Cloud increasingly being used by cyber criminals

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• Cloud increasingly being used by cyber criminals
• Top Secret! Keep Your E-Mail Private and Secure
• Downloads to Lighten Your Laptop
• ICSA seeks to establish tests of endpoint security products
• WikiLeaks is not the actual problem
• Significant distinctions in mobile management and security
• Cloud can enhance privacy: Commissioner
• Ransomware rears ugly head, demands $120 to unlock files

Cloud increasingly being used by cyber criminals Posted: 01 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST By way of example, O'Connor said cyber criminals could use the Cloud to secretly store and distribute child abuse material for commercial purposes.

Top Secret! Keep Your E-Mail Private and Secure Posted: 01 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST E-mail is one of the most widely used forms of communication today. Estimates from May 2009 suggest that around 250 billion--with a "B"--e-mails are sent every day. That equates to more than 2.8 million e-mail messages per second, and some of them are not even spam.

Downloads to Lighten Your Laptop Posted: 01 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST If you have a laptop, you have instant computing wherever you are. Using a laptop means that you can always stay connected, keeping work and entertainment near at hand. Unfortunately, using a laptop also means that you have big problems, largely relating to security: As the recently released hacking tool Firesheep makes clear, every time you open your laptop and connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot, you're in danger of having your identity stolen.

ICSA seeks to establish tests of endpoint security products Posted: 01 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST ICSA Labs is seeking industry input as it creates test criteria for endpoint security products that will ultimately be used to certify whether the products are up to par.

WikiLeaks is not the actual problem Posted: 01 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST Another day, another quarter of a million confidential government documents released via WikiLeaks.

Significant distinctions in mobile management and security Posted: 01 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST So what do we do? How can we protect our resources yet still enable business and stay compliant? Well if you like hanging out at a place called jail, do nothing. But as most of us would prefer a life outside of prison, you need to not just manage but secure these devices. But how can we do that?

Cloud can enhance privacy: Commissioner Posted: 01 Dec 2010 08:00 AM PST Cloud computing can enhance the privacy of Australian enterprises, the Australian Privacy Commissioner has claimed.

Ransomware rears ugly head, demands $120 to unlock files Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:00 AM PST Ransomware is making a comeback, plaguing users with extortion demands of up to $120 to return documents or drives to their control, security experts said today.

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