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When we think about IT saboteurs, most of us picture a professional cyber-criminal or hacker bent on stealing confidential information or wreaking havoc. In both cases, the perpetrator is an outside party who breaches the data network of a company, institution, or government entity with malicious intent. The days of visiting a trusted website and expecting it to be safe are done and dusted. CompTia research finds big gap between perception and reality The rate and complexity at which exploits are being "weaponised" is rapidly increasing. World Intellectual Property Day (April 26 of each year) came and went; pundits and politicians all made their statements, countries and their counsels all presented their positions, international organizations implored their members to protect intellectual property and the creativity and innovation represented. Computer security expert Bruce Schneier took a swipe at a number of sacred cows of security including RFID tags, national ID cards and public CCTV security cameras in his keynote address to Linux.conf.au this morning. The looming November 11 Cyber Jihad attack against the West which surfaced in media reports last week is ‘more hype than reality’ according to the chief research officer at the SANS Technology Institute. Google and LinkedIn criticised for not protecting individuals' data. Cyber war games are now getting out of hand, with US government spinners being prepared to blame everything on the Chinese.
An overwhelming majority of Americans claim to feel safe online, according to a recent poll. The serial company founder and SC's CEO of the Year tells Paul Fisher why he knew all along that data-centric security was the future. Smaller than my hand. More intelligent than a mini-computer. Able to detonate bombs from remote locations. Look! It’s a camera. It’s an electronic organiser. It’s the “cell phone”! Microsoft acknowledged it postponed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because the upgrade can corrupt data in a point-of-sale software system. The Secure Enterprise 2.0 Forum, which looked at the advantages and security risks of Web 2.0 technology use in the enterprise, debuted today in New York. Security guru Bruce Schneider asked Infosec delegates to consider the psychology of security threats and their decision-making process.



Virtualisation is the new business reality. Forrester Research recently issued a report stating that 51 percent of North American companies have deployed or are testing virtualisation technology. Chip and PIN credit cards are hitting Australian shores. Negar Salek, demystifies the emerging secure payment technology and its potential benefits. The recent closing of Lockdown Networks, one of the early entrants in the crowded network access control (NAC) marketplace, should not come as a shock to anyone, according to analysts. Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a click-fraud trojan targeted to the online advertising networks of Google, Yahoo and Baidu.com, China's largest independent internet search engine. Security researchers at Symantec said that attackers are for the first time using a social networking site -- in this case, Google's Orkut -- to deliver a self-propagated trojan. The worm is infecting the computers of those on the buddy lists of Orkut users, according to Symantec.