Critical Update for Adobe Flash Player

Brian Krebs, Washington Post: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/07/critical_update_for_adobe_flas.html

Forty-Four Percent of US SMBs Admit to Falling Victim to Cybercrime, According to Latest Panda Security Survey

29 percent of US small and medium-sized businesses lack antispam, 22 percent have no antispyware and 16 percent operate without a firewall - 50 percent lost time or productivity as a result of being infected - 39 percent of respondents said either they or their employees have not received training about IT threats that could affect them. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/FortyFour-Percent-of-US-SMBs-prnews-2714742551.html?x=0&.v=1

Social Networking Sites Must Improve Their Security, Says Security Firm

IT security and data protection firm Sophos has called upon social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook to do more to protect their millions of users, as new research is published examining the first six months of cybercrime in 2009.http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Web-20-Woe-Sophos-Threat-bw-957043460.html?x=0&.v=1

What CEOs Don't Know About Cybersecurity: A new study hints at how often cyberthreats aren't communicated to the boss.

Forbes Magazine: Being the chief executive has its privileges. And one of them may be a blissful ignorance of your company's data breach risks.

According to a study to be released Tuesday by the privacy-focused Ponemon Institute, companies' chief executives tend to value cybersecurity just as--if not more--highly than their executive colleagues. But ... the CEOs interviewed in Ponemon's survey seemed especially unconcerned about cybercrime as a source of data breaches. While 31% named stolen PCs or thumb drives as a source of data loss, only 3% cited malicious hackers as the top threat for their company's data security--about a fifth as many as the lower level employees who cited cybercriminals as the most important threat.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/13/poneman-cybersecurity-breaches-technology-security-poneman.html?partner=alerts

Taking On Small-Business Identity Theft

Business Week: It's a big problem that companies are loath to discuss. But California's amended identity theft laws show that offering protections to smaller companies on par with those for individuals helps tremendously.

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jul2009/db2009079_858536.htm