INFORMATION SECURITY TIP Change your passwords every other month! Lists containing tens of thousands of stolen email account usernames and passwords have shown up online over the past few days in what researchers say likely came out of multiple phishing attacks. Read more
| ALERTS New phishing attacks are circulating using text messages and automated phone messages to collect account information. Card holders from banks and credit unions are being prompted to call a phone number and enter their personal and account information to reactivate their account. Never give any personal or account information to an unauthorized communication. Financial institutions will never use text messages or automated phone messages to contact their members. Read more
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Perimeter eSecurity Garners 5 Star Product Review from SC Magazine Leading IT security industry publication assigns top rating to company's firewall and intrusion prevention service in all categories Read more Check out the latest blog topics. Read more  | PRODUCT UPDATES New Services / Enhancements Perimeter eSecurity's Product team is always working to improve services and enhance our customers' experience. Stay tuned each month to see updates on the services that you already subscribe to or might otherwise need as a part of your complete security solution! Read more | KNOWLEDGE CENTER Hear what our Experts have to say about pressing information security issues... Read more | SPECIAL OFFERS Webcast Replay Did you miss our presentation on Pandemics and maintaining business continuity? LISTEN NOW: - Pandemics in recent history
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LISTEN NOW | | | INDUSTRY NEWS  | Gartner Outlines Four Risk Management Mistakes That Could Threaten Security Budgets According to Gartner, Inc. Corporate security professionals face a complex situation as they work with highly constrained financial and staffing resources to manage and mitigate a rapidly changing and expanding risk environment. Read more
| Alleged mastermind behind Heartland, Hannaford's, and 7-11 breaches used SQL injection, sniffers, custom malware in attacks The attacks that led to the mass theft of over 130 million credit and debit card accounts may hold the record for the biggest overall breach ever charged in the U.S., but the attackers used classic and well-known methods that could have been thwarted, according to experts. Read more
| The U.S. government approves of cloud computing and believes that the cloud approach makes IT environments more flexible and secure One of the U.S. government's strongest advocates of cloud computing is also one of its most secretive operations: the Central Intelligence Agency. The CIA has adopted cloud computing in a big way. Read more
| BBC reports Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL and others targeted by 'industry-wide' attack Gmail was the target of what Google called a large-scale phishing campaign, the company told the BBC. "We recently became aware of an industry-wide phishing scheme through which hackers gained user credentials for Web-based mail accounts including Gmail accounts," a Google spokesperson told the news network. Read more
| What if you bought a new Wi-Fi access point today, and then discovered that it uses a 12-year old security technology that vendors have known since 2001 is dangerously insecure? Insane as it may sound, products like that are apparently still being sold. Online. Right now. Read more
| New Trojan Evades Banks' Anti-Fraud Systems A next-generation Trojan recently discovered pilfering online bank accounts around the world kicks it up a notch by avoiding any behavior that would trigger a fraud alert and forging the victim's bank statement to cover its tracks. Read more
| Couple Sues Bank Over Stolen Password A U.S. District Court ruling in a lawsuit against a bank over a hacked online account has raised thorny questions about who's ultimately responsible for the breach of a customer's account. Read more
| Up To 9 Percent Of Machines In An Enterprise Are Bot-Infected In a three-month study of more than 600 different botnets found having infiltrated enterprise networks. Read more
| Phishers go Web 2.0 by chatting it up with their online banking victims A new phishing attack discovered targeting a U.S. bank comes with a Web 2.0 twist: a pop-up chat session with the online banking customer Read more | Cost cutting measures put in place by banks in the wake of last year's financial crisis are leaving them, and their customers, vulnerable to criminal attack, according to a survey from Norkom Technologies Read more | One Hundred Linked to International Computer Hacking Ring Charged by United States and Egypt in Operation Phish Phry The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that uncovered a sophisticated "phishing" operation that fraudulently collected personal information from thousands of victims that was used to defraud American banks. Read more | SPOTLIGHT ON HOSTED EMAIL  | Increased Reliability Demands Drive 18% Growth in Email Hosting Service from Perimeter eSecurity USA.NET Recognized as Top Player in Hosted Business and Hosted Microsoft Exchange Email Markets by The Radicati Group for third consecutive report. Customers Including Belo Corp., Cheesecake Factory, UHY Advisors, Inc. and United Airlines continue to rely on Perimeter's Trusted Business Messaging Services. Read Now | | |