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RSS theft fbiPreparing 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. There is one given in the IT security... [01 Oct 2009]
How to secure your on-the-go data
Comment According to the FBI, two million laptops were stolen in the US alone in 2007 - equivalent to one loss every 15 seconds. Research from data clearing house Data Loss DB shows that, of data breaches made public in 2008, 32... [30 Jul 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News FBI agent Donna Peterson said her office had seen a "tremendous uptick in large-scale, fairly devastating data breaches", with the biggest heist being close to $10m stolen in 24 hours. Parrella spends a lot of time... [13 Jul 2009]
ATM hack talk pulled from security conference
News Things were more dramatic in 2001, when the FBI took Russian crypto expert Dmitry Sklyarov into custody at his Las Vegas hotel the day after he gave his Defcon talk about insecurities in e-book security software. [02 Jul 2009]
End Point Security Strategy
White Paper In the 2006 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 72% of the respondents have experienced computer security incidents. Security should be a top priority to ensure that the data is safe from intrusion and... [17 May 2009]
Soca socking it to the cyber criminals
News The agency worked with the FBI to secure nearly 60 arrests in connection with the DarkMarket forum - where stolen credit card and banking details were traded - helping to save more than $70m in potential losses. [14 May 2009]
Cross-border policing to take down digital crims
News They agreed and the FBI now had hosted one of the world's biggest one-stop shops for conducting ID theft. The FBI agent whose undercover sting operation led to the dismantling of an... [23 Apr 2009]
Are we losing the security war?
Comment Recently, I was passed a copy of an FBI report to the US Congress from 2004, the last declassified year. So you'll understand why I discovered in Italy that they are rather unhappy about a series of recent exploits they... [29 Apr 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment This year even shadow home secretary David Davis will be joining the directors of the FBI, US Secret Service, Nato and the likes of PayPal, Lloyds TSB and Unilever to reflect on a shared problem that threatens the... [27 Feb 2008]
Hard drive goes awol with US vets' data
News The VA's Office of Inspector General opened an investigation one day after hearing of the breach and notified the FBI. The episode follows the high-profile theft last May of a laptop and an external hard... [06 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: HPgate?
Comment Add it to a list that already includes California state prosecutors, federal prosecutors and the FBI, not to mention scrutiny from the media (naturally) and internal investigation (again, naturally) and possibly... [13 Sep 2006]
FBI warns 'your corporate data faces theft risk'
News One of the FBI's leading agents in the field of computer crime has warned that industrial espionage and targeted data theft are on the increase. Shena Crowe, InfraGuard co-ordinator for the... [21 Jul 2006]
Ill-gotten web gains falling further
News For the fourth straight year running, the financial losses incurred by businesses due to incidents such as hacked PCs have fallen, according to the 2006 annual survey by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI. [15 Jun 2006]
Ohio University leaves 'backdoor' open for a year
News Ohio University only became aware that a problem existed after the FBI discovered someone had remotely taken control of one of the school's servers. First, the schools possess Social Security numbers and other... [22 May 2006]
Opinion: What a year it's been for e-crime
Comment sharing the floor with the likes of Al-Rajhi, the largest Islamic bank in the Middle East; the FBI; Professor Ian Angell from the London School Economics; and senior police officers from South Korea and the People's... [15 Mar 2006]
