London : Reacting to reports that Mitt Romney has had his email account hacked, the head of Lieberman Software has expressed his astonishment at the lapse of security judgement with the presumed Republican Party nominee for the US Presidency using Hotmail for his personal messages – if that is what happened.
Certificates exactly like the ones compromised as part of the Flame malware, are used everywhere in organisations worldwide today and are vulnerable to the exact same compromise. If organisations do not have an automated management system in place, the likelihood of a catastrophic event is very high. Also, when the event occurs, recovery and remediation will take a very long time. Just like you need to manage and keep software up to date, you need to do the same thing with certificates.
Mike Yaffe aims to help promote ISVA interests in North America
UK: The Information Security Vendors Association has appointed Mike Yaffe, Sr. Director of Product Marketing for Core Security, as its first board member and first senior representative for the ISVA in North America.
London: Commenting on a Ponemon Report showing that 72 per cent of consumers who have been notified of a data breach at a company they had dealt were dissatisfied with the communication, Varonis Systems says that this highlights the brutal fact that people are less likely to purchase or deal with an organization where their data has been lost due to a breach.
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