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McAfee Says Small, Midsize Business Sweats Security Too Little. You Agree?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 04:15 PM ET | Jul 23, 2008

A new survey from security firm McAfee warns that small and midsize businesses don't consider themselves to be targets for cybercrime. Do their findings match your feelings? Let's hope not.

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Business & E-Business | IT | Internet/Web | Security | bMighty

Picture This: The New bMighty Imaging How-To Center

Posted by Fredric Paul 04:08 PM ET | Jul 21, 2008

Despite repeated promises that the paperless office is just around the corner, the true paperless office remains "just around the corner." Nevertheless, bMighty's brand new Imaging How-To Center can show you how to leverage document imaging to save money, improve your company's workflow, and even go a little green.

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Green Business | Hardware & Software | Imaging How-To | bMighty

New Media Trojan Exploits Bad Old Piracy, P2P Habits

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:33 AM ET | Jul 11, 2008

A particularly aggressive new Trojan takes advantage of the oldest of vulnerabilities -- human nature. Hiding in pirate software sites, the Trojan infects the music and video files of illegal software seekers, then spreads when those files are peer-shared.

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Server Hijack Problem Prompts Unified Industry Response

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:58 PM ET | Jul 9, 2008

The show of patch-unity displayed by many of the industry's major players in addressing a domain name sever flaw is gratifying -- and annoying too. Nice to see them working together. Nicer if we knew more about the problem they're working to fix.

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Watch your Back -- And Your Back-Office: Insider Threats More Than Double

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:02 AM ET | Jul 7, 2008

Insider threats increased by more than 100 percent over the past year, according to a new report. The percentage of identity breaches attributed to insider crime or error far exceeds those caused by external hackers.

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bMighty Moves bForward

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:22 PM ET | Jun 13, 2008

bMighty.com has just launched a new microsite called bForward.com, Technology Innovation for the Small Enterprise. Sponsored by AT&T, bForward offers useful articles, tools, whitepapers and case-studies from bMighty, AT&T, and others.

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Mobile | Networking & Communications | bMighty

Gartner Looks At Security's Long-Range Future And Finds It Coming At Us Fast

Posted by Keith Ferrell 04:43 PM ET | Jun 2, 2008

We spend so much time responding to -- or reacting to -- daily security threats and challenges that it's all too easy to overlook (or just plain avoid) taking a long-range look at the security future. Gartner points out that such denial is a mistake, a big one, with long-range consequences.

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Secure Computing Tells Where Your Biggest Insecurity Is: Inside Your Company, That's Where!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:01 AM ET | May 29, 2008

What are IT security professionals most scared of? Their companies' own employees, that's what.

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Women In Business Are A Hot Topic

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 04:01 PM ET | May 28, 2008

Yesterday, on bMighty a businesswoman was front and center. Today, on SmallBizResource you'll find the third installment of Wednesday's Woman. A coincidence? Hardly. Women and business are hot and not likely to cool anytime soon.

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Entrepreneurs | Sales/Marketing | Women in Business | bMighty

LIVE TODAY: bMighty bConnected Virtual Expo for Smaller Business

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:45 AM ET | May 22, 2008

Being connected is everything for smaller businesses -- without connections to customers, to partners, to suppliers, to employees, and to the market, business grinds to a halt. Today (May 22), bMighty presents bMighty bConnected, an interactive online event all about being connected and communicating. You can join the virtual expo right from your desktop.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Mobile | Networking & Communications | bMighty

CompTIA Survey: What Causes Most Breaches Is The Same Thing The Road To Hell Is Paved With

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:43 AM ET | May 22, 2008

Findings from a new survey indicate that most security breaches aren't the result of malicious intent. Problem is, more than a few are the result of good intentions.

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Think Before You Toss: Symantec Security Tips On Computer Disposal

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:06 PM ET | May 20, 2008

Getting rid of old computers gets trickier every day. A Symantec podcast offers three minutes' worth of good advice on how to do so safely.

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Check Point Pushes Virtualized Browser Protection

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:58 AM ET | May 19, 2008

Browser vulnerabilities and threats -- malware, drive-by downloads, etc. -- is fast becoming the new security battleground. A new Check Point Technologies release promises that this will be a new security products battleground too.

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bMighty bConnected: We're Hosting A Free Virtual Expo!

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:02 PM ET | May 15, 2008

Communications and connectivity are critical components for many small and midsize businesses, so on Thursday May 22 bMighty is gathering top vendors and analysts to share their insight, understanding, and best practices in an interactive online event available right from your desktop.

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Symantec Spam Report: April Was The Cruelest Month

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:42 AM ET | May 15, 2008

Symantec's monthly Spam Report is out, just in time to remind us of what our queues and filters and networks all know -- spam is up and so, most likely is the blood pressure of everyone who has an e-mail account.

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McAfee Spam Experiment Results: Spam Is Bad And There's Lots Of It

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:47 AM ET | May 14, 2008

All spam all the time -- that's what volunteers for McAfee's Global S.P.A.M (Spammed. Persistently. All. Month.) experiment looked for, and that's what they got when they turned in their brand-new, completely unprotected machines and opened themselves to the deluge.

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More On Disaster Recovery: Mind The Gaps In Your Plans

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:49 PM ET | May 7, 2008

We've talked a lot here about disaster recovery, and almost as much about planning for disaster recovery. In considering these, it's well-worth considering -- and looking for -- any hidden gaps or vulnerabilities that might bring even the best-laid plans to grief.

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How Prepared Are You For Disaster Recovery?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:21 PM ET | May 2, 2008

If your business got hit by a natural disaster that resulted in your "losing everything" -- would that "everything" include your company's digital records and history? It shouldn't.

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McAfee And PlumChoice DoubleTeam For Remote Business Tech Services

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:44 AM ET | Apr 24, 2008

The latest alliance targeting small and midsize business tech-needs is McAfee's just-announced linkup with PlumChoice to provide on-demand tech services to, well, to you.

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Hard Drive Encryption Becomes Loaded-Laptop Hard Drive Feature

Posted by Keith Ferrell 03:07 PM ET | Apr 23, 2008

With nearly three-quarters of a million laptop and notebook computers lost or stolen each year, there's a better than good argument for equipping yourself and your remote staff with encrypted disks on their portable gear.

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Hardware & Software | Mobile | Security | bMighty

Ooops -- Microsoft Nags More Office Users Than It Meant To

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:12 AM ET | Apr 21, 2008

Microsoft's latest attempt to track down illegitimate copies of its programs -- in this case Office -- went a bit (and way more than a bit) farther than the company intended last week when it released an Office piracy detector worldwide, instead of to the four countries the program targeted.

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CEO Spam Scam: Phishing For Big Fish

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:19 PM ET | Apr 16, 2008

A new targeted spam campaign uses fake federal subpoenas to trick CEOs into clicking on a malware link. One source indicates that 15-20,000 spams went out. And amazingly, about 10 percent of the recipients responded!

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Thumbs Down: Flash Drives Are Bigger Threat Than Many Of You Know

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:00 AM ET | Apr 14, 2008

The sheer convenience and affordability of flash drives is matched -- and more than matched -- by the threat potential they possess. And that's according to one of the drives' leading manufacturers.

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Bots Gone Wild: Handful Of Botnets Run A Million Machines

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:34 AM ET | Apr 10, 2008

How many botnets does it take to grab a million computers and use them to send out billions (and billions and billions) of spams a day? Less than a dozen, according to one security expert.

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Manage Your Risk Before It Mangles Your Business

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:58 PM ET | Mar 31, 2008

Informationweek has a good long piece on risk management that will more than repay your attention -- if only in calling your attention to the rapidly evolving nature of risk management -- and the risks we all need, or at least seek, to manage.

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