Not long ago WebSense announce that they received some great accolades from SC Magazine for their WebSense Express. Of course this is just one of many awards they have earned.
The SC Magazine review reports that “Websense Express shows that small businesses on a tight budget no longer have to rely on scaled-down Web-content filtering solutions… [...]

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Cyber Crime has become more profitable than selling drugs! David DeWalt, on the McAfee Insights blog, talked about his recent speech where he quoted Reuters and CNN statistics that say worldwide cybercrime ‘market value’ has eclipsed the illegal drug ‘market value’.
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Sell Spam and not Drugs?
That is one of my favorite quotes, [...]

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Phishers today are targeting the IRS with a large phish attack. So far it is spread over 25 domains. The phish offers victims $109.30 refund directly to their credit card for filling in an online form. How convenient!
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Do not fall for Phishing Spam Scams
This is a great article written by Chris [...]

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Michael Dolan, a phisher who targeted AOL over the course of five years recently pleaded guilty to two criminal counts that the U.S. attorney’s office brought against him. The first count was a conspiracy to…
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Small Phisher is fried
Zulfikar Ramzan of Symantec writes that when Dolan was found he had private identification [...]

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66% of enterprises have encryption, but only 16% have a strategy. Rarely if ever do you hear about encrypted customer records being lost, cracked and exploited. Clearly the problem is in execution. This is the classic case of having a home alarm, but not turning it on at night or when you are gone.
Why do [...]

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After the 9/11 attacks IT security quickly focused on disaster recovery as enterprises learned that data backup and recovery systems were paramount…However, recent events seem to be increasingly shifting the focus of IT security on data protection and, specifically on encryption [...]

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The Register reports that giant retailer TJX has allocated a total of $118 million to cover the costs and expected liability payouts resulting from the security breach of its customer databases. The long term security breach [...]

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If you received an email supposedly sent from Google offering free storage upgrades for your Gmail account, do not enter your Google Account credentials! The embedded link gmailupgrades.com redirects to a website that looks exactly like Gmail. If you entered your account info, change your password immediately.
Here is a very detailed explanation of the scam [...]

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Here is an example, albeit a poor one, of what Phishing is. It is email from a criminal trying to trick you into giving them information they can use to rip you off. I like this picture because it is a bad one and because it is bad you can see and understand what Phishing [...]

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According to Gartner, incidents of identity theft are increasing in the United States. Here are the stats: Approximately 15 million Americans were victims of fraud related to identity theft in the 12 months from August 2005 to August 2006, Gartner says, a more than 50% increase from the Federal Trade Commission’s estimate of 9.9 million [...]

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