Businesses are putting their corporate security at risk, with one in three organizations (33 percent) allowing their staff unrestricted access to corporate resources from their personal smartphones, according to a survey.
In the beginning of September, a group of computer hackers calling themselves AntiSec announced that they had stolen a file containing unique identification data for 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices. They claimed the database was stolen from the compromised laptop of an FBI agent. Simultaneous to AntiSec’s release, the FBI denied the claim. To substantiate their claim, AntiSec released one million of the unique identifiers minus the personal data embedded in the stolen file.
Bart Szafnicki follows the news every day. Mainly, it’s because his colleagues will be racing towards the action to break or report on a story. Szafnicki is Vice President Corporate Security for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), which has brands and businesses all over the world, including CNN.
18 percent of workers with office laptops share passwords; More than half don't have a laptop security device. What other security lapses abound in office laptop security?
There will be 350 million employees using their own devices for work by 2014, a new report from Juniper Research says, compared to the current number of 150 million users.
Apple computers have often been considered safe from hackers, but recent malware attacks on OS X systems have Mac users scrambling for security updates.
