Helping You Use Information Technology Productively
Can technology make you less safe from cyber-threats? I mentioned before that too much technology can be detrimental to your information security goals. In the insurance industry, there is something called moral hazard. Moral hazard is where an … [Read more]
When IT departments work at securing their environment, they set about installing firewalls, implementing email gateways and web filtering, securing their computers and servers, and some go the extra distance to secure their networking equipment, … [Read more]
The Zeus trojan has undergone another version change and is now targeting small to medium businesses (SMB or SME), according to this article by Information Week. Zeus is a malicious software application (termed malware) that is designed to steal … [Read more]
Today Trend Micro, working jointly with the Organization of American States (OAS), released a study outlining the current state of cybersecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study, while not eye opening – many of the risks have been known … [Read more]
Over the past 3-4 days there has been a widespread, distributed attack on Wordpress sites according to this article by TechCrunch. The attacks use bots to attempt a brute force attack on Wordpress installations using the default "admin" username … [Read more]
If you were to take a look at the two, you would find similarities between IT security and the insurance industry. Maybe we should take a moment to look at that. The insurance industry is based on risk and a person purchasing insurance does so … [Read more]