Posts Tagged ‘cybercrime’
IN THE HEADLINES: 10 Million NEW Cyber Threats So Far This Year
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 18, 2010
I guess you could be forgiven for giving up the fight against cybercrime when the world seems to be overwhelmed with malware like Trojans and viruses that are able to anticipate our responses and always appear a few steps ahead of us. Security firm McAfee recently confirmed what many of us already knew. Things are [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Stop Serving up Your Data
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● August 17, 2010
Security firm AVG recently discovered a data-stealing botnet, which they quickly named Mumba, that they say has managed to compromise more than 55,000 computers around the world and pilfer a gold mine of personal data including bank account and credit card numbers. Mumba was created and controlled by a cyber criminal gang that call themselves [...]
Weekly News Wrap-Up for 25 June 2010
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 25, 2010
You’ve been breached, again! Yesterday I received yet another notice that my personal information had been compromised in a data breach, someone is being sued, and I’m getting a year’s worth of free credit monitoring for my troubles blah, blah, blah… Seems like I’ve received so many of these notices and offers of free credit [...]
Reflections from a Black Hat Hackers’ Conference (Part One)
Posted by: Michael Stanfield in: ● February 15, 2010
The following special blog post is the reproduction of a note from Intersections VP, of Information Security, Tim Rohrbaugh. OK, so I have been attending the so-called “hacker convention,” Black Hat, off and on since 1998. I usually look forward to the event as one does to the first day of the new year – [...]
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