Posted inData Protection
List of Disk wipe software
People and organizations dispose of their computers including the Hard drives when no more needed or considering that they are obsolete. The media such as hard drives, USB etc when…
Posted inPCI DSS Compliance
Profiling a Vendor of Visa/MasterCard Plastics and Holograms
The cardholder data breach is not a new thing. It is been a nightmare for every CIO in the world. Dancho Danchev's blog has an interesting article on how these…
Posted inCloud Security
Cloud Computing = Low cost? Check again.
It is been considered that the cloud computing solutions reduces the cost of computing resources as far as organization is concerned. However, a recent white paper from ISACA indicates that…
Posted inCyber Attacks
Malware attack at Saudi Aramco
In the recent past, Middle Eastern companies are becoming a frequent target of attackers. Malware attack at the Saudi Aramco oil company is the latest in these series. News sources…
Posted inInformation Security Leadership
Critical Infrastructure system security in India
The recent power outage in the northern parts of India was part of a grid failure. However, it could have been a result of security failure as well. The security…
Posted inCloud Security
Cloud Computing and Enterprise risk management
The number of organizations adopting clouding computing increases day by day. The COSO has published a thought paper on Enterprise Risk Management for Cloud Computing. In this paper, it provide…
Posted inSecurity Tools
Backtrack 5 R3 is available for download
Backtrack developers had released a new version of the backtrack penetration testing live CD / VMware version yesterday. This version adds a number of tools in addition to the bugfixes,…
Posted inIncident Management NIST
NIST Computer Security Incident Handling Guide
NIST has published the final version of their guide on Computer Security Incident Handling. This guide is built based on the best practices adopted by governments, other non-commercial organizations and…
Posted inCyber Attacks
Flame. the 3rd known cyber weapon grade malware
Kaspersky Labs announced its new finding on the cyber warfare space, FLAME, indicating that the cyberwar landscape is taking new dimensions. The new malware named Flame is located in the…
Posted inSecurity Tools
Free Firewall from Checkpoint
Checkpoint is getting into the Free Antivirus game by offering its ZoneAlarm antivirus software as a free consumer product for the first time, adding the company's no-cost firewall to the…