Five Generations of Cybercrime

Jul 15, 2011 3:33:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It helps to understand more about the history of hacking, when you need to defend yourself or your organization against cybercrime.

Federal Law Overhaul Needed to Fight Todays Cybercrime

Jul 12, 2011 7:42:24 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

[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 ...

Todays Organizational Cyber Security Challenge

Jul 11, 2011 12:37:56 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1126" align="alignleft" width="160" caption="cyber security"][/caption] The most challenging cybercrime attacks exploit human vulnerabilities rather than ...

Ohios Cybercrime Woes

Jul 8, 2011 2:11:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A look at cyberheists and other cybercrimes in Ohio recently shows more than 25,000 private records from school districts, hospitals, retirement benefits firms and others have been ...

Cybercrime Statistics are Bad, But No one Agrees How Bad

Jul 6, 2011 9:29:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1115" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="cybercrime statistical chart"][/caption] The news media, the government, and countless Internet security organizations ...

National and Local Government Debate Cybercrime Issues

Jul 5, 2011 8:33:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

From the White House to Congress, federal leaders are looking at a range of policy options to bolster the United States’ ability to thwart Internet threats ranging from cybercrime to ...

FFIEC Updates Internet Banking Environment Guidelines

Jun 29, 2011 3:01:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Federal banking regulators today released a long-awaited supplement to the 2005 guidelines that describe what banks should be doing to protect e-banking customers from cybercrime, hackers ...

The World Wide Web is being re-branded as the World Wild Web

Jun 27, 2011 6:54:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1070" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="World Wild Web"][/caption] Increasingly, cyber-criminals are using mobile malware and fake apps as monetizing ...

Users Are the Weak Link in IT Security!

Jun 23, 2011 1:17:02 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1060" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Weak Link in IT Security"][/caption] Firewalls and antivirus software can only go so far. Jeff James of Windows IT ...

FBI Finally Shuts Down Major Cybercrime Outfit Coreflood-Botnet

Jun 22, 2011 3:13:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_1054" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="FBI Cybercrime Agent"][/caption] The FBI has scrubbed some 19,000 PCs that were infected with the Coreflood bot ...

Bank Gets Sued Over $2,000,000 Cyberheist

Jun 20, 2011 3:14:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A judicial decision came down last week from a District Court in Michigan. Experi-Metal fell victim to a major cyberheist and then sued their bank (Comerica) over a nearly $2,000,000 ...

Cybercrime on the U.S. Senate

Jun 17, 2011 4:07:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

On Monday, the U.S. Senate confirmed a branch of its website was breached by a hacker group. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Reid and House Speaker Boehner appear disheartened in photo. Its ...

U.S. Government is asking the High-Tech Business Sector to Fight Cybercrime

Jun 15, 2011 2:23:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The U.S. Department of Commerce is asking big technology players with significant online presence to develop and adopt a code of conduct to help stop cybercrime. The Department of ...

U.S. Company Suffers a $588,000 Cyberheist Judge Says Too Bad

Jun 10, 2011 2:22:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_994" align="alignleft" width="262" caption="Cyber Judge"][/caption] Cyber security experts are expressing serious concern over a decision on a cyberheist lawsuit ...

The Stakes Rise in the War on Cybercrime

Jun 8, 2011 1:58:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_986" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="North America Cyber Crime"][/caption] The U.S. government just very recently broadened its definition of what ...

Cybercrime Sophistication Borne Out by Recent Google Gmail Attack

Jun 6, 2011 6:28:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_980" align="alignleft" width="308" caption="gmail-phishing"][/caption] In the cybercrime war being fought across international boundaries, the recent Gmail hack of ...

Scotland Yard launches New Cyber Squad Unit

Jun 4, 2011 10:51:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_972" align="alignleft" width="191" caption="Scotland Yard Cybercrime Unit"][/caption] Janet Williams of Scotland Yards Cybercrime Unit, who takes the lead on ...

Opening the Network to Cybercrime: The 10 Biggest Security Breaches of 2011 to Date

May 30, 2011 3:00:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_959" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Network Cybercrime"][/caption] Despite the valiant efforts of network security companies and the vigilance of IT ...

Phishing Attacks Keep Proliferating: How to Recognize Them

May 27, 2011 3:38:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_949" align="alignleft" width="237" caption="Phishing Attacks"][/caption] There is an article in eWEEK that highlights the gravity and growth of cybercrime. It ...

Phishing Your Own Employees is a Must!

May 25, 2011 3:35:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Following is an excerpt from SC Magazine: For IT Security Professionals. It highlights the importance of educating organizational employees against the tactics cybercriminals will use to ...

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