Focus Area: Current threats

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Trust Your Third-Party Applications? Think Again….

Michelle Drolet

Don’t assume those third-party apps you buy are fully secure. Despite the promise of cloud computing, companies are still buying software. And it is more cost effective to buy an application and plug it into your system than it is to develop anew. How many third-party applications has your company bought off the shelf? How

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Towerwall is proud to be named a Trend Micro Platinum Partner

Michelle Drolet

Towerwall is proud to be named a Trend Micro Platinum Partner . Towerwall has aligned itself with industry-leading security application and policy management solution providers. These strategic relationships enable Towerwall to offer its customers an integrated approach to solving their security and policy management needs by coupling best-of-breed technology with top-notch integration services. To learn more about

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Fake PayPal Emails Distributing Malware

Michelle Drolet

Everyday there is a new threat with seemingly innocent emails being sent out that look close to an official correspondence from a company, from Paypal, ADP and BBB – to name a few. Cybercriminals are mimicking the online payment processor PayPal in a malicious spam campaign that attempts to dupe customers into downloading malware from

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Top 10 PHP Security Vulnerabilities

Michelle Drolet

Security is not a list of things you do. Security is a way of thinking, a way of looking at things, a way of dealing with the world that says “I don’t know how they’ll do it, but I know they’re going to try to screw me” and then, rather than dissolving into an existential

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Dealing with Phishing Messages

Michelle Drolet

According to the article in Dark Reading,  Study: Phishing Messages Elude Filters, Frequently Hit Untrained Users, many people are still being tripped up by phishing emails. The article summarizes the findings of a survey that was conducted at the Black Hat USA security conference held in July 2012. Of the 250 conference attendees that were polled,

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Introducing Towerwall’s VOIP Assessment Services

Michelle Drolet

Towerwall is proud to offer our new VOIP Assessment Services. Do you know if your VoIP phones and servers are segmented from the rest of your network? Even if they are, segmentation alone may not protect your voice assets. Towerwall, Inc. has developed an approach that is extremely effective in testing the security of VoIP

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Introducing Towerwall’s Threat Spotlight

Michelle Drolet

We are proud to announce our Threat Spotlight, sign up for our Twitter feed and get the latest threats and how to protect against them. Threat Spotlights as of October 15, 2012:   AutoInf AutoInf is a component used by many malware families, notably Conficker, Sality and AutoRun. AutoInf is used to automatically run associated

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BYOD means Bring Your Own Dilemma

Michelle Drolet

It’s becoming more and more common for workers to store work-related documents on their smartphones, tablet computers and other devices they bring to and from work each day. While this can be convenient–employees can access important documents at home or on the road–it also creates greater security risks for businesses. Employees’ Devices May Not Be

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New Internet Explorer zero day being exploited in the wild

Michelle Drolet

After the last zero day exploit on Java we reported some weeks ago it appears that a new 0day has been found in Internet Explorer by the same authors that created the Java one. Yesterday, Eric Romang reported the findings of a new exploit code on the same server that the Java 0day was found some

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Microsoft Windows Update emails try to steal your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL passwords…

Michelle Drolet

Beware any emails which claim to come from privacy@microsoft.com – it could be that you’re being targeted in an attack designed to steal your AOL, Gmail, Yahoo or Windows Live password. At first glance, if you don’t look too carefully, the emails entitled “Microsoft Windows Update” may appear harmless enough. But the grammatical errors and

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