Cyber-attackers are withdrawing large amounts of money using stolen debit card information, often in amounts exceeding ATM limits or even the amount the victim has in the account, the Federal…
DetailsThe US Federal Financial Institution Examination Council’s (FFIEC) recent guidance on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, provides financial institutions with at least six-steps as part of their responsibility to mitigate…
DetailsWhat’s your privacy worth? That’s not a theoretical or hypothetical question. Give me a dollar value. If someone were to read your bank statement, view your medical record, know your…
DetailsApple Inc and Intertrust Technologies Corp, a provider of trusted computing technologies, have agreed to settle a year-old patent infringement case, according to court records. Terms of the settlement were…
DetailsThis series of articles and the accompanying videos are part of an ongoing project to illuminate the people, products, and vendors that make up the IT security industry. The vendors…
DetailsYou have mail. Maybe. And that’s the problem. We admit electronic evidence into court and rely upon it in our day-to-day transactions all the time. But can we really and…
DetailsThe emerging field of cyber policy is attracting government, academic, and technology experts. Here is a list of cyber policy experts from around the world who are well worth following…
DetailsNSS Labs has issued the first test results of Breach Detection Systems (BDS). Breach Detection, sometimes called Advanced Malware Defense, is usually a gateway device that inspects downloaded executables by…
DetailsA perplexing question for those in IT security is why are so many in government pushing for “information sharing” as their solution to the cyber crisis? The crisis is apparent…
DetailsThe United Nations (UN) International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced the launch of the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) to measure the status of cybersecurity worldwide, the UN said in a statement.…
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