Archive for March, 2009
Data Encryption By UK Businesses Shows Slow Growth
by admin on Mar.20, 2009, under data security trends
SC magazine reports on a survey by Checkpoint regarding the growth and implementation of encryption technologies among UK businesses.
The results showed a small growth of just one percent since November 2007. Just under half of the survey participants said that they had implemented encryption and the rest without any level of data encryption.
Given the high profile data loss of public organisations over this period, the importance of data security seems to be of a lower priority perhaps when compared with the current financial and market issues facing many businesses.
Equally the implications for poor data security practices and the potential threat this poses to business is not well understood. As business moves into further reliance on data centric services vendors may see more reactionary responses to crisis rather than a proactive understanding from businesses.
Security Vendors Hacked
by admin on Mar.03, 2009, under data security, viruses and worms
Computer Weekly reports F-Secure, Kaspersky and BitDefender have been hacked via SQL injection and cross site scripting techniques.
Kaspersky is thought to have had a breach in its US website databases holding information like customer details. F-Secure was thought to have only leaked virus statistics.
Kaspersky reported that they had fixed the vulnerability within 1 hour of detection.
