Zafi …
2005 will be the year that more organizations crash and burn through inadequate information security and IT governance practices – more IT projects will go wrong, more malicious incidents, more organised crime frauds and some serious terror attacks, along with …
