cybersecurity

Last week, a gang of cyber criminals perpetrated a $45 Million fraud by hacking their way into prepaid card systems at several banks and extracting their take via ATM machines in 26 countries. The US portion of the scam took place courtesy of ATM’s mostly in the Northeast, giving too much publicity to the ensuing spending spree and clearly illustrating the risk that needs to be addressed via the EMV standard.[read more]

Instead of relying on exclusively on locks–and waiting for the new locks to be installed—companies need to invest in proactive monitoring to complement the locks. Just like in the physical world, this virtual “police force” looks for suspicious patterns and attempts in the neighborhood and, by learning how the criminals behave across multiple locations, can stop them before they even reach your door.[read more]

As you may have heard by now, The Onion recently became the latest in a string of large news organizations to be attacked and have their Twitter hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. They were able to regain control fairly quickly, but in a surprising twist, they also decided to publish a blog post detailing how their security was breached.[read more]

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Social networking isn’t just a trend that is going to go away – it is here to stay. Learn how to keep yourself protected from outside threats while still using the social networking sites you know and love. It is always important to monitor your credit so that you know if you have been targeted by identity thieves.[read more]

Last month, President Obama energized the national dialogue by highlighting cybersecurity in his State of the Union address and by issuing an executive order that directs federal regulators to provide better cybersecurity for banking, telecommunications, energy and other industries.[read more]

“This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident,” stated Bob Lord, Twitter director of information security. “The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.”[read more]

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With the announcement of BlackBerry 10, many are wondering if the company can, once again, offer businesses something that no other phone can. BlackBerry has always offered a level of security that many businesses felt was worth investing in. Even if the phones were annoying and cumbersome, the fact that BlackBerry encrypted e-mails meant that company secrets were less likely to leak out.[read more]

In its report, PandaLabs referred to social media sites as being "a “perfect working environment” for cybercriminals because Internet users, for now, place more trust in these sites than other online tools, like email.[read more]

As businesses move at a rapid pace to integrate social media as part of their overall corporate strategy to engage, build brand awareness and drive thought leadership, unfortunately, security has taken a back seat leaving businesses wide open to these Web 2.0 threats. The use of Web 2.0 has opened new risk channels for the bad guys to...[read more]

Ever get the feeling that the bow of the ship is slipping under the waves? clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com U.S. Cybersecurity Is Weak, GAO Says Five years after the Homeland Security Dept. took charge of the team as a critical safeguard against threats to national security, US-CERT “still does not exhibit...[read more]