The FBI has arrested a New York City police detective for stealing the login details of at least 30 people (including 21 NYPD employees, 19 of them officers), across 43 email accounts and one cell phone. He did it by hiring a contract hit man, of sorts.
23 May 2013
The latest Crime Survey for England and Wales produced by the Office for National Statistics shows that theft of mobile devices is still rising: 2% of all phone owners have had a mobile phone stolen within the last twelve months.
23 May 2013
As cyber-risks continue to evolve in sophistication and complexity, and as cyber-espionage becomes a more common reality, information risk has been making its way onto the boardroom agenda. According to the Information Security Forum (ISF), chief information security officers (CISOs) need to engage with their boards to ensure their organizations understand and manage information risk appropriately while delivering on their strategic objectives.
23 May 2013
With many organizations rushing to formulate their own advanced persistent threat (APT) prevention plans, recent data show that a lack of attention to systematically managing cryptographic keys and certificates is still leaving the attack door wide open.
23 May 2013
When he learned that he was being made redundant from his position as Community Health Promotions Manager at a council-run leisure center, he emailed sensitive medical information on 2471 people to himself to help establish his own new company.
23 May 2013
In a tweet yesterday and accompanying blog, Twitter announced that it has joined other large cloud companies in offering two-factor authentication.
23 May 2013
A Congressional survey of utility companies shows that the US electric grid is warding off “daily,” “constant” and “frequent” cyber-attacks, including one power company that reported it is the target of around 10,000 attempted attacks each month.
22 May 2013
Global financial information company and credit score keeper Experian has implemented new security controls to drive cyber-risk out of its social media activities, in an effort to safeguard consumer information.
22 May 2013
The Microsoft Malware Protection center is shifting its research focus away from predicting test samples and instead focussing on prevalence-weighted response and family research.
22 May 2013
Starting with the Anonymous Operation Payback in 2010, in retaliation for what many consider the illegal financial blockade of WikiLeaks, DDoS as a weapon of dissent has increasingly become a part of life on the internet.
22 May 2013