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Online Money Mules Aide Theft and Fraud
Information Security Resources —
Authority: 533
By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Mules are relatively unaware people who get hooked into a “small business” or employment that is a function of a criminal enterprise. The mules often respond to “help wanted” ads from online job placement sites. Shipping scams are a common tactic ...17 hours ago -
Data Security: House Of Reps. Passing P2P Bill? Secure Federal File Sharing Act
AlertBoot Endpoint Security —
Authority: 132
A bill was introduced this week by Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee. The bill, the Secure Federal File Sharing Act, is aimed at restricting the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) software by government employees and contractors. (If they could only do something ...18 hours ago -
Effective Security Policy Messaging Important
Information Security Resources —
Authority: 533
By Christopher Burgess , Senior Security Adviser End users tuning you out? Here’s a three-step process for taking human factors into account in your security program (and even using them to your advantage). Let us begin with the premise that security policies exist to protect an entity’s assets as it ...1 day ago -
Windows Security Logs and MS Log Parser
Information Security Resources —
Authority: 533
By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP When investigating an intrusion in a Windows system, one of the first places to start is the Windows security log. Security event log is also very useful for analysis when searching for anomalies and possible intrusions. Reading through a Windows security log ...1 day ago -
How to make a career in information security field a long term success
IT answers —
Authority: 458
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Virtualization is Real
Pete Silva —
Authority: 107
I remember back-in-the-day when Virtual meant ‘almost,’ ‘simulated’ or ‘in essence’ as in, ‘I’m virtually there.’ Today, as it has made it’s way into computer terminology, it can mean actual or real things that are done over computers. Virtualization has been the main enabler of Cloud ...1 day ago -
HTTPS Data Exposure - GET vs POST
Information Security Short Takes —
Authority: 418
Here is a quick chart showing the data exposure when considering GET vs POST and also HTTP vs HTTPS. URL arguments refer to arguments in the URL for GET or POST (e.g. foo.com?arg1=something). Body arguments refer to data communicated via POST paramaters in the HTTP request body. NOTE: This chart does not ...2 days ago -
ATM on Craigslist Loaded with Card Data
Information Security Resources —
Authority: 533
By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert After the Vegas DEFCON ATM debacle where hackers hacked hackers by setting up a fake ATM in front of the facilities security office, I needed to see how stupid easy it was to buy and ATM and just set it up anywhere. So my search began. I started looking on ...2 days ago -
ISAlliance: Cyber Security is Economic Issue
Information Security Resources —
Authority: 533
By Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor Internet Security Alliance President Larry Clinton joined several other prominent information security advocates to provide testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security Tuesday. ...2 days ago -
Orchestrated Thievery: Over 2000 ATMs Targeted
Infosecurity.US —
Authority: 135
News , of the hack, crack and subsequent theft, of significant funds utilizing thousands of compromised ATMs. More information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation appears, inclusive of apropos linkage, after the jump. HIGH-TECH HEIST 2,100 ATMs Worldwide Hit at Once It was a highly sophisticated and ...2 days ago -
Drive By: NIST updates information security guidelines
Liquidmatrix Security Digest —
Authority: 121
From Nextgov: The first revision to Special Publication 800-37 — “Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life-Cycle Approach” — will help agencies comply with the 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act, which requires them to identify and take ...2 days ago -
CLLB: Information Security Newsletter
Criminal Law Library Blog —
Authority: 129
Volume 2 Number 11 November 2009 Online Holiday Shopping Tips From the Desk of David Badertscher Online Holiday Shopping Tips The holiday season is approaching quickly and many of us will be shopping online. comScore estimates that in one day alone last year --Cyber Monday on December 1--$846 million was spent in ...3 days ago -
Update: Ohio town gets its free WiFi back!
FinanceTechNews.com —
Authority: 131
A flood of bad publicity surrounding the shutdown of free WiFi service in the tiny Ohio town of Coshocton has apparently resulted in the service being re-instated — for now. After a user of the service illegally downloaded a movie using the connection, the powers that be in Coshocton (population: about 12,000) got ...3 days ago -
PCI DSS Compliance and the Major Payment Brands | What you may NOT Know
Regulatory Compliance, Governance and Security —
Authority: 110
Merchants and service providers seeking to become Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) compliant may not actually know that the five (5) major payment brand also have their own security risk management and compliance programs. However, rest assured that, by and large, these security risk ...3 days ago -
Security Briefing – November 18th
Liquidmatrix Security Digest —
Authority: 121
Morning all! Sorry to be so spotty lately on posts, I’ve been on the road a lot (flying out again today!). I hope you all miss me as much as I miss you. Keep on keepin’ on. Matt Click here to subscribe to Liquidmatrix Security Digest! . And now, the news… Metasploit Framework 3.3 released! – ...3 days ago -
Data Security: T-Mobile Experiences A Data Breach...But Not Really
AlertBoot Endpoint Security —
Authority: 132
There are many aspects to data security, like the use of drive encryption software , antivirus software, firewalls, etc. However, the biggest and central one is monitoring. Basically, making sure that things are going as planned, and looking to see if anything has gone awry. Otherwise, one may end up ...3 days ago -
Innovative Analytic Tool Empowers Investors
Information Security Resources —
Authority: 533
By Anthony M. Freed , Information-Security-Resources.com Managing Editor An innovative new investor analytic tool made its public debut today, and it offers an exciting look at what may well be the future of online trading for both market experts and arm-chair analysts alike. Trefis , named for ...3 days ago -
SaaS and the Need for Enterprise Architecture
Information Security Resources —
Authority: 533
Coby Royer, Technical Product Manager for Symplified Does SaaS Diminish the Need for Enterprise Architecture? This is a good question, but we have to understand what is meant by Enterprise Architecture (EA). It is generally accepted to be a discipline and sometimes that strategically aligns an ...3 days ago -
Novell’s Global Partnership with Atos Origin Supports New SAP Joint Offering
Novell Open PR —
Authority: 490
The IT infrastructure is a mass of incompatible systems with unique risk controls and policies, making compliance and risk management complex, time-consuming and costly. To address this, we recently expand our global partnership with SAP to help customers deliver confident business and IT governance, risk and ...3 days ago -
How to Trust Cloud Computing
Information Security Short Takes —
Authority: 418
Cloud Computing is becoming more and more the buzzword of every conference, meeting and article. Yet it is still in its inception, and there are multitude of issues and problems. Cloud services are springing up like mushrooms after rain, and all the big players want a piece of the pie. Dark Reading discusses ...4 days ago
