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Financial controls could have prevented employee fraud
A scam has left a family-run company facing a financial crisis, following employee fraud. The ruse involved a trusted secretary at an insulation business in Blackpool who was jailed for 12 months after swindling her employers of £60,000 through bogus supplier payments and a payroll scam. The fraud was simple: the bookkeeper paid herself a massiv...
Carefully crafted security attacks confirm the development of a malicious economy
F-Secure's Data Security Wrap-up for the first six months of 2007 looks at the top security threats witnessed by the anti-virus provider from January to June of this year. During this period, the F-Secure Lab saw a steady flow of reports on a vast variety of data security threats. The underlying trend to note was the spread of malicious activ...
GE Security designs remote monitoring and alert system for Securitas alarms
Securitas wanted to offer their existing and future customers remote monitoring of their Alarm systems, so they approached GE Security to develop a new system with this capability. As GE’s lead partner for this technology, they defined the specifications together for a system which would include a key module to allow the monitoring of buildings in ...
SonicWALL acquires SSL VPN remote access company Aventail
SonicWALL, Inc. has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Aventail Corporation. Aventail is a Seattle-based, privately-held provider of SSL VPN remote access solutions, for approximately $25 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in July, 2007 and is subject to customary conditions. SonicWALL expects that t...
Beware of slow and quick viruses
When the Internet had only barely begun, the only way of spreading viruses was via floppy disks. This is a very slow means of propagation, particularly in comparison to the speed at which viruses spread nowadays. To get an idea, the infamous ‘Friday 13’ virus (whose name originates from the day in which it deleted all .exe files on computers) took ...
Half of all employees begin their new jobs using competitive information taken from their old jobs
New research from Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. shows that almost half of people would take useful information and data with them to their next job. It is unlikely that anyone would stop them as three quarters of companies, based on the recent survey, have no security in place to prevent information going out the door. Eighty five pe...
Sony launches four analogue mini-domes and two IP mini-domes
Sony has announced the expansion of its range of monitoring cameras with the introduction of four new analogue mini-dome cameras. The SSC-CD45P, SSC-CD49P, SSC-CD75P and SSC77P analogue cameras have been designed to capture clear, detailed images in a wide range of environments and different lighting conditions. Each of the new cameras ...
GFI partners with St. Bernard to offer web-filtering solutions to the SMB market
GFI Software has announced that it will be entering the web-filtering market following the signing of an alliance with St. Bernard Software, Inc. This means that GFI will be able to offer web-filtering solutions to the SMB market in the next release of GFI WebMonitor for ISA Server later this year. Through this agreement, St. Bernard will be pro...
Microsoft IIS Web server are twice as likely to be hosting malware
According to Google, Web servers running Microsoft's IIS Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malware as other site servers. High profile cases such as computer hardware giant ASUStek who recently had their web site compromised, created a situation where visitors the website may have been attacked simply by accessing the site ...
Security Of Corporate Data On Mobile Devices Is Declining
A recent survey conducted by Sybase iAnywhere shows that the majority of companies are still failing to encrypt company-sensitive information on mobile devices. 60% of IT professionals surveyed had sensitive business information, such as emails and passwords, stored on their mobile devices. Results from the same survey last year indicated that 62% ...
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