Palo Alto Networks Researcher Discovers Critical Microsoft Vulnerability
The Threat Research Team at Palo Alto Networks has been at it again, discovering yet another critical Microsoft vulnerability. The vulnerability (MS11-038) is addressed in today’s patch Tuesday release, and you can read the Microsoft summary here. The vulnerability involves a weakness in Microsoft OLE automation …Continue reading
posted by: Matt on June 3, 2011 1:38 PM
filed in: Uncategorized
tagged: application control, application usage & risk report, Firewall
European Workers: More Social, But Not (Necessarily) Less Productive
We recently published data that analyzed application activity in more than 1,250 organizations worldwide and confirmed what most assumed to be the case: that Facebook is indeed the dominant player in social networking, consuming 87% of all social networking bandwidth observed. However, what was somewhat surprising is that social networking has not slowed the usage of webmail (personal use email) or IM. Quite the contrary, in fact, compared with 12 months ago these application categories are very healthy with IM traffic, as a percentage of overall traffic more than doubling; while webmail increased nearly 5 fold.
The Man-in-the-Mailbox
As reported today in the New York Times, Google has acknowledged the discovery of a scheme to steal Gmail passwords and eavesdrop on the affected email accounts. (You can read more information on this from Google’s blog here)
This scheme targeted specific government and military individuals as well as journalists and activists with targeted spear-phishing techniques to lure the target into entering their Gmail passwords. …Continue reading
