Tag Archives: Risk Management

Pentagon sees progress in cyber warfare

Pentagon sees progress in cyber warfare The Pentagon says it is making progress in developing weapons for its newest battleground – cyberspace – but still faces funding, technology and policy challenges. US Air Force Lieutenant General Michael Basla, vice commander … Continue reading

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Flashback Botnet: Researchers Confirm 600K-Strong Flashback Botnet Is Mostly Mac

Flashback Botnet: Researchers Confirm 600K-Strong Flashback Botnet Is Mostly Mac Earlier this week, Dr.Web reported the discovery of a Mac OS X botnet Flashback (Flashfake). According to their information, the estimated size of this botnet is more than 500, 000 … Continue reading

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IBM X-Force tags three growing cyberattack trends in 2011

IBM X-Force tags three growing cyberattack trends in 2011 The IBM X-Force 2011 Trend and Risk Report identified three increasing cyber attack trends: shell command injection attacks, automated password guessing, and phishing attacks impersonating social networking sites. As progress has … Continue reading

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Infographic: How To Spot A Fake Facebook Friend Profile

Infographic: How To Spot A Fake Facebook Friend Profile

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Satellite phone encryption cracked

Satellite phone encryption cracked By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent German academics said they had cracked two encryption systems used to protect satellite phone signals and that anyone with cheap computer equipment and radio could eavesdrop on calls over an entire … Continue reading

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Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance

Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance A guidance paper from the Institute of Risk Management IRM has produced this guidance paper to provide guidance to directors, risk professionals and others in relation to that part of … Continue reading

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Smartphones and enterprise security

Smartphones and enterprise security By Ian Kilpatrick. Smartphones are spreading throughout the business world. Their use is growing across organizations and at all levels within them. According to Gartner , sales of mobile devices in the second quarter of 2011 … Continue reading

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Waiting For The Gargantuan

Waiting For The Gargantuan The pressing together of tectonic plates along the Himalayas can result in a really big one Pallava Bagla “The most dangerous place in the world today, I think you could argue, is the Indian subcontinent,” former … Continue reading

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Critical infrastructure: time to begin anticipating and adapting to climate change

Critical infrastructure: time to begin anticipating and adapting to climate change Despite the uncertainties surrounding climate change, it is time to start developing effective strategies that will keep critical infrastructure running in the face of the adverse impacts that seem … Continue reading

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ISO/IEC 27005:2011 standard now available

ISO/IEC 27005:2011 standard now available ISO has announced that ISO/IEC 27005:2011 is now available. The standard provides a framework for implementing a risk management approach to managing threats to information security management systems. Information security risks pose a considerable threat … Continue reading

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