Nokia: We don't know why criminals want our old phones
April 21, 2009The mystery of why cybercriminals are offering thousands of dollars for a discontinued Nokia phone isn't getting any clearer.
Seagate announces new green desktop drives
April 21, 2009Seagate today announced a new family of lower-power desktop drives under its Barracuda line. The drives use 25% less power than standard 3.5-in. desktop drives.
Criminals pay top money for hackable Nokia phone
April 20, 2009Criminals are willing to pay thousands of euros for a discontinued Nokia mobile phone with a software problem that can be exploited to hack into online bank accounts, according to a fraud investigator in the Netherlands.
Five Ways To Survive a Data Breach Investigation
April 14, 2009Security experts say it all the time: If a company thinks it has suffered a data security breach, the key to getting at the truth unscathed is to have a response plan in place for what needs to be done and who needs to be in charge of certain tasks. And, as SANS Institute instructor Lenny Zeltser advised in CSOonline's recent How to Respond to an Unexpected IT Security Incident article, "ask lots and lots of questions" before making rash decisions.
Does Social Networking Require User Policy Changes?
April 14, 2009IT security administrators have had a fairly easy case to make against such social networking sites as Myspace in the past. Myspace in particular tends to be a place for the mostly personal, and some profiles are simply front companies for online mobsters and malware pushers. [Read more about the challenges faced by MySpace's CSO in Hemanshu Nigam: Mr. Safety for MySpace.]
PCI security rules may require reinforcements
April 13, 2009Growing ranks of critics are slamming the PCI security rules for not doing enough to protect payment card data, and even chief proponent Visa is working with banks and retailers to test controls that go beyond the ones in PCI.
Unforeseen Impact of the Economic Meltdown
April 9, 2009Without question, 2008 was an eventful year for major financial institutions, with massive losses, questions of solvency and, ultimately, government bailouts now totaling over a trillion dollars. The corporate fire sales, downsizing and mergers now commonplace in the financial industry are a cause for not only serious concern about the health of our economy, but also concerns relating to the security of personal and financial data. With companies being sold and mergers taking place, and on such tight deadlines, mistakes regarding the confidentiality and privacy of the data are likely being made every day. Significant risk is increasing for personally identifiable information entrusted to these firms.
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More Storage Security News
April 6, 2009View more Storage Security news and analysis from Computerworld.com
UTM Appliances: How to Choose 'Em and Use 'Em
April 6, 2009To protect networks and information against increasingly sophisticated threats, many organizations are deploying security in layers. Some are finding that an efficient way to do this is by using unified threat management (UTM) appliances.
Zetta offers cloud storage for the enterprise
April 6, 2009Zetta announces its cloud storage service offering, which is targeting companies that would want to store primary data on near-line disk without having to build out their own secondary-disk storage infrastructures.