Beware of who joins your social network

Although the ability to share information and multimedia files are among social networking sites’ greatest strengths, hackers see these assets as new vectors to attack unsuspecting users.

Wipro makes a pitch for security co-sourcing

It avoids the dangers of outsourcing and increases the clients’ control over sensitive data, says Wipro Infotech.

Indian firms wake up to disaster recovery norms

Sadly though, many firms still do not accord the due importance to DR and put their operations at peril.

The five top areas of cyber security concern

Data would remain the prime target for cyber crimes in 2009 as well, says the report.

US moots privacy survey to counter terrorism

Poor-quality data are a major concern in protecting privacy because inaccuracies may cause data-mining algorithms to identify innocent people as threats.

Satyam denies World Bank ban on offshoring

The news article cites misinformation from unattributed sources and leaked e-mails that are taken out of context.

Breach of trust, the Chinese model

a Chinese messaging and voice-over-IP client that uses the Skype protocol logs chat conversations based on certain keywords.

Outsourcing aids data thefts, says Verizon

The reliance on external sources to complete credit-card process and other IT-related functions by brick and mortar companies is a prime factor behind customer data thefts

Data theft more common in India, China

Enterprises in emerging countries, where IT adoption is at a nascent stage, are more prone to loss of sensitive information due to flouting of company rules by employees

Apple, Cisco delivers patches to fix security bugs

Some of the security flaws could allow an attacker to execute malicious programs using remote exploits.

Maximum cyber attacks from US and China

Leading Saas provider Secureworks has come out with a survey of locations of computers from which maximum cyber attacks were attempted in 2008.

Social networking sites are new phishing targets

Spam and phishing are now a matured underground economy with specialised production and provisioning, outsourcing, multi-variate pricing and flexible models.