Posted by Jason Remillard on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 @ 12:35 PM
A note about transparency and a Special Offer to ControlScan Customers
By now, many have become aware of the settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and ControlScan.
From companies specifically created to sell seals without doing ANY scanning or verification what so ever, to individuals and businesses misrepresenting their status at the Better Business Bureau ; there is long and sorry history of this type of deceptive practice. It is refreshing to see the FTC finally catching up to some of these people. The deceptive and fraudulent actions of a few tarnish the hard work and honesty of the rest of us. Rarely does a day go by that I don't have to answer a question in one form or another about whether we're for real, and can we prove that we actually do scans. These are honest inquiries that I can not fault.
The FTC ruling against ControlScan for their past activities and inactivity, will not help us with this.
Adding to the questions about our legitimacy, there will now be lingering doubt in some people's mind about scanning frequencies. To clarify, yes we really do scan for Malware every single day. We really do scan for Web Vulnerabilities at preset schedules. For most of our customers, that's everyday too. In your Control Panel, you can see when the last Malware scan was completed and also when your last Web Vulnerability scan was completed.
For those of you reading this that are ControlScan customers who still have some natural lingering doubts about the service you're getting, we'd like to help set your minds at ease. To be clear, we have no reason to doubt that ControlScan is providing you with scans. We do know that they scan only for known vulnerabilities and not for the lastest and fastest growing segment of security challenges, Malware.
So to ControlScan customers we'd like to offer you 50% off the package of your choice, with no obligation. Simply contact me either by phone at 717-704-0061 or email and I'll be happy to answer any questions that you might have, to get your sites enrolled immediately and to hopefully restore for you some peace of mind.
Doug McDonald
VP Sales & Business Development
SiteSecurityMonitor.Com
Posted by Jason Remillard on Wed, Jan 20, 2010 @ 07:34 AM
It’s becoming quite clear that this is an age of increased malware
and security threats. The news is becoming more and more flooded with
these kinds of reports and many of them are from reputable companies
that end up looking stupid because of a vulnerability on their website.
Of course, we already know many good reasons to get added security for
your website: keeping your site safe and reliable, putting your
customers at ease, and all of these kinds of things that I’ve said many
times before. The important thing right now is that the U.S. Federal
Trade Commission is offering you a new reason… you could end up being
fined.
An article today (which can be found at the end) announced that
ChoicePoint, a databroker, is being fined $275,000 because their data
was breached a second time. Now many of you may not be in a situation
where your site being exploited would actually result in you being
fined, but any company that’s in a situation where you have other
people’s information, any information, could result in serious losses.
Of course, these are already on top of other losses, like ones noted in an ITworld article:
“The latest versions of Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer browser and Google’s search engine detect sites
infected with malware, issue a warning and block access to the site.
‘To me, this is serious online brand damage,’ says Garter analyst John
Pescatore, and it can be disastrous for small and midsize businesses
that totally depend on search engine traffic. The next frontier, says
Dye, may be attackers who use these types of exploits against the Web sites of high-profile brands and then publicize — or threaten to publicize — what happened.”
Don’t take risks with your website. It may run flawlessly today and
it may run flawlessly tomorrow, but if your site is not insecure, it
could cost you. And sadly, more and more companies are discovering this
right now.
Don’t be one of them.
Via: http://www.cso.com.au/article/322712/choicepoint_pay_fine_second_data_breach?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1 and http://www.itworld.com/security/81482/hijacked-web-sites-attack-visitors