The case for Cloud Access Security Brokers in small business

The case for Cloud Access Security Brokers in small business

For most small businesses reading this article, I’ve lost them with the headline. A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) is likely to be something they’ve never heard of, let alone considered. Yet more small businesses are becoming Cloud-friendly, especially with their adoption of Software as a Service applications. Funny thing is, some security-focused IT professionals…

Facebook just made your old private messages public – or did it?

The latest scandal to hit Facebook is from users reporting that old private messages (circa 2007-2008) have now been made public on their timeline. Facebook is denying this, saying they aren’t private messages at all, just old wall posts. Despite Facebook engineers knowing what they are talking about with their own software (or do they?),…

BigPond ADSL – Your ADSL Service Cancellation Notice email

Disturbing email doing the rounds over the long Easter weekend in Australia, pretending to be from BigPond. I’m blogging about this in the hope that you’ll find this entry if you receive that email and Google it first.  It’s a scam, and a very clever one. First the details: sender address [email protected] (that’s your first alarm bell-bt.com is…

Issues with security update patch for IE7 WinXP KB2416400?

Our friends at the Kaseya NOC have decided not to rollout out a Microsoft security patch just released for Internet Explorere 7 machines (on Windows XP).  They’ve seen some issues once it’s been installed and there are a few blog sites with people reporting problems.  Suggest hold off installing this one for a while until…

Attention!!!! All your personal files were encrypted with a strong algorythm RSA-1024 …

.. and you can’t get an access to them without making of what we need! Read ‘How to decrypt’ txt-file on your desktop for details Just do it as fast as you can! Remember: Don’t try to tell someone about this message if you want to get your files back! Just do all we told.…