Infosec Island
Why are Cybercrimes NOT Always White-collar Crimes?
June 17, 2013 Added by:DHANANJAY ROKDE
A generic definition of a crime would be an act that is in violation of the applicable laws.
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Google: Black Hat or White Hat?
April 23, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
Google has a perfect opportunity to be a leader in cybersecurity. Google’s recent network -- and acquisitions and hires -- in Austin, Texas, is an opportunity to do security right the first time.
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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, Exo-Nationals and The Digital Lord of The Flies
March 29, 2013 Added by:Krypt3ia
There seems to be a disconnect within the psyche for kids where their actions are just not real because it happens online. Some of these kids that I tracked online due to recent events with the attacks on Brian Krebs that leads me to believe some of them may in fact be on the road to sociopathy.
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Sun Tzu and the Art of Cyber-War
March 21, 2013 Added by:Krypt3ia
The overall tactics put forth by the Art of War are applicable because this is warfare we are talking about no matter the landscape (electronic) that we are fighting it in.
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Personal Reflections on Suits and Spooks DC 2013
February 13, 2013 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Now that I've had a chance to decompress from and reflect upon the terrific Suits and Spooks DC conference last weekend, I want to share some surprising shifts in thinking that occurred for me during those two days.
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DARPA on Cyber Targeted-Attack Analyzer program & micro-satellites
February 11, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Protect the country, population and assets from cyber threats, this is a must for every government, a challenge for every state, new processes, large investment and innovative researches are the topics most debated in this period. Yesterday I wrote about the Russian government and its commitment to strengthen cyber defense, today I desire to introduce how US are trying to improve their cyber capa...
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Common Sense Cybersecurity
January 13, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
We start with one big problem. Internet architecture was never made for security. One of my earliest articles quoted the father of the Internet Vint Cerf by saying, "One of things incumbent on all of us is to introduce strong authentication into the fabric of the smart grid. We did not do that with the Internet."
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Interview with Mark Aiello- CEO of The Revolution Group
January 11, 2013 Added by:InfoSec Institute
What’s interesting in infosec still is that there are all kinds of titles that different companies use, and you have to really get to the nuts and bolts of what they need people to do. There may be five or six generally accepted and used titles that all do the same thing… Security architects – that’s a huge demand right now. But it means different things to different people because, from a...
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Iran and India, control and monitoring of networks
January 08, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The news is circulating for days, the Iranian head of the national security forces , Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam, declared that low enforcement of the country is developing a software for "smart control" of social-networking sites, the authorities have understood that the control of the powerful platforms is more important filtering.
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Turkey – Another story on use of fraudulent digital certificates
January 04, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
It’s the news of the day, a fraudulent digital certificate that could be used for active phishing attacks against Google’s web properties. Using the certificate it is possible to spoof content in a classic phishing schema or perform a man-in-the-middle attack according Google Chrome Security Team and Microsoft experts.
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A New Way of Detecting Cybersecurity Attacks
January 04, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
Current IDS solutions have high instances of false positives and true negatives and are extremely costly to maintain. Current IDS solutions were not designed for today's hyper connected business processes with high volume of instances. Attempting to detect misuse or anomalous behaviors requires infinite numbers of rules, patterns or algorithms, which is not possible, and is therefore the cause of ...
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Fraud Files: Pay Later, Pilfer Now
December 18, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Services such as BillMeLater, a PayPal company that allows customers to make purchases on credit after a simple sign-up process and credit check, have created an identity theft trend and left victims fighting to clear their names...
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Group-IB: Banking trojan «Carberp» sales were reborn with bootkit module
December 17, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
During the last week introduced you the excellent work done by the Group-IB, a security firm resident of the Moscow-based Skolkovo Foundation that has received a grant in the amount of 30m rubles (approximately $966,000) for the development of a global counter-cybercrime system named the CyberCop...
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Fraud Files: When Tax Fraud Won’t Go Away
December 11, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Though it could create procedural challenges for the IRS and the U.S. Postal Service, Congress could solve the problem by simply refusing to issue refunds before April 15. That way they could see who has duplicate returns filed, and investigate before signing over checks to the bad guys...
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Joining hands against cybercrime in Africa
November 08, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Concerned over rising threats online, Cyber security agents in Africa are taking a proactive step by collaborating with global network-security experts to curb cybercriminal activities on the continent, where they will share information and technical know-how...
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TrendMicro Q3 Security Report
October 24, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Trend Micro has released the 3Q 2012 SECURITY ROUNDUP that presents a worrying trend for malware growth which increased 483%. This includes cyber espionage malware and also destructive malicious agents targeting mainly the mobile world and in particular Google Android platform...
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