IT Security Standard http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog Top Stories & Insights on IT Security Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:41:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Car computers potentially vulnerable to wireless attack, US reseach shows Modern cars could be vulnerable to wireless hacking, research by the University of California San Diego and the University of Washington has revealed. Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3199#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Cloud Security Alliance offers certification IT virtual-security experts can now show off their knowledge with a certificate that shows they've mastered the contents of two cloud-security papers. Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3197#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed “Remote Access Security Tops Australian IT Security Manager Priorities in 2011 “ Australian security managers have highlighted the need to provide secure remote access for their organisation’s employees as a top security priority in the year head according to a survey conducted by WatchGuard Technologies at last week’s Security 2010 conference and exhibition staged in Sydney. Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3194#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Top Best Free and Useful WordPress Security Plugins This blog post discuss about the plugins for the over all WordPress security from the hackers, robots, spambots and other unwanted exploits. Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3192#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Acquisitions, Social Networking and Other Security News From the Week A recap of a week of IT security news that included talk of acquisitions by CA Technologies and 3M as well as security moves by Facebook and Twitter. Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3190#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed College Data Breaches Underscore Security Challenges The University of Virginia reportedly fell victim to a cyber-attack the week of Aug. 23 that resulted in the theft of nearly $1 million. Unfortunately for administrators at colleges and universities, their institutions are just as vulnerable to data breaches as enterprises. Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3188#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Feds Issue Smart Grid Cybersecurity Guidelines Stuxnet served to catalyze concerns about smart grid security, which the 537-page "Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security" strives to address by providing security requirements and a risk assessment framework. Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3186#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed US Department of Defense plans insider threat detection system A US Department of Defense (DoD) agency is to develop a system that can identify and stop insiders from stealing information from its networks. Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3184#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed FishNet Security Survey Reveals That Cloud Computing Will Replace Social Networks as the Number 2 Cyberthreat Within Next Two Years The survey revealed that C-level executives and security practitioners believe that the top three computing sources that present the greatest threat to information security today are mobile computing (69%), social networks (68%) and cloud computing platforms (35%). Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3180#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Microsoft Releases Application Security Tool Kit for Developers Microsoft updates its EMET tool kit, designed to help developers thwart attacks against their applications. Read More >> http://www.itsecuritystandard.com/blog/?p=3179#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed