We report on the latest trends in cybercrime to help you stay informed and aware of what the current threat landscape looks like.
The fake cashier's check scam has gotten more sophisticated. Cathy Bussewitz at the pressdemocrat site reported on this one: "It usually starts when a seller posts a big-ticket item on ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Editor's Corner
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
