When you're a company with branches across the country and a malware infection leads to all its outbound email being blacklisted as spam, you have one thing in mind: fix the problem and fix it fast. That's the situation the U.S. operations of Japanese optical sensor maker Hamamatsu found itself in when it turned to a cloud security provider to turn things around in a hurry.
John P. Mello Jr. | 20 Feb | Read more
An executive at a company whose name is synonymous with antivirus software raised eyebrows earlier this year when he pronounced the death of that form of system protection. Nevertheless, while the effectiveness of that software may have waned over the years, security experts say the pronouncement by Symantec's senior vice president for information security Brian Dye was premature.
John P. Mello Jr. | 16 Dec | Read more
Preserving privacy by keeping information secret isn't working. Consumers give away precious data for online baubles. Data breaches, large and small, spill data all over the Web. Marketers indiscriminiately gather details about the online lives of people in their target markets.
John P. Mello Jr. | 17 Oct | Read more
While workers have embraced consumer technology in the workplace with enthusiasm, those technologies have posed pesky problems for organizations that deal with sensitive personal information, especially universities.
John P. Mello Jr. | 15 May | Read more
A burgeoning and dynamic online advertising market is creating an abundance of opportunity for cyber criminals.
John P. Mello Jr. | 12 Mar | Read more
Nothing spurs malware development like success and that's likely to be the case in the coming months with ransomware.
John P. Mello Jr. | 05 Mar | Read more
The rush of businesses to move their operations to the cloud is creating a slipstream that's pulling security services into the nimbus.
John P. Mello Jr. | 23 Dec | Read more
Old flaws get fixes even as a new one appears
John P. Mello Jr. | 20 Sep | Read more
Risk management critical to skirting pitfalls of permitting personal devices in the office
John P. Mello Jr. | 18 Sep | Read more
Admins now can link apps to a specific version of programming language
John P. Mello Jr. | 13 Sep | Read more
Obad malware grows through zombie net, while Hesperbot takes a new tack on banking malware
John P. Mello Jr. | 06 Sep | Read more
Businesses are only now discovering problems education has coped with for years
John P. Mello Jr. | 30 Aug | Read more
Facebook, others cannot refuse legitimate requests, so users should think twice before posting and follow employers' policies for social networks
John P. Mello Jr. | 28 Aug | Read more
Treasury audit uncovers poor management of software licenses at the agency
John P. Mello Jr. | 23 Aug | Read more
Corporate leaders' optimism is unwarranted, say security pros on the frontline
John P. Mello Jr. | 20 Aug | Read more