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Home   »   Archives for February 2013

Checking Identities in Social Network Friend Requests

  • Posted on:February 28, 2013
  • Posted in:Security
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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By Vic Hargrave If you’ve been on Facebook or other social networking services for any length of time you’ve probably received friend requests from people you don’t know at all. This can happen to you even if your Facebook information is only visible to your immediate friends. Some of those friends may have exposed their…

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Top 10 AWS Security Tips: #3 Build a Secure Base Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

  • Posted on:February 28, 2013
  • Posted in:Cloud
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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In our previous top tips for AWS security we looked at hardening access to your AWS resources through proper use of IAM, policies and authentication. In this tip we turn our focus to hardening your Amazon Machine Images (AMI). No matter whether you pronounce it A.M.I or Ahhh-ME (as the AWS folks do) your machine…

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Tags: AmazonAmazon EC2amazon machine imageamazon web servicesAMIAMI from AmazonauthenticationAWSAWS OpsWorksChefCloud SecurityCreating your own AMIhow to secure AWSiaasIAMmarketplacepoliciesPublic CloudPuppetRightScaleSecurity guidance for AMI developersSharing AMIs safelySysrep

Blockbuster hacks highlight collective vulnerability

  • Posted on:February 26, 2013
  • Posted in:Cybercrime, Privacy & Policy
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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As far as months go, February was a big one for data security. The Next Web pointed out in a story that there have been attack on major news companies like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, as well as big-time companies like Apple and Facebook.

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Tags: cybercrimePrivacy & Policy

New cloud means new policies, changes

  • Posted on:February 26, 2013
  • Posted in:Cloud Computing, Privacy & Policy
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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The adoption of cloud computing means a lot of positive things for businesses that do it correctly.

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Tags: cloud computingPrivacy & Policy

Retail top target for cybercriminals last year

  • Posted on:February 26, 2013
  • Posted in:Current News, Cybercrime
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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With a large amount of data, including names, social security numbers, payment information and more being saved by retailers across the world, it makes a fair amount of sense that cybercriminals would be looking to target these businesses more than others.

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Tags: Current Newscybercrime

Saving Mobile Memories

  • Posted on:February 25, 2013
  • Posted in:Mobility
  • Posted by:
    Richard Medugno
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By Shannon McCarty-Caplan Some people lose their phones, others have had them stolen.  I just break mine.  Not from dropping it in the toilet or breaking the screen, I somehow end up with mobile “lemons.”  I’ve replaced my phone four times in my two-year mobile contract period. My Droid X had several problems, several times. …

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I Love Saying “I Told You So”

  • Posted on:February 21, 2013
  • Posted in:Security
  • Posted by:
    Richard Medugno
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By Richard Medugno When I claim to be a psychic, my family and friends roll their eyes.  I’ve frequently heard the expression “even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile.”  That may be why I love saying, “I told you so” so much. Last fall, I wrote a blog titled: Mac Users…

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The Cloud’s Shared Risk Model

  • Posted on:February 21, 2013
  • Posted in:Cloud
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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People who drive recklessly to the airport, at a high rate of speed while clutching a cellphone to their ear, only to then board the plane and pray it does not crash, often bewilder me. Don’t they realize they bear some responsibility for arriving safely at their destination? Trend Micro’s webinar on the new PCI…

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Tags: access controlAmazonAmazon EC2amazon web servicesAWSaws securitycloudCloud Securityhow to secure AWSidentity managementPublic Cloudsecurity modelshared responsiblityshared risk

PCI Council issues new guidelines for the cloud

  • Posted on:February 21, 2013
  • Posted in:Cloud Computing, Current News
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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The PCI Council rolled out some new guidelines on cloud security when dealing with credit card and payment information and said dealing with introspection may be the big issue that companies will have to worry about.

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Tags: cloud computingCloud SecurityCurrent News

New app could make texts, phone calls completely private

  • Posted on:February 20, 2013
  • Posted in:Current News, Privacy & Policy
  • Posted by:
    Trend Micro
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Striving for data security, researchers and cryptographers have been diligently working to figure out how information can be guarded as well as possible. Slate reports on one company that has been keeping its project something of a secret since October 2012.

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Tags: Current NewsPrivacy & Policy
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