Cyber crime is a broad area including sophisticated scams to brute-force electronic muggings. During the past few years, the deeper involvement of organized gangs means the bad guys are getting smarter, using more sophisticated multi-stage tactics and more narrowly targeting their prey. There are several things the online world can count on: Crooks won't keep doing things that don't pay off, will seek the easiest way to make money and they will be ruthless in their initiatives.
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Incidents and exploits crafted by an effective and growing menace are threatening the continuity of and confidence in the very core of our commercial and social infrastructure. In just 90 criminal investigations performed in 2008, where data compromise was confirmed, the Verizon Business RISK team... More >
Social Engineering Testing: It Can Come at Any Time in Many Forms
Lora Bentley spoke with Evolve IP 's Carl Herberger about the importance of testing employee responses to social engineering techniques. In the of the interview, he touched on physical testing and one category of logical testing -- phishing. Here, he describes other types of logical testing... More >
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The advent and wide scale implementation of local area networks and wide area networks in the past 20 years facilitated the migration from standalone workstation to collaborative environments, offering both average users and corporations an ideal and easy-to-use platform for their daily assignments... More >
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This research study finds that Web application issues are an all-too-common problem and examines these Web-based enterprise application issues from two perspectives: that of an online customer and that of a site manager.
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According to Computerworld , a hard drive with seven years' worth of personal information on about 1.5 million customers of Health Net of the Northeast Inc. has been reported missing -- six months after the fact. The hard drive not only contained medical information, but also names, addresses and Social Security... More >
UK Climate Research Unit Hacked
Examiner.com reports that the UK's Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia suffered a security breach in which thousands of e-mails and documents were accessed. The stolen data was posted to a Russian server. According to BBC News , a university spokesman says officials there are aware of the... More >
Report: Chinese Cyber Spying Increasing
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says the Chinese government seems increasingly to be hacking U.S. government and defense industry computer networks to get useful data for its military, reports Reuters. The report notes that China is the most aggressive country engaging in espionage against the... More >
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