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    Beware the wild west of Web applications

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    Michelle Drolet

    Web applications – particularly those facilitating collaboration and communication – are a boon to sales, marketing and productivity. Teams work together more effectively, salespeople enjoy better leads and marketing tools and customer service reps can more closely connect with those they serve. All of these gains, though, come at a cost: risk. By their very nature, Web applications circumvent many enterprise security controls. They are designed to enable communication, not security. A paper byfalse

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    U.S. Outgunned in Hacker War

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    Michelle Drolet

    There was a recent article in the Wall Street Journal in which the top cyber cop Shawn Henry, spoke how we are loosing the battle with the hackers. At times the hackers can keep up us all night worrying about our networks, employee actions whether intentional or not, we need to remain vigilant and on the offensive to prevent attacks. Government regulations are not going to control hackers in fact they probably will make companies less secure. Vigilance on the part of organizations will helpfalse

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    Recommended Reading for Every Entrepreneur

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    Michelle Drolet

    Boston Business Journal asked Towerwall for required reading for every entrepreneur. Michelle Drolet recommends “The Power of Nice” by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. Nice companies have lower turnover and higher productivity. Click here to read the article.

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    Can you stamp out spambots? No, but you can help

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    Michelle Drolet

    The headline reads, “FBI warns of new malware targeting bank accounts," but it could just as well say, “More new victims born from opening emails.” From the simple act of opening an email and clicking on an attachment, the victim's username and password to their bank accounts are stolen by a process called keylogging, where the info is presto, logged directly from your very fingers as you type in your credentials. What's scary is that bogus emails can appear to come from someone you know is afalse

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    Loss Of Customer Personal Information Damages Banks’ Credibility

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    Michelle Drolet

    On Jan. 5, federal law enforcement seized several automobiles worth about $100,000 in value. They had belonged to the former president of the Massachusetts Bank and Trust Company and were taken as restitution for his defrauding the bank in 1997. It seems that not a day passes by when news of banking-related fraud, money laundering, or a privacy violation is reported. Last year in May, Bank of America sustained a $10-million loss when an insider sold the bank’s customer data to organizedfalse

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    Join us for our 2012 Database Security Top Threats and Tips webinar.

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    Michelle Drolet

    Towerwall & AppSecInc are pleased to offer a free webinar to highlight Database Security Top Threats and Tips. Learn more about the current threat climate and top tips for protecting sensitive information in the database. During this one hour presentation, AppSecInc's CTO, Josh Shaul will discuss how to: • Defend against the latest cyber espionage methods including both insider and outsider attacks • Effectively manage separation of duties • Patch documented vulnerabilities • Protect againstfalse

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    Security Awareness Conference

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    Michelle Drolet

    This Thursday, October 20th I will be a guest presenter at the 5th annual Pioneer Valley Information Security Awareness Conference at Holyoke Community College. A comprehensive slate of topics will be discussed, notable will be trends in cyber crime, protecting business data, the security of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and women in information technology. As Part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the the conference brings together security decision-makers,false

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