Ventura County, California, is a small small county (population: 802,983 according to 2009 numbers from the US Census Bureau) north of the greater Los Angeles area. According to a March ...
In a recent 3/23/2011 article entitled " Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominent Websites; Traced to Iran," Wired Threat Level reports on a spectacular cyberheist of credentials ...
Talk about turning classwork into pure gold and professional kudos: Norwich University undergraduate student and ROTC cadet Bradley Guinen has teamed up with his instructor and ...
The infamous Rustock botnet, estimated by some parties to be responsible for between 30 and 50 percent of all the spam in the world—up to 30 BILLION items per day—has been taken down. ...
Report #51 from Symantec, the "State of Spam & Phishing" for March 2011 is out. From the phishing side, the news is grim but not unexpected. Phishing is up 38.56% for the month, ...
In the ongoing game of cops-and-robbers that network security so often involves, the cops have recently upped the ante on phishing detection in modern Web browsers. These days browsers ...
The insurance industry trade Web site insuranceheadlines.com recently republished a fascinating story from Bloomberg dated June 18, 2010. It's entitled "Banking's big dilemma: How to stop ...
Internet threat management company M86 Security recently announced a brand-new small business security suite that promises to help small businesses get a workable handle on their security ...
Heh! Heh! We're not sure if we were alarmed by the content in this recent CrunchGear blog post, or captivated by the cute "malweb critter" used to give the story a little visual interest ...
This is a a good news/bad news blog. The good news is that because April 15 falls on a Friday this year, the filing deadline has been extended until April 18. The bad news is with tax ...
An interesting tidbit has emerged from the eCrime Trends Report for Q4-2010 from online security firm Internet Identity (aka IID). Over the Christmas holidays, an online payment ...
According to this story at CSOOnline. com (" More Mobile Spyware Hits Android"), security software firm NetQin Mobile, Inc. has captured a pair of new spyware programs from the wild that ...
[caption id="attachment_343" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The latest IC3 Internet Crime Report makes for interesting reading"] [/caption] Last week, the Internet Crime ...