Posts Tagged ‘cyberespionage’
IN THE HEADLINES: Cybercrime Costs Society over $1 Trillion
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● April 19, 2011
According to research firm Global Industry Analysts, Inc., this staggering number is the collected sum of all the losses incurred in attacks on individuals, small businesses, corporate giants, and government. It also covers the time and money wasted in responding to these crimes and cleaning up the mess, even then they may be underestimating the [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Can you Spot the Fake Facebook Page
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 30, 2010
If the best minds in our military intelligence community can’t spot a very obvious fake Facebook page, do you think you can do any better? The Washington Times recently exposed how a security consultant created a fake Facebook page for a pretty but non-existent young woman called Robin Page, who claimed she was a “cyber [...]
Profile of the Teenage Hacker
Posted by: ID Guardian in: ● May 10, 2010
Teenage hacking is nothing new. Jonathan James was the first juvenile sent to prison for hacking, and was just 16 years old when he was sentenced to six months in prison in 2000 after he hacked into the computers of NASA’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency. In that same year, a 15-year-old Canadian hacker using the [...]
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