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InfoSecurity November 2010

Cover Story

Information Security Culture:
Indeed, The Need of The hour

The behaviour of employees has been identified as a key factor in the protection of organizational information. Information Security Culture(ISC) has to play here a key role and has to be embedded into organizations to positively influence employee behaviour towards protecting organizational information.

Data Security

Data Loss: How Big is The Impact?

This article focuses on the effect of data loss and its ultimate impact on the organizations

Security Tips

Database Security Best Practices

Nowadays, script installers and applications that run blogs, content management systems, and other dynamic web sites make it easy for anyone to set up a data-driven site in a matter of minutes. While such technologies make it easy for a web designer to focus on the way a site looks and the content that populates it, they don’t lend themselves to a secure site in many cases. Often what suffers is the database itself.

Email Security

Are our Gmail Emails Secure
from our Prying Friends?

Generally, quite often emails are said to be compromised by the professional hackers. But what you need to know is that our emails are also probed by our friends and others whom we know. In this article, we discuss why our gmail email accounts are vulnerable and what steps we should take to secure them.

Cyber Security

Managing Cybercrime:
Fighting Unitedly

New doors are opening every day for cybercriminals seeking to profit from valuable corporate data. However, the security community now has the opportunity to create a unified front in the fight against cybercrime by leveraging their collective knowledge to analyze and collate cybercrime data – and therefore gain a more complete picture of cyber-crime than has ever before been possible.

National Security

Are Chinese Blogs Initiating Psychological Cyber Warfare?

Certain blogs from the China have been indulging in a new type of cyber warfare with India. These blogs criticize the Indian Government and its Defence forces with respect to China and its allies. In this brief article, we discuss why Indian analysts have to monitor the Chinese blogs to deter them.

Web Security

DNS Protection:
Understanding The Challenges

This article briefly describes how attackers can exploit known behaviors in DNS to conduct distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

Web Security

WordPress Security

With over 9.7 million active installations of WordPress and 32 of the Technorati Top 100 blogs using the application for either self-hosted blogs or blogs hosted on WordPress.com, it is easy to say that WordPress is by far the most popular blogging system in existence.

Industry News