Have you ever lost a USB Drive at work?  Did you know that its possible that no one cares? Better make sure it wasn’t something important…

Over 43 per cent of those questioned have no controls whatsoever in place to manage removable media devices, 27.4 per cent leave it to the manager’s discretion, and 8.6 per cent have taken the drastic step of introducing a company-wide ban. Only 16.4 per cent use endpoint security software to manage the potential risks effectively.  This is despite a raft of recent media stories surrounding insider data theft using removable media.

Source: Help Net Security

A whole bunch of companies are getting together to make everywhere a safer place including one company called InGrid that is harnessing the power of the web to get it done… 

The company’s technology is based on wireless sensors placed at many points inside a home that are linked to both a handheld device and a password-protected Web site.

The sensors provide real-time information not only on whether the house is safe from burglars, but whether children, parents or babysitters have entered the premises using their passcodes.

Source: Reuters

Cute animated cursor users beware! The animated cursor virus we reported on earlier has taken a turn for the “uber-nasty”. Microsoft has just posted a brand new security bulletin that reveals exactly just what systems are vulnerable, and its a doozy…

Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows XP 64-Bit Edition Version 2003 (Itanium)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
Microsoft Windows Vista

Next time, think twice before installing cute animated cursors on any system.

Source: eWeek

Samsung Electronics is about to release a new high-performance security camera that combines a new 32X optical zoom with a 10X digital zoom, giving it a total zoom of 320X! The camera is ideal for surveillance not only because of the super zoom, but because it can also operated and acquire picture in any light condition. You can run, but you can’t hide!

Source: Gizmag

No, IE7 isn’t a virus, though it is a bit buggy sometimes.  However, there is a real threat out there, and it’s sitting in your inbox disguised as an Internet Explorer 7 Download.

The e-mails carry the subject line “Internet Explorer 7 Downloads” and appear to come from admin@microsoft.com. They include a blue, Microsoft-style graphic offering a download of IE 7 beta 2. Clicking the graphic will download an executable file called IE 7.exe.

The file is actually a new virus called Virus.Win32.Grum.A, and security experts were still analyzing it Friday to see what it does. Sophos PLC said it can spread by e-mailing itself to contacts in a user’s address book. The virus tampers with registry files to ensure it gets installed, and it tries to download additional files from the Internet, said Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant for Sophos.

Source: Network World