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VIDEO The Top 5 Online Security Traps And How To Avoid Them

GFI is one of the few antivirus vendors that understands the importance of prevention and end-user training. They produced this useful video that in two minutes illustrates the top 5 ...

Gmail Security Hole Allows Hackers To Automate Social Engineering Trick

Christopher Mims over at Technology Review was the first one to report on this. A large Gmail security hole could lead to mass harvesting of accounts, as hackers can automate this social ...

Fake Facebook “Account Cancelation Requests” Lead to Malware

Softpedia reported: "A shady-looking email, apparently originating from Facebook, has been seen in inboxes, informing users that the social media network has received an account ...

How to Start an IT Security Awareness Program

Mike Chapple is an IT professional and assistant professor of computer applications at the University of Notre Dame. He wrote at biztechmagazine:"Are your users aware of their ...

Weak passwords STILL subvert IT security

Jaikumar Vijayan over at Computerworld observed correctly: "A recent data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers of more than 280,000 people served as yet another reminder of the ...

Cost of penetration testing < cost of security incident :)

The Cost of a Security Incident Is Usually Much Greater Than Preventing It This is a blog post by John Pescatore, July 24, 2009, and still as valid today as it was then. "A few years ago ...

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 ...


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