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Deciding Between Vulnerability Scanning And Penetration Testing

Michelle Drolet

My clients often confuse scanning and penetration testing. Organisations should be conducting both external vulnerability scans and penetration tests. If you are storing or transmitting data on the Internet, particularly sensitive data such as credit card details, then quarterly scanning is required to validate your PCI compliance. You also need to conduct a penetration test

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Reminder: Please join us at the Information Security Summit 2014

Michelle Drolet

Please save the date and plan to  join us for this timely forum on what you need to know about the latest security issues, threats, and technologies that will help you protect your business! May 29, 2014  8:00AM – 1:00PM MassBay Community College 50 Oakland Street  | Wellesley Hills, MA 02481 Early Bird Special: $35

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Data Security Review Issue 2: Know the Threats

Michelle Drolet

Welcome to Issue 2 of the Data Security Review It seems that every time you turn around there is a new data security threat in the news, like Cryptolocker and Heartbleed. Our customers are always asking us how to identify the next “big” threat. Our answer is that you cannot keep up with the hackers,

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Towerwall Heartbleed Vulnerability Alert

Michelle Drolet

Good Afternoon: The IT infrastructure your organization may use for day-to-day business may be vulnerable because of the Heartbleed vulnerability. Sophos a Towerwall partner has prepared a podcast of the Heartbleed vulnerability, which addresses who is likely affected, workarounds and an offer to help determine if you are vulnerable. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/04/10/sscc-142-heartbleed-explained-patches-evaluated-apple-chastised-podcast/ If you think you may

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Towerwall Information Security/Malware Alert Vol 13.67 – Notorious "Gameover" malware gets itself a kernel-mode rootkit…

Michelle Drolet

Zeus, also known as Zbot, is a malware family that we have written about many times on Naked Security. We’ve covered it as plain old Zbot. We’ve covered the Citadel variant, which appeared when the original Zbot code was leaked online. We’ve even written about the time it pretended to be a Microsoft fix for CryptoLocker, a completely different

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Internet Explorer, .NET, IPv6 and Shockwave top the February 2014 Patch Tuesday list

Michelle Drolet

For today’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released seven bulletins (a surprise after only announcing five last week) and Adobe released one. There are four critical advisories, to me the most important of which is MS14-010 affecting Internet Explorer versions 6 through 10. This patch fixes 24 vulnerabilities, one of which has been publicly disclosed. Considering that

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Why wasn’t healthcare.gov security properly tested?

Michelle Drolet

When the healthcare.gov website was launched on Oct. 1 it didn’t take long for technical issues to hit the headlines. Americans trying to register for health care found the website unusable. There were glitches, extremely long loading times, and serious errors, but most worrying of all for anyone entrusting sensitive data to the system was the lack

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Introducing our Quarterly Newsletter: the Data Security Review

Michelle Drolet

I am excited to announce the launch of our quarterly newsletter, the Data Security Review. Each quarter I will be sharing with you what I am hearing from customers, colleagues and data security experts to keep you aware and protected. As we enter 2014, human risk is on everyone’s mind. Even with the most sophisticated

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Please join us at the Information Security Summit 2014

Michelle Drolet

Please save the date and plan to  join us for this timely forum on what you need to know about the latest security issues, threats, and technologies that will help you protect your business! May 29, 2014  8:00AM – 1:00PM MassBay Community College 50 Oakland Street  | Wellesley Hills, MA 02481 Early Bird Special: $35

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Towerwall Security Patch Alert Vol 13.63

Michelle Drolet

Patch Tuesday January 2014 – Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle by Chester Wisniewski As expected Microsoft delivered four patches on patch Tuesday covering Windows XP, 2003, 7, 2008 R2, Word and Dynamics. All four patches are rated important, the first time in memory that none of the fixes were critical. The Word fix applies to all

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