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The New Threat Data Center Security: The Underground Economy
03.09.2010
In decades past, organizational leadership limited its understanding of the "hacker" to someone looking to cause disruptions or pranks at the expense of an individual, company or government. Their response to such things was to let IT... Read more...
03.09.2010
In decades past, organizational leadership limited its understanding of the "hacker" to someone looking to cause disruptions or pranks at the expense of an individual, company or government. Their response to such things was to let IT... Read more...
Security and Privacy? Forget About It
03.09.2010
As the Obama administration grapples with the thorny issue of beefing up the United States' cybersecurity infrastructure, and as security experts warn of impending cyberwarfare, a debate is raging over how much surveillance is enough. One of the... Read more...
03.09.2010
As the Obama administration grapples with the thorny issue of beefing up the United States' cybersecurity infrastructure, and as security experts warn of impending cyberwarfare, a debate is raging over how much surveillance is enough. One of the... Read more...
Protecting Your Critical Infrastructure
03.09.2010
When Google in China experienced repeated cyber-attacks and efforts to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists in January this year, the search engine giant decided not to remain quiet, and instead choose to publicly denounce the... Read more...
03.09.2010
When Google in China experienced repeated cyber-attacks and efforts to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists in January this year, the search engine giant decided not to remain quiet, and instead choose to publicly denounce the... Read more...
In cyber security, confidence does not come cheap
03.09.2010
More money and more cooperation are the building blocks to better cyber security in the UK, believes Tony Dyhouse, director of the Digital Systems KTN – Cyber Security Programme. He tells Mike Lowe what the UK might face if it was hit by a... Read more...
03.09.2010
More money and more cooperation are the building blocks to better cyber security in the UK, believes Tony Dyhouse, director of the Digital Systems KTN – Cyber Security Programme. He tells Mike Lowe what the UK might face if it was hit by a... Read more...
Thailand Approves Credit Card Hacker's Extradition to US
03.08.2010
A Thai court has approved the extradition to the U.S. of a Malaysian man allegedly involved in hacking credit card information, causing massive losses for victims in the U.S. Gooi Kokseng will first be held in Thailand for 30 days in case he decides... Read more...
03.08.2010
A Thai court has approved the extradition to the U.S. of a Malaysian man allegedly involved in hacking credit card information, causing massive losses for victims in the U.S. Gooi Kokseng will first be held in Thailand for 30 days in case he decides... Read more...
The charmed life of cybercrime
03.09.2010
Crimes, scams, and various forms of nonsense are hardly inventions of the digital age. In fact, they are likely as old as human civilization. Wendy M. Grossman examines why criminals are finding it easier to engage in cybercrime over more... Read more...
03.09.2010
Crimes, scams, and various forms of nonsense are hardly inventions of the digital age. In fact, they are likely as old as human civilization. Wendy M. Grossman examines why criminals are finding it easier to engage in cybercrime over more... Read more...
Preying on the desperate, dramatic rise in scams targeting job seekers
03.09.2010
“We’d love for you join our staff.” When you’re unemployed—as a record 10.4 percent of Georgians are—those words allow you to hope that you may soon be able to get a haircut, buy new tires for the car or... Read more...
03.09.2010
“We’d love for you join our staff.” When you’re unemployed—as a record 10.4 percent of Georgians are—those words allow you to hope that you may soon be able to get a haircut, buy new tires for the car or... Read more...
First Allied Pays USD1.95m in fraud case
03.09.2010
First Allied Securities Inc. has agreed to pay USD1.95 million to settle charges that it failed to supervise a broker who allegedly engaged in fraudulent trading, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The settlement is tied to the... Read more...
03.09.2010
First Allied Securities Inc. has agreed to pay USD1.95 million to settle charges that it failed to supervise a broker who allegedly engaged in fraudulent trading, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The settlement is tied to the... Read more...
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges California Man with Cyber-Extortion of New York-Based Insurance Company
03.09.2010
Anthony Digati was arrested on March 6, 2010, on charges of attempting to extort approximately USD200,000 from a New York-based life insurance company by threatening to make false public statements and transmit computer spam in an effort to damage... Read more...
03.09.2010
Anthony Digati was arrested on March 6, 2010, on charges of attempting to extort approximately USD200,000 from a New York-based life insurance company by threatening to make false public statements and transmit computer spam in an effort to damage... Read more...
Remand for Cyta data theft suspects
03.08.2010
Two suspects arrested in connection with the illegal possession of phone records are to remain in custody pending the investigation into the case, police said yesterday. The pair from Limassol, an employee of telecommunications company Cyta and a... Read more...
03.08.2010
Two suspects arrested in connection with the illegal possession of phone records are to remain in custody pending the investigation into the case, police said yesterday. The pair from Limassol, an employee of telecommunications company Cyta and a... Read more...
German conservatives try to gag online media
03.09.2010
A report has tipped up on Heise's online news mag Telepolis saying German conservatives are trying to gag online media ahead of a highly important state election. Heads of the Christian Democrats in Germany's most populated state North-Rhine... Read more...
03.09.2010
A report has tipped up on Heise's online news mag Telepolis saying German conservatives are trying to gag online media ahead of a highly important state election. Heads of the Christian Democrats in Germany's most populated state North-Rhine... Read more...
Sex.com Domain To Be Auctioned
03.09.2010
What is considered by many as among the most valuable domain names in cyberspace will be up for grabs to the public. The sex.com domain will be auctioned at law firm Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP’s office in New York next week after... Read more...
03.09.2010
What is considered by many as among the most valuable domain names in cyberspace will be up for grabs to the public. The sex.com domain will be auctioned at law firm Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP’s office in New York next week after... Read more...
Study Nails Extent of Insecure Software
03.09.2010
What percentage of commercial software would you estimate to be secure? 90 percent... higher? It must be safe if it's being sold commercially, whether for enterprise or consumer applications, right? The actual percentage may shock you. Only 42... Read more...
03.09.2010
What percentage of commercial software would you estimate to be secure? 90 percent... higher? It must be safe if it's being sold commercially, whether for enterprise or consumer applications, right? The actual percentage may shock you. Only 42... Read more...
ICANN: Break internet monopolies
03.09.2010
Rod Beckstrom, chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said while 15 percent of the world’s population lives in Africa, Africans made up less than 7 percent of all Internet users. “We really... Read more...
03.09.2010
Rod Beckstrom, chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said while 15 percent of the world’s population lives in Africa, Africans made up less than 7 percent of all Internet users. “We really... Read more...
Ways to keep kids from seeing inappropriate online content
03.08.2010
Internet filters have been around since the early days of the Web and they can play an important role in preventing young children from accessing inappropriate content. But they're not a replacement for parental involvement — and they're not... Read more...
03.08.2010
Internet filters have been around since the early days of the Web and they can play an important role in preventing young children from accessing inappropriate content. But they're not a replacement for parental involvement — and they're not... Read more...
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