February 7, 2012 - Scam artists and cybercriminals are looking to turn romance into profit now that Valentine's Day approaches, possibly taking over your computer in the process. According to ESET researchers in Latin America, we can expect the quest for love to be (continue reading...) Read more
February 2, 2012 - This was my first time heading to the DoD Cyber Crime Conference in Atlanta. The DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) hosts the conference every year. DC3first started as a resource for DoD and Law Enforcement and has grown over the (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2012 - Identity-stealing bank-robbing malware is a growing threat to Britain. That's the conclusion of the UK Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee who have published a report calling on the Government to launch a "prolonged awareness raising campaign to increase public understanding (continue reading...) Read more
January 27, 2012 - Lately, it seems that barely a day goes by when we don’t learn about a major Internet presence taking steps to further erode users’ privacy. The companies with access to our data are tracking us in ways that make Big (continue reading...) Read more
January 25, 2012 - No more jimmying doors with a Slim Jim, bricks through windows, extracting lock cylinders with a dent puller, or hot-wiring ignitions. Automobiles today are being built to include wireless capabilities that allow for remote unlock, remote start, and of course, (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - First of all, as we are still in time, let me wish you all a healthy, wealthy and Happy New Year! I hope you had a nice and well deserved break after this bumpy year 2011. On my side, I (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - As increasing sectors of the internet migrate to Facebook as a deployment platform (Zygna, etc.), a new effort aims to spread the preference aggregation features to include things users either own or would like to own. By allowing users to (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2012 - Yesterday’s announcement by the US Department of Justice that the operators of file-sharing site Megaupload had been indicted for operating a criminal enterprise that generated over $175 million by trafficking in over half a billion dollars of (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2012 - On Christmas Day, 2011, Apple product users were targeted by a major phishing attack. The Mac Security Blog reported, “A vast phishing attack has broken out, beginning on or around Christmas day, with emails being sent with the subject (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2012 - A Romanian who admitted to hacking into NASA servers has received a three-year suspended prison sentence. Being tried in the US wouldn't have guaranteed jail time, so here's hoping the Obama administration wins in its pursuit of a mandatory three-year (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2012 - A mere three years after a South African bank spent $1.8 million on a new fraud-detection system, hackers managed to swindle $6.7 million out from under that system's nose. Although customer funds are thought to be safe, would you actually (continue reading...) Read more
January 18, 2012 - The wrangle between Indian cybercrew The Lords of Dhamaraja and Symantec over a source code breach in 2006 continues. Whatever happened, the fact remains: this was a cybercrime and the "hackers" are the crooks. (continue reading...) Read more
January 17, 2012 - We read that Zappos.com was breached on Sunday, to the tune of 24+ million users’ worth of information. But it seems at first blush they responded well. Of course, a company would hope to never have a breach at (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2012 - It's a little ironic. My earlier blog Autorun and Conficker not dead yet: Threat Trends Report shows that over the whole year, Conficker and INF/Autorun maintained the top two places worldwide according to our ThreatSense.Net® telemetry. This morning I got (continue reading...) Read more
January 11, 2012 - Mobile banking has experienced rapid growth over the last three years, in the U.S., more than doubling from 5% of online adults in 2007 to 12% by June 2010. Furthermore, Forrester predicts that one in five–or 50 million–U.S. adults will (continue reading...) Read more
January 6, 2012 - Real-time situational awareness is vital to securing global cyber systems and helping to protect national security. A global policy is needed which enables companies to collaborate with governments to leverage innovative technology solutions that combine and leverage disparate datasets to (continue reading...) Read more
December 29, 2011 - Recently we noted that unencrypted credit card storage was on the rise in 2011, and also highlighted the expense involved to the company in the event of a credit card breach. Now we see personal data – including (continue reading...) Read more
December 27, 2011 - History is said to be a good indicator of what might come in the future. If you follow trends in how things are done and what tends to gain momentum then you can get a pretty good idea of what’s (continue reading...) Read more
December 23, 2011 - Exactly how people will abuse digital technology for their own ends is difficult to predict, but organizations must plan ahead to protect data and systems. That's why we have been posting our "best guess" cybersecurity predictions on the Threat Blog (continue reading...) Read more
December 21, 2011 - Ransomware, the practice of providing fake notifications that “you’re infected” and then selling a fake solution that removes the fake malware they just installed, has been a boon for scammers. Now, they’re taking it a step farther, throwing in a (continue reading...) Read more