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Month: May 2011

10 Biggest Data Breaches of 2011, So Far !

10 Biggest Data Breaches of 2011, So Far !

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Expedia’s Trip Adviser, email marketing provider Epsilon, Sony’s online entertainment services, professional engineering society Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. They all suffered some kind of a data breach in the first four months of 2011. At one point, it seemed like there was at least one new security breach being reported every week. The incidents listed above don’t include any health care data breaches, accidental information exposure like British Petroleum’s lost laptop or Texas State Comptroller’s office storing information…

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10 things you can do to conserve Internet bandwidth

10 things you can do to conserve Internet bandwidth

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As organizations move more and more services to the cloud, it is becoming increasingly important to make efficient use of the available Internet bandwidth. Here are a few techniques you can use to conserve Internet bandwidth in your own organization.   1: Block access to content-streaming Web sites If your organization allows employees to use the Internet for personal use, the first thing you should do is block access to streaming media sites, such as Netflix, YouTube, and MetaCafe. Playing…

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More Banking Malware to Hit the Web

More Banking Malware to Hit the Web

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The source code for the Zeus banking Trojan has been leaked on the Internet, which will allow pretty much anyone interested in crafting a malware attack to do so, provided they know where to look. The complete source code for the Zeus malware kit is being freely distributed as a ZIP file on several underground forums. Zeus, also known as Zbot, is one of the most advanced pieces of malware currently active and is commonly used to steal money from…

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10 Sysinternals utilities to have

10 Sysinternals utilities to have

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#1 DiskMon This utility looks at all of your hard disk traffic and reports it to the screen. When the window is displayed, the default is to auto scroll the data constantly filling the window as you use your PC. If you minimize the application to the tray (Options | Minimize to tray disk light) DiskMon will blink as it monitors traffic. I found it quite interesting to see just how many reads and writes my laptop processed just working…

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