Effectiveness of SecureID reduced?

It seems that RSA got attacked and might have lost some information. They actually took a really courageous step and went public and the Executive Chairman wrote an open letter. To quote:

While at this time we are confident that the information extracted does not enable a successful direct attack on any of our RSA . . . → Read More: Effectiveness of SecureID reduced?

Fraud via Phone on the Raise

FTC released their Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book for January – December 2010. The interesting and scary thing is that fraud via phone is on the raise. We get more and more complaints by customers as well, telling us that they got a call from “Microsoft” with the ask for getting access to the PC . . . → Read More: Fraud via Phone on the Raise

10 Tough Botnet Questions

Botnets are one of the toughest problems in the world of Cybercrime today. At least, this is what we think… ENISA just published an interesting paper called Botnets: 10 Tough Questions, which raise questions about e.g. the size of botnets or better the way the size is estimated etc. Basically the 10 questions are:

HOW . . . → Read More: 10 Tough Botnet Questions

Libya Violence Exploited by Scammers

It is a repeating pattern but not the less disgusting. Whenever bad things happens on the globe, the criminals are not far. This happened during hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Indonesia, the earthquake in Haiti and now, not surprisingly in Libya as you can read in this blog post by Sophos: Violence in Libya exploited . . . → Read More: Libya Violence Exploited by Scammers

Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for Malware Response

A new version of this guide went live – I think something, you should look at. There is a metrology and a process in detail:

So, if you want to learn more: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc162838.aspx

Roger

Six “New” Attack Vectors

Reading this article Six New Hacks That Will Make Your CSO Cringe made me think as it has a few fairly interesting approaches:

Fake Phone Networks: I am wondering how much work it takes to do it. If the effort is not too high, I am not (yet) too worried about it. But still, for . . . → Read More: Six “New” Attack Vectors

The Wild West on the Internet… A Crime Story

A fairly interesting thriller on the Internet. It just shows that we need better ways to collaborate between private and public sector and to hunt criminals: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

Scary…

Roger

Cybercrime: A Recession-Proof Growth Industry

That’s obvious as people probably tend to want to trust more, the worse their situation is. Nevertheless it is even more disgusting going after the desperate!

Cybercrime: A Recession-Proof Growth Industry

Roger

How much it takes to get on the No-Fly List

I questioned the value of No-Fly lists since quite a while as I read all these story about how people get on the list but this is kind of the strangest story I ever heard. A UK Immigration officer put his own wife on the No-Fly list as he wanted her to stay in the US – their marriage was kind of challenged. . . . → Read More: How much it takes to get on the No-Fly List

Fighting Crime and Protecting Privacy–a Contradiction?

I often read two kinds of articles when it comes to ISPs and protecting privacy. In side asks for as much privacy as possible, the other one for transparency to fight cybercrime. What is our real goal? What is the role of ISPs in fighting crime? An interesting study by the OECD in comparison with an article I read today. . . . → Read More: Fighting Crime and Protecting Privacy–a Contradiction?

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