by Dovell Bonnett | Dec 9, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention
I recently came across this article on the “Top hacker disasters of 2011”, written by David Aitel of Immunity Inc. David has put together a brilliant article that lists some of the high profile attacks and five lessons to be learned. One key point that you should...
by Dovell Bonnett | Dec 5, 2011 | Cloud Security
When you accept that cloud provider’s contract to store or backup your company’s data on their servers, did you read the fine print? According to Gartner, 2012 may be the year that Cloud Services gets a big boost because companies are looking to decrease IT costs,...
by Dovell Bonnett | Dec 2, 2011 | Healthcare, Hospital Information System, Smartcards
With all my LinkedIn activities I came across a great individual who holds the patent to a product that might be of great interest to you. Lisa Holmes has patented the addition of antimicrobial chemicals into plastic cards and tokens. It adds no color to the plastic...
by Dovell Bonnett | Nov 30, 2011 | Cyber Security, Multifactor Authentication,, Password Authentication, Power LogOn
Why rebadge when you can extend functions? The convergence of physical and logical access on an employee ID badge has been a much discussed topic over the past 10 years. I know, I have been one of its major champions. However, the one stumbling block that has stopped...
by Dovell Bonnett | Nov 21, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention, Identity Theft
SplashData published their annual list of the 25 Worst Passwords on the Internet. Here is the list that all IT directors should block as acceptable logon password to websites, networks, computers, etc. Not taking precautions could result in another sort of list such...
by Dovell Bonnett | Nov 18, 2011 | Cloud Security, Cyber Security, Data Security, Healthcare, Multifactor Authentication,, Password Authentication, Password Management
The Great Password Question That Won’t Die, “Just how long should a password be?” In one of my LinkedIn discussion groups, a member, who we will call MB, posted this simple question back on March 14, 2010: “How long should a password be?” Well as of 11/11/11 and over...
by Dovell Bonnett | Nov 16, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention, Identity Theft
UCLA recently agreed to pay a penalty of $865,000 for a series of HIPPA violations and now they are forced to reveal that the theft of an external hard drive from a former employee’s home has created the fears of yet another security breach. Plus, UCLA is...
by Dovell Bonnett | Nov 14, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention
Criminal Hackers Using Social Media Profiles to Crack Passwords I recently read this article by Tom Godfrey in the Toronto Sun titled Linkedin to Identify Theft. The article talks about how social media sites are used by identity thieves. It also highlights how...
by Dovell Bonnett | Nov 4, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention
“The first layer of network security is to know ‘who is knocking on the door’.” – Dovell Bonnett All the recent cyber-attacks confirm the importance of strong identity verification. To satisfy Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD-12), the National...
by Dovell Bonnett | Nov 3, 2011 | Data Theft Prevention, Multifactor Authentication,, Password Authentication
Recently, at least 48 firms were successfully attacked when the “Poison Ivy” virus was planted on their Windows PCs. The attacks started probably in July and continued until mid-September of this year. The cause of the infection was by means of emails sent to...
