A Day in the Life of a Cyber Vicitm

by Alan Wlasuk of 403 Web Security A big anniversary weekend in the city — pack the kid off to grandma’s, drive into town, park at the new fancy hotel and check-in. Dinner at the high end Italian restaurant next door, a concert with George Winston, drinks that evening at a jazz bar. Then, end…

Trend Micro Warns IT on Social Networking

The popularity of consumer social-networking services like Facebook and Twitter has spilled over into the workplace, bringing potentially dire consequences, warns Trend Micro. As part of its corporate end-user study released Monday, the IT security firm found that the use of social-networking sites in the workplace grew from 19 percent in 2008 to 24 percent…

Most Email Still Spam

PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware analysis and detection laboratory, today announced that less than six percent of emails that reached companies in the third quarter of 2008 were legitimate correspondence. Moreover, 1.43% of emails contained malware. The data, extracted from a sample of more than 123 million emails, found the most frequently detected strains of malware…