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• Crime Lab Casts Net Ahead Of Cyber Criminals

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 445
  Public fascination with television’s “CSI” forensic detectives and with the virtual reality depicted in the “Matrix” films may be partly responsible for the high level of interest garnered by a Defense Department contest to solve cyber crimes, according to AFPS’ Judith Snyderman. The Digital Forensics ...
  16 hours ago

• Why There Will Be No Year Of The Cloud

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Dwayne Melancon , Tripwire’s VP of Corporate and Business Development I recently got an email talking about “the year of the cloud.” I call shenanigans. You see, I remember back in the olden days (back in the 1980’s) when magazines and industry luminaries would regularly declare each year to be ...
  16 hours ago

• Anti-Money Laundering for Crime and Terror

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Michael O’Connor, President of IronClad Consulting Historically, to facilitate money laundering criminals opened a legitimate business as a cover, and then used the business account to deposit and legitimize large sums of money. Large deposits into accounts were routinely overlooked by banking ...
  16 hours ago

• Facebook Profile Indexed By Google: Annoys Users

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Meena KarDec. 15, (THAINDIAN NEWS) These days many parents are worried about their child’s addiction to the social networking sites and making friends with strangers with whom they get introduced on the web. The rapid spread of social networking site and the increasing number of cyber crime cases have made people ...
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• Technology And The Advent of Cyber War

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst, IT-Harvest A recent spate of news reports and scholarly publications have discussed the policy aspects of cyber war: offensive versus defensive, military buildup, and appropriate reactions. There have been no reports dealing with the technology of engaging in ...
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• PCI Council Advice on Threat Management

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com Security professionals intuitively think proactively. Our job  is to predict and prevent what the bad guy will do next. My job specifically is to instill this mindset into you, the consumer,  SMB or large corporate ...
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• Report: China Probing Soft Cyber Underbelly

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Tom Groenfeldt , Technology Journalist - Contributor at CIOZone Chinese cyber attacks against the U.S. government and American corporations are increasing sharply, according to a recent study by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission . Established by Congress in 2000, the commission ...
  2 days ago

• Exploring the Social Media Security Quandary

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Mike Meikle , CEO at Hawkthorne Group Social Media (Web 2.0) is on everyone’s lips these days. A million gurus have sprung up nearly overnight to cash in on the phenomena. Social Media has been promoted as the next big trend in productivity enhancement and a key to opening the coffers of ...
  2 days ago

• 10 Holiday Tips For Secure Online Shopping

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com UK officials shut down an amazing 1200 online retailers who scammed millions from unsuspecting shoppers. Most of the sites originated from identity thieves in Asia who tricked victims into believing they were legitimate ...
  4 days ago

• Data Breaches Show PCI DSS Ineffective

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Danny Lieberman , Security Expert and Founder of Software Associates A recent Ponemon survey ( pci-dss-survey-key-findings-final4 ) found 71% of companies don’t consider PCI as strategic, though 79% had experienced a breach. Are these companies assuming that a data security breach is cheaper than the ...
  5 days ago

• Five Facebook Privacy Issues You Should Know About

  
  Tech - for Everyone — Authority: 125
  “Facebook has begun rolling out its new privacy settings to all of its 350 million users. The new settings are supposed to make it easier and simpler to control your information, but the changes are drawing a mix of criticism and praise from privacy watchdogs such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the ...
  6 days ago

• TSA Breach is a Nightmare for Holiday Travel

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  Laura Wilson, JD, CISA , Corporate Liability Editor This week’s revelation that the Transportation Safety Administration exposed its rules for airport security screening online is outrageous. As holiday travel ramps up, the possibilities and repercussions are horrifying. Coupled with the huge ...
  6 days ago

• Shared Threat Monitoring Protects Enterprise

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Michael O’Connor, President of IronClad Consulting Recently, as detailed by Anthony Freed of Information-Security-Resources.com , Larry Clinton of the Internet Security Alliance presented information to Congress regarding security and protecting privacy in cyberspace. First of all, it is encouraging ...
  6 days ago

• Year 2010 to see more convincing malware attacks

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 146
  NEW DELHI — The year gone by has seen a significant rise in the incidence of spam, phishing, botnet activity, and malware. Each year cyber-criminals who have largely succeeded in duping the unsuspecting user, are investing in sophisticated and automated ways to run their operations. It can be safely predicted ...
  1 week ago

• Signature Authorization is Stupid Security

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Ever forge your husband’s signature? Wife’s? Parent’s? Client’s? Do you think the clerk behind the counter at Walmart is skilled in handwriting analysis? I’ve always viewed a signature as a totally ridiculous form of authentication and a total waste of ...
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• Massive TSA Security Breach Revealed

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By BRIAN ROSS and MATT HOSFORD of ABC News Online posting reveals a “how to” for terrorists to fool airport security. In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) inadvertently posted online its entire airport screening procedures manual, including some of the ...
  1 week ago

• For Our Both Mutual Benefit

  
  Tech - for Everyone — Authority: 125
  My regular readers know that I like to post advisories about keeping yourself safer on the Internet. And they know that I hate spam e-mail (see Spam, spam, spam, spam, spammitty spam…) and always warn readers to never click the link. I have warned readers about the fact that spam is still a primary way [...]
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• Cyber Liability Insurance Mitigates Exposure

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Laton McCartney , Editor at CIOZone Four or five years ago, insurance carriers selling cyber-liability insurance had difficulty giving the product away. “CIOs weren’t interested,” Drew Bartkiewicz, vice president of cyber and new media risk at The Hartford ( HIG ), tells CIOZone. “They’d ...
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• Vietnam Tops November Spam Report

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Simon Heron , CISSP Internet Security Analyst Today’s news that a New Zealand national has been ordered to pay $15.5 million US dollars in fines due to his participation in an international spam network , highlights the seriousness with which authorities are starting to take malware production. But it ...
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• GenApple Boasts First Information Brokerage

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 498
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP After the first article was posted at GenApple - which promotes itself as the first information brokerage, Shortinfosec secured an interview with the founder of GenApple - Mr. Mark Hanson. In a summary, the service will need polishing, and GenApple will need ...
  1 week ago

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