Cyber attacks for reasons political, financial or fun have spread exponentially over the last year. Increased spending on security and training is doing much to stem the flow of information into the wrong hands. A Symantec survey of 1, 425 IT managers across 32 countries revealed that the $35 billion currently spent on IT consulting […]

If you tend to lack a bit of self-control and you’re the type of person who frequently needs to freeze their credit card in a chunk of ice, have someone hide your credit card in a place that will make it impossible to make purchases, or sometimes view your purchases when you get home and […]

With companies better protecting their computer network perimeters against malicious intruders, a growing number of attacks have begun taking place at the website application and database layers instead. A recent survey shows that more than 80 percent of attacks against corporate networks these days involve Web applications. The survey suggests that a vast majority of […]

A threat profile is a list of things that a malicious attack can do to a computer. When a penetration testing company is performing security checks against threats to a customer’s database or website applications, they focus on specific areas that coordinate with the threat profile. There are several diagnostics that an application security testing […]

In the digital age, data can be as valuable as physical assets. Every year, companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on hardware and software to protect the data located on their computers. A single security breach could mean having trade secrets compromised or customer information in the wrong hands. Passwords, firewalls and encryption are […]