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For years, few people knew about HBGary Inc., a Sacramento tech firm working on the esoteric frontiers of cybersecurity. Then a bizarre episode turned the 30-employee firm into a ...
[caption id="attachment_1271" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Fight Cybercrime"][/caption] In a poll of 100 banking executives from 50 US financial institutions attending a ...
[caption id="attachment_1266" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Cyber Hacker"][/caption] What keeps bank executive Mark Brown up at night is the threat of intruders not the ...
[caption id="attachment_1261" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Corporate Cybercrime"][/caption] High profile corporate cybercrime is putting information security on boardroom ...
Over the years we have seen an escalating number of spear-phishing attacks. Part of the increase may actually be due to increased reporting, however, I suspect that even in the criminal ...
[caption id="attachment_1250" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="cybercrime victims"][/caption] You know cybercrime is getting worse when the Chinese claim to be victims! Boohoo, ...
[caption id="attachment_1242" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Cops Get Hacked"][/caption] Anonymous continued its cyber-attacks against law enforcement agencies to protest recent ...
[caption id="attachment_1234" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="cybercrime fighters"][/caption] The international community has failed to address the real nature and extent of the ...
[caption id="attachment_1225" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Shadowy Espionage"][/caption] The world's most extensive case of cybercrime-espionage, including attacks on U.S. ...
Once upon a time being the victim of theft meant that someone picked your pocket, grabbed your purse and ran, or robbed your home. They were there and then gone, along with your ...
[caption id="attachment_1203" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Cybercrime Costs Rising"][/caption] Cybercrime cost corporations 56 percent more this year than last, according to an ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has managed to apprehend two international cybercrime rings that were peddling scareware. The scareware was directed towards numerous victims by ...
The FBI said that cybercrime is the agency's No. 3 priority but it will likely rise to No. 1 in a few years. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Robert White said that criminals always find new ...
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 ...
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. ...
[caption id="attachment_1162" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="orangized cybercrime"][/caption] Following is an excerpt from an article by Rockie Brockway, Security Practice ...
[caption id="attachment_1156" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Hackerville, Romania"][/caption] Following is an excerpt from a fascinating but very scary story that affects s all of ...
[caption id="attachment_1150" align="alignleft" width="192" caption="cybercriminals"][/caption] Last month Russian cybercriminals tried their luck at making money for nothing using the ...
It helps to understand more about the history of hacking, when you need to defend yourself or your organization against cybercrime.
[caption id="attachment_1132" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Congressional Law Makers"][/caption] In mid-May, the Obama administration called on Congress to expand the definition ...
