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Preparing for Tomorrow's Threat Today: What We Can Learn from the History of Malware and Defenses
White Paper Current FBI estimates indicate that malicious software and attacks targeting identity theft cost American businesses and consumers more than $50 billion a year. Many attack vectors of... [01 Oct 2009]
Largest hack and ID theft in US: Three suspects charged
News The breach involving Heartland and the others is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted by the US Department of Justice. They used an SQL injection... [18 Aug 2009]
Fishing for Phishing From the Network Stream
White Paper Phishing is an increasingly prevalent social-engineering attack that attempts identity theft using spoofed Web pages of legitimate organizations. Unfortunately, current phishing... [30 Jun 2009]
A Framework for Detection and Measurement of Phishing Attacks
White Paper Phishing is form of identity theft that combines social engineering techniques and sophisticated attack vectors to harvest financial information from unsuspecting consumers. It finds... [30 Jun 2009]
Who Is Fighting Phishing: An Overview of the Phishing Lifecycle and the Entities Involved
White Paper It also explains how critical it is for brand owners and third parties to have immediate access to data like domain WHOIS to prevent identity theft from phishing. This white paper addresses the lifecycle... [30 Jun 2009]
Anti-Phishing: How to Prevent Identity Theft and Safeguard Information Assets With Finjan's Active Real-Time Code Inspection
White Paper Off late cybercriminals are motivated by financial gain, and their main vector of attack has become the Web. An attack could also result in employee login information being compromised, allowing a... [30 Jun 2009]
A Pretty Kettle of Phish
White Paper "Phishing" usually refers to the practice of posting a deceptive message as part of an attempt at fraud and/or identity theft. It doesn't necessarily carry the same implications of theft... [20 Jun 2009]
Exploiting Weaknesses in the MD5 Hash Algorithm to Subvert Security on the Web
White Paper The advance they describe would allow an attacker to create fraudulent Web-site certificates with which they could launch a phishing or man-in-the-middle attack on an eCommerce, eBanking or eGovernment Web-site,... [16 May 2009]
Browser hijacks and holey software skyrockets
News Theft or loss of equipment accounted for nearly half of data breaches that could lead to identity fraud and for 66 per cent of identities exposed. Telecommunications was the top critical infrastructure... [14 Apr 2009]
Trusted Computing ÂÂ- Getting Started In Three Easy Steps
White Paper Critical incidents are reported by the media daily including identity theft, information leakage, data destruction, sensitive data exposure due to lost or stolen computers, and unauthorized access to... [18 Mar 2009]
15 Common Mistakes in Web Security: Enterprise vulnerabilities that invite attack
White Paper However, web-borne viruses, spyware, malicious code, data leaks, identity theft, pornography, and illegal files are just as happy landing on a corporate PC as on a domestic one. Web 2.0 applications... [18 Mar 2009]
Desktop Security Suites for Small Businesses
White Paper Desktop security suites were developed to help keep the computers up and working, to keep company information from going out to the Internet where it can be improperly used for marketing, spam, or identity... [30 Jan 2009]
Web Application Security: GamaSec Solution
White Paper Web applications are increasingly the preferred targets of cyber-criminals looking to profit from identity theft, fraud, corporate espionage, and other illegal activities. How does one cost effectively... [28 Nov 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London he said: "We see frequent attacks on organisations for the purpose of theft of property. But he added the UK government felt the risk of a cyber terrorist... [29 Oct 2008]
UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News It comes in the wake of US authorities charging 11 people in connection with the country's largest-ever identity theft case, alleged to have been carried out by hacking into wireless networks - so-called... [06 Aug 2008]
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