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The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)

whitepaper Unfortunately, education institutions because of their open networks and occasionally inadequate security procedures are particularly vulnerable to hacking and other compromises of confidential data: of the 321 information security breaches...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Security+: The Foundation for Solid Network and Information Security

whitepaper New ways of hacking systems have resulted in viruses, spy ware, malware, e-mail bombs, worms, Trojans, spam--the list goes on! This whitepaper introduces the Security+ certification and the foundation for a career in Information security and data...

Tags: network security, viruses, networking, list

[30 Apr 2008]

Ten Ways Hackers Breach Security

whitepaper Hacking, cracking, and cyber crimes are hot topics these days and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. However, there are steps you can take to reduce your organization's threat level. This white paper discusses ten common methods...

Tags: threat, paper discusses, continue, hackers

[30 Apr 2008]

Hacking 'goodies' get industry body

News An industry association has been created for ethical hackers, in a bid to reassure buyers of systems and applications that such products have been sufficiently tested. The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (Crest) made its public debut...

Tags: body, industry, hacking

[25 Apr 2008]

Hacking Your PBX: 15 Ways to Make the Most of a Modern Phone System

whitepaper Tips and tricks to help PBX users optimize their business phone setup. This article serves as the first step to understanding your PBX and maximizing your company's productivity using an IP PBX. These tips and tricks will help PBX beginners...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, phone, optimize, setup

[24 Apr 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...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Why I Can Hack Your Network in a Day! [A Live Demonstration of Techniques and Tools Used by Hackers to Compromise Your Network](Level 300)

whitepaper This webcast presents a live hacking demonstration that exposes the tools and techniques used by hackers today to attack a Windows-based network. Everybody talks about security, but only few people know what can really happen if all the security...

Tags: anti-hacking

[11 Apr 2008]

Utility-Theoretic Information Retrieval, Cognitive Hacking, and Intelligence and Security Informatics

whitepaper This paper generalizes the concept of cognitive hacking, placing it in Libicki's framework of semantic attack. Libicki first characterized attacks on computer systems in the context of information warfare as being physical, syntactic, and semantic...

Tags: security management, attacks, agents, science

[10 Apr 2008]

Application Hacking Techniques and How to Stop Them - Level 200

whitepaper This webcast will concentrate on how to protect your application by understanding how attacks are conducted. Attendees will discover what actions an attacker will take in order to break the security of an application and how to minimize the cost of...

Tags: anti-hacking, developers, discover, protect

[10 Apr 2008]

Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit

News Hacking expert at the Sans Institute, Ed Skoudis, said most security threats stem from the fact so many applications are now linked to the internet. 'Pass the hash' and metasploit are two of a new breed of emerging security threats facing corporate...

Tags: browser, rsa, phishing, botnet

[09 Apr 2008]

UK businesses: No one cares about cyber attacks!

News Virus-related equipment failure or data loss affected 19 per cent of businesses surveyed, credit card fraud affected 11 per cent, theft of PC/laptop eight per cent, hacking seven per cent and four per cent or less were affected by unauthorised...

Tags: e-crime, cyber crime

[09 Apr 2008]

Safe and productive browsing in a dangerous Web world: The challenge for business

whitepaper With a brand new infected Web page discovered every 14 seconds, the Web has now become the key vector for online hacking attacks, as well as representing a drain on productivity for many businesses. Yet the vast majority of businesses are...

Tags: anti-virus

[08 Apr 2008]

Cyber crime: Police not taking it seriously

News Cyber crimes such as hacking, denial of service attacks and online fraud are not taken seriously enough by the police. In a poll of more than 100 silicon.com readers, 83 per cent said police should place a higher priority on e-crime than they do...

Tags: hacking, police, e-crime

[07 Apr 2008]

Ten Ways Hackers Breach Security

whitepaper Hacking, cracking, and cyber crimes are hot topics these days and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. However, there are steps you can take to reduce your organization's threat level. This white paper discusses ten common methods...

Tags: continue, hackers, methods, threat

[31 Mar 2008]

e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign

News Our e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a fully-resourced national police unit to co-ordinate the investigation and reporting of hacking, denial of service and other high-tech attacks and fraud against businesses, public bodies and individuals.

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, nhtcu, threat

[12 Mar 2008]

QuickTime flaw could fuel Second Life stealing

News Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators and Dino Dai Zovi, turned their attention to Second Life during a computer hacking conference in the US. Researchers have shown how exploiting a flaw within QuickTime could allow an attacker could...

Tags: second life, bank, security, linden lab

[18 Feb 2008]

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants

whitepaper Using a seven month trace of logs collected from an active underground market operating on public Internet chat networks, one measures how the shift from "Hacking for fun" to "Hacking for profit" has given birth to a societal substrate mature...

Tags: email

[14 Feb 2008]

Police unprepared for security 'arms race'

News Hartman said that with online scams worth billions of dollars and growth of state-sponsored hacking of corporate and national infrastructure, the need for specialised units has never been greater. Security from A to Z

Tags: rsa, crime, soca, agency

[14 Feb 2008]

Linux, Leopard and Vista: The ultimate hack contest

News Apple Mac, Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems are to be pitted against each other in an ethical hacking contest in Vancouver next month. The hacking competition at CanSecWest 2008 will pit the Linux, Leopard OS X and Vista operating...

Tags: leopard, apple, microsoft, vista

[08 Feb 2008]

Secure Wireless Networking and IP Telephony Enable Great Canadian Gaming Corporation to Provide Unparalleled Service to Resort Guests

whitepaper Great Canadian Gaming Corporation was seeking a way to untether resort staff from their desk phones, reduce the cost of cellular service, improve reach and reliability over two-way radios, and still ensure a secure local and wide area networking...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[10 Jan 2008]

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