Search Security has a nice new article about how to secure your USB thumb drives. There is a good discussion of encryptions, remote management and malware spreading issues. There’s some good discussion about data protection policie as well. The article mentions IronKey, and states that “SMBs that need to guarantee that all data will be [...]
Max Butler, the “Iceman”, faces two counts of wire fraud stemming from the theft of nearly 2 million credit card numbers and $86 Million in alleged fraudulent purchases. He ran an online cards forum called Carders Market. This was a site where cyber criminals could buy and sell credit card numbers and other personal information. [...]
Here’s a great article in the Examiner about “Cyber Security – The Next Big Thing”. Doug Maughan, Program Manager, Cyber Security R&D Center, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, talks about IronKey and how DHS helped to fund the initial research behind the company. This entry was posted on Friday, June [...]
Hackers were monitoring the WiFi access point at Custom House Coffee in Portsmouth NH, and were able to steal the credit card details of about 50 customers who used the WiFi at the coffee shop to surf the net and do e-commerce transactions. The IronKey SecureSessions encrypted web surfing service could have prevented this. IronKey [...]
Kirkwood Community College officials are providing a year of credit monitoring to 1,600 people and businesses after a mobile data device containing names and Social Security numbers was taken from an Iowa City work force office June 4. The device was not encrypted. A man has been charged in conjunction with the theft. This entry [...]
Murray at the Ethical Hacker (and current Director of Neohapsis Labs), has written a very good review of our IronKey Personal device. Read the review here. Murray performed an extensive penetration test of the IronKey device, including quite a bit of technical research including disassembly of the IronKey unlocker application. After several months of testing, [...]
Illinois State auditors released a report on Thursday that found 52 laptops are missing, potentially containing sensitive information. The computers belonged to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, an agency that regulates banking, insurance and various professions that include medical, accounting and engineering. This entry was posted on Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 8:08 [...]
Internet Service Provider Pricewert was shutdown last week upon accusations by the Federal Trade Commission because it was hosting spam bots and other botnets. The amount of spam on the Internet (90% of all email is spam and phishing), dropped by about 15%. Here we are a week later, and spam volume is pretty much [...]
A Ponemon survey released today has found that the majority of employees routinely violate corporate information security policies, and it’s getting worse. A survey of 1,000 corporate end users found that people routinely use unauthorized USB memory sticks to copy data, use personal unencrypted email from work, and download free applications and use them at [...]
Andy Greenberg of Forbes has written an excellent article about how law enforcement is working on a global cross-border basis to find and arrest cyber criminals. I’m quoted, as my role as Chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group. “Law enforcement alone can’t stop the growing ranks of cybercriminals, says Dave Jevans, chairman of Anti-Phishing Working [...]
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