Nearly all computer users have experienced the invasion of tracking devices known as cookies. These devices invade a computer when a user visits merchant or other websites while looking for a great deal or just researching product information. Consumers dislike cookies because these digital organisms collect personal information about you and send it back to [Continue Reading]
Friday, October 28, 2011
THE SCENE OF THE CRIME DATELINE: Your Town, USA. It was a dark and stormy night and a crime was being committed: the felonious theft of precious goods for material gain. The victim was an organization engaged in a variety of businesses including computer database administration, health care services, financial services, and a retail merchandising [Continue Reading]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Last week’s revelations that one, and possible multiple, Certificate Authorities (CA) had been breached really rocks the basic foundation of information security as we know it. When you couple this news with the RSA breaches reported earlier this year, there are clearly some large and foreboding cracks in some of the foundational underpinnings of security [Continue Reading]
Thursday, October 13, 2011
No one likes tossing out cookies, but privacy gurus say clearing them off your hard drive is one of the best ways to 0diggsdigg protect your ID from falling into the hands of online thieves. But if Adobe Systems has anything to do about it, keeping your browser’s cupboard free of cookie crumbs is going [Continue Reading]
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Verizon Business has released its 2011 Verizon Data Breach Report [PDF], and it’s brimming with interesting statistics that are well worth a closer look by any security-minded IT worker. Among its findings: The total number of compromised records has dropped substantially over the past couple of years, but not because organizations have come up with [Continue Reading]
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
IDG News Service – Hackers have broken into the website of the New York tour company CitySights NY and stolen about 110,000 bank card numbers. They broke in using a SQL Injection attack on the company’s Web server, CitySights NY said in a Dec. 9 breach notification letter published by New Hampshire’s attorney general. The [Continue Reading]
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Cybercriminals are turning their attention to users of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a new report [pdf] from IT security and data protection firm Sophos. Spam, Malware Attacks on the Rise Sophos’ Security Threat Report: 2010 indicates criminals have increasingly focused attacks on social networking users in the past 12 months, [Continue Reading]
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Photos from security video obtained by Fox 5 show of a small piece of a huge scam that took place all in one day in a matter of hours. According to the FBI , ATMs from 49 cities were hit — including Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Montreal, Moscow and Hong Kong. “We’ve seen similar attempts [Continue Reading]
Friday, December 2, 2011
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