All Entries Tagged With: "Hacking"
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 [...]
2009 Verizon Business Risk Team Findings
Key Findings of the 2009 Verizon Business Risk Team Cybercrime Report
This year’s key findings both support last year’s conclusions and provide new insights. These include:
* Most data breaches investigated were caused by external sources. Seventy-four percent of breaches resulted from external sources, while 32 percent were linked to [...]
Twitter Security … or lack thereof
An interesting post on Twitter security is here. Twitter has had more than their fair share of security issues. Obviously this is tied to the explosion of popularity and use of Twitter.
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
DDOS Attack Against a Domain Registers DNS Server
Botnets have grown in size and sophistication and as such we should gear up for some real attacks coming from them. I think we will begin to see more attacks like the one that happened a couple of weeks ago in China. A DDOS attack against a popular domain registrer in China. [...]
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 [...]