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Untagged  March 25, 2009
The Perimeter Blog Has MOVED! by Jon Thomas Comment (0)

Thank you all for reading our blog!  We have moved our blog over to a new platform which allows us to serve our blog readers much more efficiently and effectively.  

The you can follow our blog at: http://security.perimeterusa.com

Note - we will no longer be posting to this blog, so if you have subscribed to our RSS feed here, you'll need to re-subscribe at our new blog.  Thank you again for

Identity Theft March 22, 2009
Facebook Worm by Kevin Prince Comment (0)

In a previous post I discussed how social networking sites can be used to commit identity theft.  Koobface is a new worm that makes this easier for criminals and compromises your system allowing remote command and control.  It effectively makes your system a zombie within a botnet. 

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nf/20090305/tc_nf/65095

As I mentioned before, care should be taken on what kind of

Network SecurityInternal Threat March 19, 2009
Should employees be allowed to use GoToMyPC from home? by Kevin Prince Comment (5)

After a recent webinar on top threats, someone send me the following email

Kevin,   I was just online with your threat vulneability webnair and found it very interesting.  You gave some good information and in a great way.  But I did have one question that came to mind after the presentation if I could ask it.  What is your feeling on how secure GoToMyPC and LogMeIn and the such is for people

PatchIdentity TheftExternal Threat March 16, 2009
Patch Availability At Time of Breach by Kevin Prince Comment (0)

In a previous post, I wrote about why hackers use old vulnerabilities to compromise networks. 

http://www.perimeterusa.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Why-hackers-use-old-vulnerabilities-to-exploit-systems.html&Itemid=373

Now there is a data breach study out by Cybertrust that illustrates this point even more.  In their 2008 Data Breach study of 500 incidents, they say that more than 70 of

Web Content FilteringInternal Threat March 12, 2009
Bypassing Web Content Filtering Systems by Kevin Prince Comment (0)

If you don't know how to bypass a web content filtering (WCF) system, as the next teenager that you see.  WCF systems are used to block or filter where employees go on the Internet.  WCF programs are a great way for employers to increase productivity, reduce liability, save bandwidth, and best of all keep malware off systems...when it is used.  There have always been ways that sophisticated end

Theft March 08, 2009
Class-Action Lawsuits as a result of data security breaches by Kevin Prince Comment (0)

There is a very interesting blog post at http://www.atthebreach.com/blog/data-breach-class-action-lawsuit/.  It talks about something I have discussed before.  If you have a data security breach, the circumstances don't seem to matter much.  The liklihood of getting sued is high.  The average cost of a data security breach is already 6.6 million and I don't think that includes the cost of

Network SecurityIdentity Theft March 05, 2009
Rough Quarter for Univ. of Florida Gainesville by Kevin Prince Comment (0)

University of Florida Gainsville has had 3 data security breaches in the last 3 months.  Two out of the three had to do with insider error.  The third was an intrusion.  The first one exposed nearly 100,000 records online.  The second was was a configuration error which exposed 100 records.  The third was an intrusion that compromised 330,000 records.

 This shows how you cant look at security with

Untagged  March 02, 2009
Why hackers use old vulnerabilities to exploit systems by Kevin Prince Comment (1)

In a recent announcement from Websense, the American Society of Sydney Austrailia's website was found to be compromised and the malware attempted to exploit an Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerability CVE-2007-5659.  So why would hackers use a vulnerability discovered in 2007?  Simple answer...it works!

So many people rely on Microsoft's free patching service that they forget that it only patches

Network SecurityHealthcareEmployees February 25, 2009
P2P is a greater risk than theft of portable media by Kevin Prince Comment (0)

I wrote a blog post August of 2008 http://www.perimeterusa.com//index.php?option=com_myblog&show=P2P-Software-is-the-ultimate-Trojan.html&Itemid=373 that discussing the risks of P2P software. 

Dartmouth University just released a study that goes into this problem in much more depth.  They focus on heathcare organizations but this is true of any type of company.  The reason that healthcare is

TheftNetwork SecurityIdentity TheftExternal ThreatCredit UnionBanking February 23, 2009
9 Million Dollars Lost in Massive Coordinated ATM Scam by Kevin Prince Comment (0)

A very well coorindated attack using compromised RBS WorldPay breach data to create cloned cards were used to commit massive fraud.  100 cards were used at 130 ATMs in 49 cities to extract 9 million dollars in less than 1 hour. 

This is believed that the criminals used information extracted during the RBS WorldPay Breach that occured in 2008.  Financial institutions have to be very careful about

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