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Join us for Sophos' Upcoming Event: Today’s Threat Landscape – How to Stay Safe

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Michelle Drolet

Join us for Sophos' upcoming event:

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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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Views from the Inside: Is your data safe with free cloud services? (guest post)

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Michelle Drolet

The overwhelming advantages of cloud-based file storage are not in dispute. You have an automatic backup of your files, which can be accessed on any device, at any time. Small amounts of storage are generally free, and large swathes of server space are coming down in price all the time. They absolve your business from the headache of backup management, disaster recovery, and bandwidth for instant anytime access. Convenient? Yes, most definitely. Safe and suitable for the enterprise? Well ...false

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Facebook leaks are a lot leakier than Facebook is letting on

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Michelle Drolet

Remember last week, Facebook leaked email addresses and phone numbers for 6 million users, but that it was really kind of a modest leak, given that it's a billion-user service? OK, scratch the "modest" part. The researchers who originally found out that Facebook is actually creating secret dossiers for users are now saying the numbers don't quite match up. The number of affected users Facebook noted in a posting on its security blog is far less than what they themselves found, and Facebook isfalse

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Introducing Towewall's Alternative Cloud-based File Sharing Solutions

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Michelle Drolet

Towerwall and the Information Security Summit highlighted in SearchSecurity.com Article

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Michelle Drolet

Check out Search Security's article - "HIPAA Omnibus Rule, PPACA challenge enterprise compliance management", where our own Natalie Kmit and the Information Security Summit 2013 are highlighted:

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Are mobile apps truly enterprise-secure?

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Michelle Drolet

Many companies have embraced the BYOD trend. They may even have developed applications that enable employees to have 24/7 access to business data and tools. The benefits can be counted in productivity boosts and flexibility, but there is a real and present danger that is being ignored all too often. How many of these enterprise apps have undergone security penetration testing? Could the mobile apps your business uses be jeopardising your data security or even regulatory compliance?

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A case for the Growing Need for Application Security.

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Michelle Drolet

Islamist Element in Attacks. A pro-Islamic, anti-American hacking campaign appears to have jumped the gun and started early with hundreds of sites being compromised today. Set to take place on May 7 this month - thought to be US time - and targeting government sites in the US, Israel and India, the campaign is called #OpUSA. It is coordinated mainly through Twitter and postings on sites like Pastebin, with an unknown amount of participants. However, lists of compromised sites are alreadyfalse

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Views from the Inside: A successful BYOD policy is not just about security

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Michelle Drolet

The BYOD trend shows no sign of abating as more and more organizations recognize the potential benefits in terms of cost and convenience. According to a recent surveyby Good Technology, 76 percent of enterprises are now supporting BYOD and the majority of those that still don’t are planning to do so in the near future. When we look closer, we find that 75 percent of those supporting BYOD employ at least 2,000 people, and 46 percent have 10,000 or more employees. Large organizations andfalse

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