Growing mobile Wi-Fi hotspots pose threats to enterprises

Typical Wi-Fi hotspot sites are fixed and are restricted to cafes, airports, hotels, hospices, restaurants, departmental stores, parks and other public areas. But in the most recent times, a new class of Wi-Fi hotspots, usually known as mobile hotspots, is getting famous. Mobile Wi-Fi (Mi-Fi) hotspots are private devices which simply can be carried and set up at any convenient place, to provide net access to a controlled number of Wi-Fi users and devices.
Commercialization of transportable Wi-Fi devices is the key driving factor behind skyrocketing mobile Wi-Fi hotspot options. Some of these are stand alone devices, while others can be set up in software on a PDA, laptop PC/Netbooks or a smartphone.

Dell applies virtualization to improve enterprise security

Dell has applied application virtualisation technology to Firefox so that it can offer companies what it claims is a secure browsing experience. The Dell KACE Secure Browser, which is available for download for no cost, wants to boost enterprise security while introducing firms to the P.C maker's recently bought systems management appliance division. The technology provides users with a virtual example of a Web browser application, thus reducing exposure to drive-by malicious software attacks from internet sites hosting evil code, an increasingly frequent strategy for malicious software distribution.
"By running the browser in a virtual instance, the browser and any activity resulting from its use are separated from the endpoint keeping the actual computer and operating system free of changes that would normally occur," Dell KACE explains. The Secure Browser can be centrally employed and managed through Dell KACE's K1000 Management Appliance. The unit means to deliver a Web Explorer version of the technology later.

Black Hat Security Conference: New security tools for enterprises

The method known as Google hacking is getting a reboot. With Google hacking, analysts dig through the search site with specialised questions to find vulnerabilities on internet sites. Here at the Black Hat security conference, analysts Rob Ragan and Francis Brown from security firm Stach & Liu detailed their new efforts for hacking both Google and the Microsoft Bing search website.
The new tools and strategies are meant to offer a rapid alert system for enterprises to help in identifying risk inside their affiliations. The tools include the GoogleDiggity and the BingDiggity projects, which allow users to perform security research with pre-assembled queries to find common threats.

Enterprise Security faces major threat from Web 2.0 applications

More than 80 percent of the security administrators think that Web 2.0 applications of social widgets, networking tools, instant messaging programs are undermining enterprise security. Additionally, one out of five think that employees barely or never consider the effects to enterprise security of entering into these kind of activities as downloading applications from the web, streaming video, or using peer-to-peer file-sharing sites.
These are results that have come from a new survey of more than 2,100 IT security administrators in the US, UK, France, Japan, and Australia.