Towerwall's InfoSec Blog

Stay Secure in the Cloud with Sophos Cloud Endpoint

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Michelle Drolet

Towerwall and Sophos, partnering to protect data integrity in the cloud.

Internet Explorer, .NET, IPv6 and Shockwave top the February 2014 Patch Tuesday list

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Michelle Drolet

For today's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released seven bulletins (a surprise after only announcing five last week) and Adobe released one. There are four critical advisories, to me the most important of which is MS14-010 affecting Internet Explorer versions 6 through 10. This patch fixes 24 vulnerabilities, one of which has been publicly disclosed. Considering that 22 of these vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution, this fix is priority one. MS14-007 is a flaw in the Direct2D graphicsfalse

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Introducing our Quarterly Newsletter: the Data Security Review

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Michelle Drolet

I am excited to announce the launch of our quarterly newsletter, the Data Security Review.

Establishing Security Goals

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Michelle Drolet

Implementing security practices in your organization’s employees’ daily work habits, and ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of information security, the goals of the Security Awareness Program are:

3 Keys To Keep Enterprise Clouds Secure

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Michelle Drolet

3 Keys To Keep Enterprise Clouds Secure Outsourcing has won out over ownership, and the rush to the cloud continues to gather pace. Where security is concerned there are two major trends that threaten to expose your company to unnecessary risk. There’s a lack of planning and due diligence when choosing cloud providers, and there’s a murky grey area when it comes to responsibility. They can both be mitigated by building security planning into your system from the start, instead of trying tofalse

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How Can you Expose Targeted Attacks and Combat APTs?

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Michelle Drolet

Cybercriminals are employing more sophisticated techniques all the time and far too many companies and organizations still don’t have the protection they really need to safeguard their systems. The prevalence of targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) is disturbing. The risk is that security is breached, typically through manipulation of employees using a technique such as spear phishing, and existing security systems are unable to detect the attack. Data can be harvested forfalse

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Critical fixes for Office, Outlook and IE in September Patch Tuesday

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Michelle Drolet

Windows admins will have their hands full with the large number of security updates in this month's Patch Tuesday. There are fixes for 47 vulnerabilities in 13 bulletins for September's Patch Tuesday cycle. Four of this month's bulletins are critical. This year's total for bulletins is up to 79, a considerable increase from 62 at the same time last year. One critical bulletin this month addresses a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook, which can be exploited if users openfalse

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Phone 5S Phishing Mail Arrives in time for launch.

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Michelle Drolet

While millions of mobile users are anticipating the launch of the new iPhone (5S and 5C), cybercriminals are already making their move to distribute spam that promise to give away the said devices for free, in the guise of a contest. We saw samples of spammed messages that attempted to spoof an Apple Store email notification. The said message informs recipients that they won the latest iPhone 5S mobile phones and iPad. Figure 1. Fake Apple email To get these prizes, they are asked to go to afalse

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10 Things I Know About... Mobile Security

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Michelle Drolet

10. Malware Is On The Rise The threat of malware on mobile platforms is growing steadily as more cybercriminals target mobile devices in increasingly sophisticated ways.

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Read the EDA's Report on Malware Infections

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Michelle Drolet

Read the EDA's Report on Malware Infections - Malware Infections on EDA’s Systems Were Overstated and the Disruption of IT Operations Was Unwarranted Click here to read.

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