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Asia’s Public Sector Continues to Show Strong IT Growth
Regional and state government spending is growing faster than federal spending, creating new IT opportunities and challenges, says Springboard Research. Based on its market analysis, Springboard expects IT spending to be US.5 billion in 2007, with the market growing at a compound annual rate of 6.9% …
US Tops List of Spam-relaying Countries
Experts at SophosLabs shave revealed that the US relayed more spam than any other nation, over the third quarter of 2007, accounting for a massive 28.4 percent - meaning that almost one in three of all the world's spam emails is being sent through a compromised …
Chinese Hackers Targeting Government Networks in US, UK, Germany
Sophos is reminding businesses of the importance of properly securing their computer systems following news stories that have claimed Chinese hackers have targeted government networks in the United States, UK and Germany.The Financial Times has reported that the Chinese military are being blamed for a cyberattack …
Cost of Data Breach Set to Increase 20% Per Year
Financially motivated targeted attacks are getting more dominant and new vulnerabilities continue to occur, but 90 per cent of these attacks can be kept off without increasing security spending, according to Gartner. Nevertheless, ensuring one’s enterprise is not part of the 10 per cent that requires …
Beware Of Online Fantasy Games: Sophos
Sophos has urged online fantasy sports fans around the world to rethink their game strategies as league profiles could be used for targeted phishing attacks stemming from information posted on these sites.Research conducted by Sophos has discovered that players of online games like Fantasy Football often …
International Spammer Gang Cheated USD 20M off Stock Market Investors
IT security and control firm Sophos has welcomed news that four men have pleaded guilty to being part of an international gang that used spam to manipulate the stock market, raising more than USD 20 million from investors.According to the US Department of Justice, Michael Saquella …
Top Issues in Planning for Storage Infrastructure
IDC's end-user survey across the Asia-Pacific (excluding) Japan region in 2007 has identified the key issues that organisations face in planning their storage infrastructure. Security, disaster recovery, capacity, compliance and disk utilisation have been listed as some of the top issues. In addition, all IT managers …
Cyber Criminals Turn to Psychology
Cyber criminals use mindgames to lure Internet users to part with their data and financial information. A recently released study by a global security firm details the psychological games and other tactics cyber criminals use in social engineering scams propagated through junk email. In the study …
Fortinet Announces Top Reported Threats For May 2007
Fortinet has announced the top 10 most reported high-risk threats for May 2007. May 2007's top 10 threats, as determined by the degree of prevalence are: Rank Threat Name Threat Type % of Detections1 W32/Dialer.PZ!tr Dialer 9.662 W32/Bagle.DY@mm Mass mailer 7.433 W32/Netsky.P@mm Mass mailer 7.154 HTML/BankFraud.E!phish Phish 6.545 HTML/Iframe_CID!exploit Exploit 5.976 W32/Sober.AA@mm Mass mailer 5.527 W32/Stration.JQ@mm Mass mailer 4.158 W32/ANI07.A!exploit Exploit 3.689 W32/Grew.A!worm Worm 3.2010 W32/Bagle.GT@mm Mass mailer 2.73Though phishing threats topped the list in …
Singapore Workers Risk Security
Despite a cavalier attitude to computer security, workers are unwilling to shoulder the blame for the consequences according to global research released by SurfControl, a provider of IT security solutions. Conducted by Australian researcher Dr Monica Whitty of Queen’s University Belfast, the five-country SurfControl Trust & …
