Kevin Haley

When it comes to Internet security, organizations shouldn’t feel like it’s only a matter of time before they suffer a catastrophe. But at the same time, it’s important to recognize that there is no single preventive measure that will guarantee safety from all attacks. Unfortunately, there are so

It was the best of posts, it was the worst of posts. My apologies to Charles Dickens, but it seems to be the best way to describe two themes I see on Facebook wall posts these days. Let me show you some of the worst ones first: Yes; these are scams. Posted as legitimate messaging on Fac

A while back, my wife was mugged and her purse and all its contents were stolen. When she told me, I had three questions: Are you alright? Did you cancel the credit cards and call a locksmith to change our locks? Did they get your phone? My third question was about her smartp

Here’s a money making idea: find some advertisers and tell them you can put their ads on billboards at half the going rate. You don't own any billboards? No problem, just go paste the ads over the ones on someone else's billboards. This idea has not really caught on in the real world

The number of smartphones connecting to the Internet now rivals the number of PCs doing the same. Smartphones within SMB environments are no exception.  Employees use these devices to surf the Web, check emails, access business critical applications and to overall be more productive. It’s really n

米国を襲った 9・11 同時多発テロから 10 年が経とうとする今、あの日から何もかもが変わったと言いたい気持ちは確かにあります。9・11 テロが多くの変化をもたらしたことは確かであり、セキュリティに関する考え方、セキュリティの運用、セキュリティにかける費用に変化があったことは疑いようもありません。 しかし、サイバーセキュリティに対しては大きな影響があったようには見えません。9/11 以来、物理的なセキュリティに対する懸念は強まりましたが、2001 年の時点ではコンピュータに由来する物理的な脅威など誰も見たことがなかったからです。しかしその後 10 年間に、インターネットセキュリ

名誉か不名誉かにかかわらず、ニュースの見出しを飾れば詐欺師の注目をひくものです。スパムや SEO ポイズニングを利用するマルウェア攻撃では、名誉、不名誉いずれかで有名になった人物が登場することが定番になっているので、最新の事件で一躍悪名をはせた人物を詐欺師が利用したとしても驚くには当たりません。Samir Patil 氏が火曜日の ブログ記事 で書いたように、カダフィの家族が 419 詐欺に登場するようになっています。考えてみれば、実際にナイジェリアの王族を知る者はほとんどいませんが、カダフィ大佐のことならたいていの人は耳にしたことがありますし、大佐がちょっとばかり窮地に陥っていて、逃

Famous or infamous, when you make news, the scammers pay attention. While we have come to expect the famous and infamous to show up in malware attacks that use spam and SEO poisoning, we shouldn’t be surprised when scammers leverage the spotlight that current events shine on the infamous. As Samir

  In 2004, Massachusetts Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy was refused an airline boarding pass by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on five different occasions. Despite being from one of the most famous families in American politics, not to mention being a U.S. Senator, he still app

  An increasing number of photo sharing and social networking sites have facial recognition software to help users identify and “tag” people in photos. I don’t have much use for this type of feature; for me looking at old photos is more about pleasant discoveries than efficient searches. But I