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Published Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:30 AM by Bob Hansmann
The 2013 Threat Report from the Websense® Security Labs (WSL) is now available. The report details mobile, social, email and web-based threats, and while it is full of ominous data points, it is a very interesting read. The report is designed to help...

Published Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:00 PM by Lamont Orange
Last week, we all woke to the New York Times announcing they were victims of an ongoing attack by Chinese hackers, resulting in the accounts of several reporters being compromised. The article went on to describe details of the breach including four months...

Published Tuesday, February 05, 2013 5:20 PM by Brenda Santos
The recent breaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) further reinforce the fact that users can be an information security program's weakest link. How did this breach occur? As described in media coverage surrounding the debacle,...

Published Monday, October 29, 2012 10:38 AM by Jason Woo
Every week I hear cyber security teams say they’re worried about spear-phishing . They’re struggling to defend against them with their current technology. But to exacerbate matters, their users also struggle to understand how to spot a malicious...

Published Wednesday, October 24, 2012 3:00 PM by Fiaaz Walji
Last week, the Canadian federal government announced its plans to create a secure, stable and resilient digital infrastructure in Canada. To help improve incident response and stop cyber-threats, the Government of Canada is investing $155M in our cybersecurity...

Published Tuesday, October 09, 2012 4:58 AM by Patrik Runald
Spear-phishing is a huge concern for today’s government and enterprises. While high profile attacks like last week’s spear-phishing attack against the White House and last year’s attack against Oak Ridge National Laboratory underscore...

Published Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:54 AM by Jason Woo
Leading analyst firm Gartner just released the 2012 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways (SEG) * and noted an uptick in targeted phishing attacks. The report states "Phishing attacks continue to oscillate, while more targeted phishing attacks...

Published Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:11 AM by Tom Clare

 

Last week we announced several new, important core security technologies that we added to our TRITON architecture. Websense ACE now includes 10 new defense innovations; seven are focused on outbound traffic to keep data theft and call-home communications contained, preventing theft or loss. Because so many of them are industry firsts, I wanted to take a moment to explain what many of these do and why we created them.

Truth is, the bad guys are stealing corporate data and avoiding detection using advanced techniques. In just the last year, we've seen key intellectual property and user identities stolen from corporations and government agencies, including some you would least expect-including entertainment (gaming) and security companies!

Below are a few examples of how cyber criminals are going undetected, stealing your IP, and how we can stop it from happening.

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Published Tuesday, June 19, 2012 3:01 PM by Jason Woo
Phishing. It’s been around for ages and continues to evolve. From the simple money wire scams and the attempts to steal AOL user passwords, to ultimately the threat that makes IT managers shake in their boots: “spear-phishing.” In recent...

Published Thursday, June 07, 2012 8:29 PM by Jason Clark
Yesterday’s LinkedIn breach made headlines, but I want to go deeper and provide practical advice for organizations on how they can anticipate any DLP consequences and tighten their network security. As the world’s largest professional social...

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