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RSA Post-mortem: Massive Human Component To Security

George Hulme wrote on the CSO site: "There was an unusual level of gloom at the RSA Conference this year, and for good reason: a number of the biggest and most respected security firms ...

Message For The Owner: "Your Bank Account Emptied By Cyber Thieves"

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Facebook Malware Scam Of The Week

Editor's Corner Facebook Malware Scam of the Week A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and ...

The Security Earthquake That Nobody Felt

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And The #1 Security Risk for 2012 Is...

Humans are the weakest link that needs to be healed. New laws aimed at improving IT data security are being written by the bushel, loaded with penalties for non-compliance and security ...

Google, What Happened To "Do No Evil?"

Cybercrime Crimewave Hits Churches

Cybercriminals are truly criminals and are the antithesis of the Robin Hood criminal of storybooks. Stealing money raised by a church to help homeless and abused women is pretty low. But ...

Cybercrime Profit from Norway Tragedy

Within 24 hours of the recent bombing and shootings in Norway, Internet thieves were committing cybercrimes by sending out phishing emails to collect donations to aid victims. ...

Cybercrime: Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011 Introduced in US Senate

It was great to read that the "Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011" was recently introduced in the US Senate. The purpose of the bill is to raise the public's security awareness, ...

$20 Million Stolen in Cyberheists from SMEs, Money Sent to China

The FBI reported this week that between March 2010 and April 2011, cyberthieves drained approximately $20 million from the accounts of US-based small to medium enterprises (SMEs) via ...

77 Million Network Accounts for Sony PlayStation Compromised by Daring Cybercrime

This morning the news is ablaze with reports of a hack into Sony's PlayStation Network, with numerous media outlets proclaiming that as many as 77 million customer accounts have been ...

Do Your PCs Come With "For Rent" Signs for Cyberthieves?

Brian Krebs is a former reporter on the information security beat for The Washington Post who now runs his own Website KrebsOnSecurity.com in Northern Virginia. IN a recent (4/8/2011) ...

Check Out These Top 10 Small Business Anti-Cybercrime Tools

Internet.com is a respected information technology publication that's been active on the Web since the late 1990s. Their spin-off Website SmallBusinessComputing.com is a great source for ...

Three Quarters of All SMB Banking Cybercrime Happens Online

A recent study entitled "The 2011 Business Banking Trust Study" reports that three of every four small and midsized businesses that experienced banking fraud in the previous year incurred ...

Cybercrime: Bank of America Joins Trusteer Ranks

Look what just showed up in my colleague's e-mail inbox this morning: I wrote in moderate detail about Trusteer in a blog post right here entitled " Cyberheist Snippet 4: More on Trusteer ...

Cybercrime: Ventura County, CA Credit Card Tax Payment System Hacked

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 ...

Successful certificate cybercrime obtains legit Web certificates

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 ...

Cybercrime: Fascinating 3-Part Series on Russian Cyber-Mafia in NetworkWorld

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 ...

Rustock Botnet Cybercrime Takedown, Thanks to MS-Led Multi-Party Effort

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. ...

Symantec's Latest 'State of Spam & Phishing' Report

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, ...


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