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Fresh from Yahoo News by Steve Weizman: "Interpol president Khoo Boon Hui said on Tuesday that organised international gangs are behind most internet scams and that cyber crime's ...
The personal cloud is poised to eclipse the PC as the hub of consumers' digital lives by 2014 as rapid growth in the use of apps and services introduces a new paradigm for how people ...
WIRED Mag has a great article by Kim Zetter. It boils down to the fact that high-level hackers are able to get and stay in your network. And even if you are able to kick them out, they ...
I just got a 'perk' over at the Klout site, which gives you a score how you do in Social Media. The perk was 50 business cards, each with a different backside if you want to. The company ...
Tracy Kitten over at BankInfoSecurity spotted something interesting in Symantec's recent Internet Security Threat Report. This is the upshot: "Which Internet security threats pose the ...
Kelly Jackson Higgins over at Dark Reading had a very interesting article: "Cyberattacks don't always employ exploited vulnerabilities: Sometimes they prey on weaknesses in the business ...
We have seen crooked Walmart gift card offers before, but now and then I run across one that's craftier than earlier versions. And as usual, you do not get the gift card, but a high dose ...
Just found an article in NetworkWorld by Carolyn Duffy Marsan that is very interesting. Here is a snippet: "One specific skill related to cloud security that's in demand: SAML. The ...
The SANS Computer Forensics and Incident Response team built a real-life network for their students so they could learn how to hack into the network. They put McAfee enterprise endpoint ...
Phishers are now offering fake storage upgrades. Symanted reported: "Customers of popular email service providers have been a common target for phishers for identity theft purposes. ...
Stefanie Hoffman over at Fortinet took the time to summarize the current cybersecurity bills. This fight is far from over, so you might want to take a look at what's cooking at Capitol ...
CyberheistNews Vol 2, #20 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Warn Your Users: NY Traffic Ticket Phish This phish is a ...
Gary Warner just reported: "A new malicious spam campaign has just launched this morning targeting Paypal users. This malware campaign attempts to "social engineer" users into clicking a ...
Symantec contributor Fred Gutierrez shows clearly in this blog post why it can be deadly to click on a .JPG file: "Cybercriminals have continuously evolved their methods throughout the ...
The Lookout Mobile Security Blog pointed out something important. Patty talked about the man who hacked hollywood: "Finding a working e-mail address was a simple process of trial and ...
Matthew Hansen, World-Herald Staff Writer just wrote a great article that illustrates what I have been warning about these last years. It starts out like this: "Imagine for a moment that ...
Marc Weber Tobias, a contributor to Forbes Magazine wrote a very interesting article: "One of our security lab team members is an ex-cyberspook who spent his career in the military doing ...
Chris Boyd over at GFI wrote: "If we survive the Mayan Apocalypse of 2012, does that mean were technically immortals? Ive no idea, but it will probably mean we dont see quite as many ...
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 ...
Steve Ragan at the SecurityWeek site, wrote: "Painless PCI assessments are possible if you work for them. For most CISOs, the pain of an audit is part of the job, but it doesnt have to ...
