Do you know where your company data is? If so, you’re doing better than two-thirds (67 percent) of respondents to a new survey from Varonis Systems Inc., a data governance software provider. Attendees from over 400 companies attending EMC World in May say their organization’s senior managers either “don’t know where all company data resides or are not sure.” Nearly three-quarters (74 percent) of organizations admit that they don’t have a tracking process so they know which files reside on third-party “cloud digital collaboration and storage services.”
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Codenomicon, a security solutions provider, has issued a warning to consumers about “the poor stability of name-brand smart TVs” from six manufacturers. The report, Smart TV Hacking: Crash Testing Your Home Entertainment, doesn’t disclose the manufacturer’s names and models tested “to protect users of those devises.”
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According to Symantec, printers around the globe have become infected.
Over the past two weeks, an outbreak of Trojan.Milicenso has resulted in multiple reports of massive print jobs being sent to print servers, printing garbage characters until the printer runs out of paper. Our telemetry data has shown the worst hit regions were the US and India followed by regions in Europe and South America. We originally encountered Trojan.Milicenso in 2010 and our initial investigation had shown that this was basically a malware delivery vehicle for hire. The payload that is most commonly associated with this latest version is Adware.Eorezo; an adware targeting French speaking users.
The company says its analysis of this "printer bomb" threat’s ultimate goal "is ongoing." The vulnerability "leverages [the] adware component as a decoy and a signed digital certificate."
Read the rest of Symantec's report here: Trojan.Milicenso: A Paper Salesman’s Dream Come True
-- James E. Powell
Editorial Director, ESJ
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SMBs need to be more vigilant about file sharing. Symantec Corp., in a new report, says that as online file sharing grows at small and midsize enterprises, so, too, are the risks.
The company’s 2011 SMB File Sharing Survey notes that
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A new study conducted by InSites Consulting reveals that eight out of ten American companies are present on Facebook, a higher usage rate than comparable enterprises in Europe. In addition, 45 percent have a Twitter account, 48 percent are available on LinkedIn, and 31 percent are using YouTube.
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If you’re like the 500 IT professionals SecurEnvoy interviewed at the Infosecurity Europe 2012 conference, you’re more likely to be concerned about losing your mobile phone than the contents of your wallet.
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What’s filling up your inbox? As you probably suspect, it’s mostly junk. Not necessarily junk mail -- just “non-essential” communication.
In survey results released today by Mimecast, only one in every three e-mail messages in your business inbox has any “real, immediate value.” If you’re like those surveyed, only a quarter of your inbox contains e-mail you consider “essential for work purposes,” and you consider another 14 percent of your inbox as being “of critical importance.”
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Prolexic Technologies, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection service, has released a threat advisory on the HTTP unbearable load king (HULK) denial of service (DoS) script that has many security administrators panicking.
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