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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
