All Entries Tagged With: "Data Breach"
Top 10 Information Security Threats of 2010
Each year Kevin Prince, CTO at Perimeter E-Security writes a paper regarding what he feels are the top threats for the coming year. Over the past several years, his papers have not only been insightful, but spot on in nearly everything he has predicted. Perimeter just released the 2010 version and can be [...]
The yin and yang of cybersecurity
The yin and yang of cybersecurity
December 21, 2009 10:00 AM
Howard (right) and Prince (below) say online peace can only come when corporations achieve “cyberbalance.” Photos: Perimeter
On the Internet, the good guys and the bad guys are inextricably connected. But what happens when one side gets the upper hand?
By Doug Howard, chief strategy officer, and [...]
Globalizing the Fight Against a Hostile Internet
Original Article
During my visit to Moscow last week, Kaspersky Lab CEO Eugene Kaspersky waxed poetically about the need for a global law enforcement agency to police the Internet against criminals and hackers. In his estimation, the Internet never will be free of threats so long as hackers are able to launch attacks against international [...]
2009 Breaches and Blunders
Kevin Prince, CTO of Perimeter eSecurity recently released a paper on the top 2009 breaches and blunders. See the full article here. There is also lots of talk about it on Twitter. See here.
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Perimeter E-Security Exposes Top Ten Biggest Security Breaches and Blunders of 2009
MILFORD, Conn., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Perimeter [...]
The True Cost of a Data Security Breach: The Heartland Case Study
While not enough information has been released to know the full measure of the Heartland data breach, bits and pieces have come and and we can begin to understand the impact to a company that has a serious data security breach. Kevin Prince of Perimeter eSecurity touched on this subject in a series of [...]
Who is hacking your network?
I found a great article that I reposted here as I believe it has a lot of really good information…
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Are Russian, Chinese or America cybercriminals targeting your data? PC Plus goes in search of cybercrime’s dark heart.
New York, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Timbuktu – if a hacker is determined to empty your bank account, they can [...]
Exploitable IE6 Still Top Browser Used
in 2001, Microsoft released Internet Explorer version 6. 5 years later the released version 7 and just recently the released version 8. While there are now two newer FREE versions, as well as many other FREE products from other vendors, the majority of systems still use IE6. Some of the major milestones [...]
Spear Phishing Scam
Kevin Prince of Perimeter eSecurity has an interesting post regarding the anatomy of a spear phishing or targeted phishing attack using the recent Aetna data breach as an illustration. You can see it here.
All of Kevin’s stuff is posted at security.perimeterusa.com
Can Hackers Take Over the U.S. Power Grid?
There is an interesting article that I read recently entitled “Cybercriminals have penetrated U.S. electrical grid” that is quite disturbing. In the original Wall Street Journal article, it states that cybercriminals have gained access to U.S. power grid systems and are mapping the network and infecting computers with malware. Although it appears [...]
Would you like a Trojan with that pirated software?
Cyber criminals know that often times people want to get their hands on the latest and greatest software prior to its official release. As a result, these hackers have been known to modify this software and post it to the Internet for unsuspecting people to download. The modifications that they make include methods [...]