Bank says application whitelisting is answer for AV blues

Connecticut River Bank stopped using anti-virus software in all its branches nearly a half decade ago, and it hasn’t had a single virus infection since then. Instead, the regional bank uses application whitelisting to lock down its workstations and keep harmful and unproductive software off the devices.

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Following the Money: Evolving Cybercrime Techniques and Targets

Online transactions offer great convenience to both vendors and customers alike. It provides a means to conduct transactions that are better suited to most users’ current lifestyle, which increasingly involves the Internet. Unfortunately, this increased dependency on online banking and e-commerce is directly proportional to cybercriminals’ interest on how to leverage this to their advantage. Recently [...]

From RSA 2011: Security, Social Media and Spies

Like my colleagues, I also attended RSA 2011 Conference in San Francisco last week. As they have shared in their posts on the hackers and threats sessions, I would like to share some of my experiences and learnings on sessions involving social media, spies and security. Mapping an Organization’s DNA Using Social Media Abhilash [...]

From RSA 2011: Mobile Security in Today’s Threat Landscape

One of the primary points raised in this year’s RSA Conference is that mobile threats are as real and pressing as other industry issues today. Amid heated discussions over cloud security, several sessions were spent on reviewing the threats to mobile security and on laying out concrete steps so we can defend our mobile lives. The Ugly [...]

Facebook Stalker Tracker Tool Turns Users into Spammers

Privacy has been one of the major concerns of Facebook users roday, especially as the social network continues to increasingly grow to become a massive directory of personal information. Users are becoming very concerned as to who can access the information they post, fearful that these may be viewed and used in a malicious way. Given this, stalkers—people [...]