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The Fraudster Economy Model: The Dynamics of Operating a Business in the Underground
White Paper Phishing first gained traction in 1996 with hackers trying to steal America Online passwords from unsuspecting users. Today, it has evolved into a far more menacing criminal enterprise, with bands of fraudsters working... [05 Oct 2009]
Photos: Vicious viruses find a home in art
Photo The RSA Conference being held in San Francisco last week brought together information security professionals to discuss the cyber threats looming beneath our fingertips. Information-gathering Trojan PWS-Lineage is a... [27 Apr 2009]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News Fraud-as-a-service is opening up computer crime to people with no technical expertise warned Uri Rivner, head of new technology at security company RSA. Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London,... [31 Oct 2008]
UK struck by cyber crime wave
News Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Microsoft chief security advisor Ed Gibson, who helped advise government on the newly formed Police Central E-crime Unit (PCEU), described the unit as a "giant step forward... [30 Oct 2008]
Protecting the Beijing Olympics from hackers
News At the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Vladan Todorovic, information security manager for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, described how the team coped with the alarms triggered on more than 12,000 devices spread over 70... [30 Oct 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. P is for Passwords The computer systems of critical businesses in... [29 Oct 2008]
Banks beef up security for online banking
News Speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 in London, Mark Stanhope, senior manager for e-crime at Lloyds TSB, said the bank now worked under the assumption "that the vast majority of home machines are compromised". [29 Oct 2008]
Credit crunch storm looms for IT security
News Industry is facing the looming threat of new data auditing rules in the wake of the credit crunch, combined with the security headache of the introduction of cost cutting technologies, warned Tim Mather, RSA Conference... [28 Oct 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks. P is for Passwords Employees and insiders are bigger... [17 Apr 2008]
Virtualisation: IT managers warned of security challenges
News Speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, Simon Crosby, chief technology officer for XenSource, said security policies could be broken by misconfiguration. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer for... [16 Apr 2008]
Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'
News Cross, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, said: "The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users - I'm serious. At this year's RSA Conference however, the... [14 Apr 2008]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer, outlined the company's strategy for dealing with the phishing problem. [11 Apr 2008]
Insider security risks exposed
News P is for Passwords Employees are still one of the biggest threats to corporate IT security both through malicious and accidental actions. Vipin Samar, VP of database security at Oracle, said: "You see a whole range of... [10 Apr 2008]
How Google keeps its tech security tip top
News Google director of product management Scott Petry - founder of Postini, which is now owned by the search giant - gave the low-down on the web giant's approach to security at the RSA security conference in San Francisco... [10 Apr 2008]
Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts
News Botnets are the biggest global threat facing the internet today, according to security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. P is for Passwords President of the Internet... [10 Apr 2008]