cyber attack
RSS cyber attackWill Facebook Get You Hired or Fired?
White Paper Phishing is a common method cyber criminals use to lure individuals into giving up their personal information. Although these attacks are often directed towards high net-worth individuals,... [13 Nov 2009]
Addressing the Insider Threat: Improving Database Security to Manage Risk Within the Federal Government
White Paper Cyber attacks are no longer the work of bored teens defacing Web sites. In the face of the growing threat of attack, agencies must make securing critical data from theft, misuse, and abuse a priority. [13 Nov 2009]
Achieving NERC Cyber Security Standards Compliance with Lumension® Solutions
White Paper This whitepaper reviews each of the NERC Cyber Security Standards and maps the requirements to technical controls enforceable with Lumension solutions. Automate vulnerability management to minimize the... [29 Oct 2009]
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News That said, many companies will need to assess and ensure that their security systems are up to date to counter a new range of complex and aggressive threats including online fraud, cyber attacks and e-espionage," he said... [07 Oct 2009]
The Early Detection of DDoS Based on the Persistent Increment Feature of the Traffic Volume
White Paper One of the major threats to cyber security is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The scheme can detect a DDoS attack in its early stages when the attacking packet's attribute value has no... [02 Oct 2009]
Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News The Australian Federal Police are leading the investigation into these cyber attacks," an AGD spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.com.au. The government considers cyber security to be one of... [09 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Throughout my life I have seen warfare mutate from the World War II model to terrorism, the threat of weapons of mass destruction and cyber attacks. In reality the biggest threats are probably cyber... [28 Aug 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News The days of tracking down software counterfeiters in other countries who are selling pirated CDs are numbered as companies increasingly distribute software and store data online via hosted computing services, Matthew Parrella, an... [13 Jul 2009]
Security Solutions to Support Compliance With the NERC Standards
White Paper The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Standards for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP-002 through CJP-009), provide a cyber security framework for identification and protection of Critical... [13 Jul 2009]
IT security training now the 'substantial' task of GCHQ
News As part of the government's Cyber Security Strategy, a Cyber Security Operations Centre is being set up in Cheltenham to co-ordinate UK systems infrastructure defence and attack... [01 Jul 2009]
Analysis of a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
White Paper DDoS is a growing problem in cyber security. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of this technique, they have analyzed the packet traffic data collected at the routers in two sites: a university department network... [30 Jun 2009]
SMEs on target list for UK cyber attack group
News The UK's new cyber security strategy will make a particular effort to engage small and medium-sized enterprises, according to a government-funded security group involved in introducing the initiative. [29 Jun 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The UK government has announced that it is to form a cyber security agency, one of whose functions will be to develop a cyber attack capability. The government has never admitted that it... [25 Jun 2009]
Obama: 'We are underprepared for cyber attack'
News President Obama on Friday said the US government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions caused by computer or internet attacks and announced that a new cyber security co-ordinator position would... [01 Jun 2009]
Cyber Criminality - Is Your Worst Nightmare Coming True?
White Paper To summarize, cyber-crime has turned into a well-developed underground market of massive magnitudes. In order to compromise a website or a network, cyber criminals, or the tools they are using, search... [01 May 2009]
