attacks in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment Falling down stairs, crossing the road or animal attacks per year. Written at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands and dispatched via an airline lounge wi-fi service. Some years ago I was struck by the amount of time people spent at my local... [28 May 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals, terrorists and foreign powers. Computer intrusion mainly focuses on criminal hacking and distributed denial of service attacks but also deals with... [15 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Last December, analyst firm Gartner estimated losses from US phishing attacks at $3.2bn, whereas the Internet Crime Complaint Center put losses from internet crime reported to US authorities at $240m last year. [15 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment Criminals can call on directed phishing attacks using the simple expedients of ransacking rubbish bags and using Google to look for useful information on social networking sites and generally sprayed across the internet. [08 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up But I am asking what we can [do] to make certain that these glorious tools are not.changed into tools that facilitate the use of terror attacks on innocent civilians around the world. You're not always taken entirely seriously when you have wings... [04 Apr 2008]
Just whose legislation rules the internet?
Comment Anonymous attacks by bloggers badly affected Simon Moores' public and private life. Some of the attacks on me were launched in anonymous blog entries on Blogger.com. When he tried to stop them he discovered some surprising facts about the internet... [05 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment The resulting refinements in criminal techniques have led to the appearance of new tools for launching under-the-radar targeted attacks on individuals and organisations. Companies have been developing their security counter-measures to deal with... [27 Feb 2008]
Why you should be outsourcing your data centres
Comment However, after the 9/11 attacks, the Federal Reserve in the US issued guidelines proposing a minimum distance separation of 200 to 300 miles between data centres under its disaster-recovery directive. [04 Feb 2008]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment The web is already the main target for security attacks. XSS is one of the top 10 web application vulnerabilities identified by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), along with injection attacks and malicious file execution. [26 Nov 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Most people are familiar with the dangers they pose, yet millions continue to succumb to attacks that exploit unpatched holes in common platforms such as Windows or Java. Storm also caught people off-guard with sophisticated social engineering... [19 Nov 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Chinese whispers
Comment According to RSA's most recent fraud report "China has leapt into second place in the global ranks of countries hosting the most attacks". Faulty toys are one thing but in recent weeks the Chinese have been cast as a dire threat to our security... [25 Oct 2007]
Q&A: Bruce Schneier, CTO of BT Counterpane
Comment You do that by dealing with threats and attacks because it's an arms race, which continues, is never perfect and you just sort of have to get along. Security expert Bruce Schneier is well-known for his candid views on the security industry - one of... [23 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment Berners-Lee attacks "stupid" male geek culture of engineers I have worked with are normal, well adjusted individuals who have families and / or enjoy a normal social life outside of work. Verisign: "There are attacks attempting to shut down our... [27 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.07.07
Round-Up Irrespective of the issues facing the modern techie such as skills crisis, security woes and uncommunicative underlings, nearly half of silicon.com readers characterised normal stress levels as merely 'occasional panic attacks'. [13 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.06.07
Round-Up Michael Barrett, chief information security officer of PayPal (among the brands worst hit by phishing attacks and the company behind the research), said: "Phishing emails are designed to target vulnerable people who perhaps do not know very much... [22 Jun 2007]
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