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Why It’s So Hard to Reduce Enterprise Mobile Security Risks – eWeek

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Why It's So Hard to Reduce Enterprise Mobile Security Risks
eWeek
A recent study looks at the shockingly high costs companies can incur as a result of mobile data breaches–and why the problem will only get bigger. Previous. 2 – This Is Not 'Early Days' for Mobile Deployment. Next …
Securing mobile health records remains a significant challengeCSO Online
Enterprises have no protection against mobile malwareBetaNews
Mobile Devices Responsible for Increasing Number of Network BreachesIT Business Edge (blog)
Credit Union Times –Dark Reading –SC Magazine
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Latest Facebook hoax hard to swallow

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Blaming the victim is wrong – wrong, wrong, wrong – except when the victim is a blithering idiot.

For an example of the latter I offer up Facebook users who apparently believe that a major supermarket chain is just flat-out giving away a cartload of groceries. From a report on the website of WCVB Channel 5 in Boston:

The post shows the image of a Wegmans storefront with a false claim that the company is giving away a $ 200 grocery coupon.

“We’re actively working to have this fraudulent post removed from Facebook. We urge consumers not to click it, share it or provide any personal information,” Jo Natale, Wegmans vice president of media relations, said.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Has Equation Group hacked your hard drives? You won’t be able to tell.

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The Equation Group’s ability to reprogram hard-drive firmware leaves corporate security pros unable to trust the devices because they can’t tell whether disks have been compromised or not.

“Once the hard drive gets infected with this malicious payload, it’s impossible to scan its firmware,” says Igor Soumenkov, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. “To put it simply: for most hard drives there are functions to write into the hardware firmware area, but there are no functions to read it back. It means that we are practically blind, and cannot detect hard drives that have been infected by this malware.”

Beyond that, the tampering Equation Group does with the firmware can survive reformatting the disk and reinstalling the operating system, giving it “extreme persistence,” and providing invisible, persistent storage inside the hard drive, according to the Kaspersky report on the Equation Group.

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Network World Tim Greene