The question becomes "how did the bad guys gain access to this company?s online accounts"? And one can quickly conclude that it was through some unsuspecting employee getting phished and opening up the network foran infection, likely with the ZeuS malware.

This case clearly shows you need state-of-the art endpoint protection, that gets updated with high frequency, and has a very high percentage score of proactive protection. VIPRE comes to mind for sure.

Also an obvious conclusion is that if you want to protect your network from external cybercriminals, have another look at Defense-in-Depth. Here is a page that will get you the concept in a nutshell: http://www.wservernews.com/go/1307693852468

If you're like other organizations, the use of social media at your company is rampant - with employees visiting sites for legitimate business purposes or simply for fun. With new Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn scams popping up daily, how do you strike a balance between enabling use while keeping users safe?

In this VIPREcast, gain insight into the risks posed by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging platforms, and other social media outlets, such as:

• Lure campaigns: From clickjacking to survey scams, what your users may be seeing online.
• Alternative attacks: Recent scams on services such as Tumblr that rapidly expose the network and negatively impact acceptable use policy content.
• Business-centric exploits: Malware techniques that capitalize on IT missteps and how to prevent them.

Join us for an important VIPREcast that will look at recent exploits we've seen, the most common techniques being used, and best practices for successful social media policies:

11:00am ET / 10:00am CT / 8:00am PT / 15:00 GMT

Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2011
Location: This is an Internet based event.
Register/More Info: http://www.wservernews.com/go/1307697790218

Chief Security Officer Magazine reports on KnowBe4's recent phishing research. "Despite more than a decade of warnings, users still readily fall for phishing attacks. For years, phishing attacks were viewed largely as a consumer security problem. Attackers would target users with an email that tempted them into a fraudulent 411 [check] scam, or to share their account numbers and sign on credentials with a bogus Web site. Not anymore.

"It's become clear, going to back to the so-called 2009 Operation Aurora attacks that phishing attacks work. Regarding those attacks, a Forrester Research analyst quoted an aerospace company employee who was familiar with the exploit-laced Adobe PDF files that came attached to the spear-phished emails. "This kind of stuff is driving the defense contractors nuts. They should know better, yet they are still affected," the source said at the time. Spear-phishing attacks -- those that use information about someone to target them directly as part of an attack -- are all the more successful. The viability of phishing attacks were revealed more recently with the successful attack against RSA Security and then the related attack on defense contractor Lockheed-Martin." More: http://www.wservernews.com/go/1307698005109

Some companies are adopting them and many employees are dying to use them. But are tablets too risky for the enterprise? Security experts ponder some of the larger questions about tablets and other mobile devices companies are facing.

A poll conducted late in 2010 by ChangeWave Research found the number of organizations giving employees tablets for work would double in the coming twelve months. The research found 14 percent of businesses polled expected to buy tablets for employees in the first quarter of 2011, up from 7 percent of companies who supplied staff with tablets in the last quarter of 2010.

But while most organizations are not rushing to adopt tablets in their IT department, many end-user employees are in a hurry to start using them--on their own--with or without company support. That has security managers scratching their heads as to whether tablets change their risk profile. The answer will differ from company to company, but here are five questions to ask as you consider your tablet policy. Another good article at CSO Online! http://www.wservernews.com/go/1307698138125

Network World's Sandro Villinger wrote: "Ballmer finally confirmed what tech pundits knew all along: the next generation of Windows will be out in 2012. In the meantime, Microsoft is half-way done with Windows 8--it's in the Milestone 3 stage right now--and is prepping up the first beta for this September's "Windows Developer Conference" in Anaheim, California.

"But you don't have to wait until then to get a look at some of Windows 8's best new features. I've closely examined a pre-beta leak and dug up some great features and improvements you can look forward to. While these pre-beta builds have been covered left and right, I've chosen to focus on the lesser-known, but noteworthy improvements. Here is the slide show". Check out #4, booting in less than 20 seconds sounds good: http://www.wservernews.com/go/1307698236750 

Paul Thurrott recently wrote: The fact that Microsoft is in the midst of a dramatic retooling of its product offerings should come as no surprise: "The company is moving rapidly to establish itself as a dominant provider of cloud services in addition to its more traditionally delivered client and server solutions. Today, the company offers both hosted services - cloud-based versions of its most popular server products, such as Exchange Server and SharePoint Server - and entirely new cloud-hosted platforms, such as Windows Azure and SQL Azure, among other offerings.

Microsoft has long championed a unique opportunity for customers that its competitors simply can't match. In addition to the sheer volume of its disparate offerings, Microsoft also offers customers a range of choices that span both traditional, on-premises offerings and hosted cloud services, but also a hybrid deployment model in which both on-premises and hosted offerings can be mixed and matched within a corporate environment. Companies such as Amazon and Google, whose product offerings exist almost solely in the cloud, simply have no answer to this need. Read more about the impact of this from the system admin viewpoint at: http://www.wservernews.com/go/1307698383609

Server consolidation increases the use of available computing resources and allows more virtual machines (VMs) to operate simultaneously on a physical host system. But there are practical limitations to a server consolidation strategy?even with today?s most powerful and virtualization friendly servers. Discover what these strategy pitfalls are in this featured article: http://www.wservernews.com/go/1307698471687

Does VDI Eliminate The Need For Antivirus Software?