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 Third parties introduce many deficiencies exploited by attackers

According to Trustwave's 2010 Global Security Report, the most notable trend of 2009 was the continued existence of attack vectors despite the security industry’s awareness of the associated vulnerabilities for a decade or more. Organizations large and small were found to be moving forward with plans to implement new technology, while leaving basic security threats overlooked in legacy environments and IT systems.

The report analyzes data gathered from nearly 1900 penetration tests and more than 200 security incident and compromise investigations throughout 2009 and provides a business and technical impact analysis. The report was compiled by SpiderLabs, the advanced security team at Trustwave responsible for incident response and forensics, penetration testing, application security and security research.

A recent article in USA Today agrees with these findings, stating, “The vast majority of organizations routinely fail to take simple defensive measures, such as shoring up comm...  [ more ]

 Microsoft shares its SDL tools and expertise with the developer community

According to Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, in the last six months of 2009, 81% of reported vulnerabilities were in application software products. Increasingly crime-motivated cyber threats and the competitive marketplace means that application developers are being challenged to engineer more secure products. Developers want to do the right thing but have been put off by difficulties in acquiring specialist security expertise and assumptions of huge additional cost and resource.

The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), a security assurance process designed to reduce the number and severity of security vulnerabilities in software, was developed by Microsoft and managed by the Trustworthy Computing group, became mandatory for all Microsoft products in 2004.

Based on a belief that more secure code benefits everyone, Microsoft is committed to sharing its SDL tools, expertise and guidance with the broader developer community. To date more than 48,000 developers have downlo...  [ more ]

 

 

Latest hospital and healthcare security articles

 Third parties introduce many deficiencies exploited by attackers

 Microsoft shares its SDL tools and expertise with the developer community

 Imprivata provides NHS clinical staff with secure access to medical applications via SSO technology

 Axis Communications introduces IP-based mobile video surveillance solution for use in vehicles

 What the operations people have to deal with in order to maintain effective firewalls

 SafeNet's Luna hardware security module achieves Common Criteria EAL4+ certification

 RandomStorm acquisition of DVWA open source web application enables security professionals to fine tune their vulnerability testing skills in a legal environment

 Organisations must destroy their confidential data securely or face heavy fines

 JetView Pro monitors and maintains IP-based communication networks in large scale surveillance networks

 Care UK safeguards company data with Becrypt DISK Protect

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Healthcare IT Dilemma: iPad Lust Meets Software Reality (IT World) In addition to being a top priority for legislators and the press, healthcare has become a major target for IT vendors. Driven by economic pressures that force hospitals to merge and consolidate, regulations that force better documentation and security, and legislation that may fundamentally change the industry's business models, healthcare companies will spend more on technology this year than ...

Experts on Healthcare (Foreign Relations) Seven experts offer pros and cons on the Obama healthcare overhaul. U.S. should improve existing air security measures that identify genuine threats instead of imposing "knee-jerk initiatives that look tough" but may be less effective.

Obama's healthcare summit sets stage for end-game (Reuters via Yahoo! News) President Barack Obama's call for a bipartisan healthcare summit sets the stage for a final push to get the stalled legislation through Congress, but skeptical Republicans said on Monday the only solution is to start over.

GOP cool to Obama’s offer to meet on healthcare reform (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) President Obama has invited Republican and Democratic congressional leaders to meet him on Feb. 25 for a televised discussion of healthcare reform alternatives. Will this be the spark needed to get the administration’s top domestic priority moving again?

Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked (USA Today) Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks.

Obama invites Republicans to healthcare session (Reuters via Yahoo! News) President Barack Obama said on Sunday he will hold a meeting with Democratic and Republican lawmakers to discuss ways to move forward on legislation to overhaul the healthcare system.

Michigan: Security Is Breached at Detroit Airport (New York Times) A man without a boarding pass walked through a screening checkpoint and refused to obey security officers.

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