Melisa Bleasdale

The approach to enterprise security has always been to build the fortress walls bigger and higher — write more policies, install more products. Yet despite heightened awareness and a proliferation of cutting-edge security tools, 2005 turned out to be the worst year on record for corporate security breaches. With 2006 hot on its heels, it’s […]

Once the domain of uber savvy hackers and forward-thinking mafioso, today’s online crime requires little more than a cursory knowledge of programming and a downloadable tool kit to get started. Progressive criminals saw the evolution of technology as a means for upgrading their own malicious activities. Hackers, crackers, phishers, pharmers and social engineers used their […]

Although we have long since known about the virility of email threats and viruses, this year continues to supply heavily evolved and critically destructive email attacks. According to Symantec’s semi-annual Internet Security Threat Report, which was released this past September, between January 1 and June 30 of this year, a record-breaking 1,862 new vulnerabilities were […]

Phishing is like spam in only one respect. They both come across email. In all other ways they’re quite different. People sending spam are trying to sell you something. People sending phishing attacks are trying to steal something from you. One type of communication is from a marketer — whether legitimate or not. The other […]