Cyber Times

Protect Your Employees

Protecting your company online begins with ensuring your employees are prepared to assist in keeping your computers and networks safe. Simply put, the best security technology in the world can't help you unless employees understand their roles and responsibilities in safeguarding sensitive data and protecting company resources.

How to build multiple layers of security for your small business

The complex and ever-changing security landscape can befuddle small businesses, and the plain truth is that there is no silver security bullet. Small businesses would be well-advised to deploy a multi-faceted security strategy. Here are eight must-have checklist items.

Most of us have heard about the concept of building a defense in depth in order to protect computer resources from black hat hackers. The idea revolves around the use of multiple defenses to thwart, or at least limit, the damage arising from a potential security breach.

News Group admits four News of the World journalists personally hacked phones

The publisher of the News of the World has admitted for the first time that four of its journalists personally hacked phones using information supplied by the private detective Glenn Mulcaire.

Until now, the only reporter to have admitted hacking was Clive Goodman, the former royal editor who was jailed in 2007.

But court papers released to The Daily Telegraph show that News Group Newspapers accepts that three other unnamed reporters at the now-defunct tabloid “intercepted voicemail messages using information provided by” Mulcaire.

Exploit Code Released That Can DOS PcAnywhere

A newly identified vulnerability in Symantec’s pcAnywhere computer remote control product has been published, the flaw exposes its users to Denial of Service attacks.

The code was published Friday on Pastebin by Johnathan Norman, director of security research at network security vendor Alert Logic, and can be used to crash a pcAnywhere service called awhost32.

WordPress plugin relocate is vulnerable to arbitrary files

What is Relocate?

Relocate Upload lets you specify folders, and adds a menu to the Media Library (and Edit Media admin page) that lets you switch media items between these folders and WPs default upload location.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in the Relocate Upload plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

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