April 9, 2016
Everyone is curious about your IT systems. They are being probed, prodded and profiled by people on the Internet all the time, which creates lots of traffic. Many of these events metastasize into incidents that may generate concern, and cause an alert. There can be hundreds or thousands of them each day, and your team’s […]
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April 1, 2016
The US government wants to improve the quality of open source software by making it easier to find vulnerabilities in it. The Department of Homeland Security hopes that better code reviews and bug bounties will help to reduce the security flaws in these projects, which are used extensively on the Internet by companies large and […]
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March 28, 2016
The world is full of foolish users who click on things without knowing better, but it is also filled with badly-designed products that don’t do a good enough job of warning them about the dangers they’re facing. How do we fix it? Studies over the years have told us what we instinctively knew – that […]
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March 17, 2016
Another day, another problem with antivirus software. Antivirus tools are designed to protect your computers, but events over the years suggest that they can end up causing their own problems. Antivirus firms have had their fair share of dramas, even over the last few months. In January, Trend Micro patched a security bug in its […]
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February 12, 2016
Oh, Canada! Fake IDs and stolen logins? Is that all you’re doing? Canadians might just be too polite for more violent forms of cybercrime. We’re involved in online crime to a certain extent, buying and selling stolen data and documents, but that’s where it tends to end for us. That’s the view of Christopher Budd, […]
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January 27, 2016
Get in on the ground floor Today is a big day for Black Arts Illuminated, SecTor’s parent company. Early bird registration for its new conference, IT Futures, opens today, in co-ordination with a brand new web site.IT Futures will give technology experts and businesspeople alike a unique view into emerging technologies, explaining how they will […]
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January 11, 2016
Most Canadian firms aren’t, according to industry figures. How much should your organization be spending on security? According to analyst figures, about 14% of the IT budget – but less than a quarter of companies are spending that much.Last year, IDC released a report analyzing Canadian companies’ security budgets to find out how much they […]
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December 30, 2015
Passwords aren’t secure. So what’s the alternative? Google is testing its own anti-password login mechanism using mobile phones as two-factor authentication (2FA) devices, following hard on the heels of Yahoo, whichlaunched a password-free login system for its users in October.Companies like these are offering new authentication mechanisms because passwords are a terrible way to authorize […]
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December 21, 2015
Not all insiders work at a desk in your company. Insider threats don’t always come from your office. Are you prepared to manage those that don’t?We all understand the classic insider threat: a malicious employee, perhaps disgruntled at being passed over for a promotion, may steal valuable data to sell on the open market or […]
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December 7, 2015
How do malware writers create and test their malicious code? They lurk all over the world, from basements to offices, trying to take down your machines from afar. Malware writers have produced some devious code, eluding anti-virus tools to get their programs on your machine. From there, they will send spam, serve up their illegal […]
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November 27, 2015
Consumer IoT devices are coming to your company, whether you want them or not. When it comes to technology, what finds its way into the home will eventually worm its way into the office. We saw it with social media, mobile devices, and cloud file sharing services, all of which the IT department now has […]
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