Posts Tagged ‘loopholes’

Following the tracks: understanding snowshoe spam

Oct

2011

Brett Cove from SophosLabs in Vancouver presented his talk, “Following the tracks: understanding snowshoe spam”, at the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference in Barcelona this morning. While there has been a lot of press about botnets being shutdown resulting in lower volumes of spam reaching our gateways, there has been very little discussion about tackling “snowshoe” […]

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Facebook’s Bug Bounty Program pays out $40,000 in less than a Month

Aug

2011

It has only been 21 days since the Facebook Bug Bounty Program was announced and yet the company has already paid a total of $40,000 to bounty hunters. The program’s aim is to strengthen Facebook’s defense against attacks by fixing bugs within the system. Their strategy is to entice security researchers with the promise of […]

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Data breach insurance: Is it worth it?

Jul

2011

So you bought insurance against a data breach. With all the potential loopholes and variables, is it worth the cost for the coverage required to handle a real-world scenario? That’s a tender subject these days at Sony. In light of their recent breaches, soaring near an estimated $180 million, it seems their insurance provider, Zurich […]

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