Control Risks will launch the Nigeria Election Watch on 18 October, 2010. The NEW is a new service for clients providing in-depth coverage and analysis of the key issues investors need to be aware of in the run-up to, during, and in the aftermath of, the elections.
While some of the technical underpinnings that make up the Cloud’s ‘secret sauce’, are relatively recent innovations, the business case for managing critical IT functions as services – inside or outside the firewall - is not a new concept. At the end of the day, the Cloud is just another way to outsource IT functions, and the same fundamental concerns that exist with more mature outsourcing offerings need to be addressed – such as, how does an organization manage its security and compliance posture when critical systems and data are hosted or managed by a third party?
Noa Bar-Yosef, Imperva’s Senior Security Strategist provides insight into how the Zeus scam, which has resulted in over 70 arrests, may have operated, while Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer's CEO thinks more Zeus gangs operate globally.
The ZeuS malware is coming of age and the infections are going to get a lot worse says Trusteer, the secure browsing services specialist. ZeuS malware has already been pushed extensively to users of Web 2.0 and/or social networking sites plus services such as Facebook, Twitter and, most recently, to users of the business social networking site, LinkedIn. Malware is also being modified by cybercriminals using coding toolkits to attack smartphone users. Recent postings by our IT security colleagues at S21sec about ZeuS targeting smartphone users are just the tip of the iceberg when considering the potential of these attacks.
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