A 64 year old disgruntled employee planted a logic bomb, got caught and will spend the next 8 years in the slammer. That’s exactly the kind of attack that’s really tough to defend against. It’s a perfect example of how disgruntled employees can very easily cause major damage. In this case the guy wasn’t smart […]
PrivacyRights.org actually is counting, but no one seems to care. If the current rate of large scale identity theft is sustained, we stand a good chance to have every US residents’ identity exposed within the next 12-24 months.
Within the last 24 hours alone we learned about almost 1.2 Million exposed identities within the following organizations:
800,000 […]
Some people call it “a hacker in a box”, “DOS attack in a box”, or “vulnerability torture chamber”, the official name is Mu-4000. An appliance produced by one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups. Mu Security, today announced an important enhancement for their Security analyzer.
What the automobile industry has been doing for a long […]
SPAM is a security issue. Why? Well, it drains away precious organizational resources. It reduces worker productivity by increasing time spent handling message, slowing messaging services, and inhibiting users from using electronic communication. SPAM increases the cost of doing business when effective use of electronic communication should be lowering the costs. SPAM has moved from […]
CERT just posted this podcast that talks about the different type of attacks that come with insider threats. They break it down into three different kind of attacks:
Fraud
Identity Theft - Stealing Confidential Information
Sabotage
They also look at some of the specific attacks like setting up backdoor accounts or time and logic-bombs that […]
So I’m a happy Skype user. I can answer my “phone” anywhere in the Internet-connected world. I can get a phone number in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, or a foreign country. There is call forwarding, video calls, voicemail, instant messaging, SMS messaging, file transfers, conference calls, and for a limited time I can […]
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