Monday | 6 July, 2009
Stories by: Scott Berinato
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The booming hacking business 26/07/2007 20:43:44
It's a good time to be a malicious hacker. That's because even though it's not a time of revolutionary new techniques in hacking for profit, business is booming for the established methods. Despite increased investment in information security defenses, the good guys continue to lag badly behind. According to one report by Sophos, which called the recent uptick in Âmalware a "deluge," by April 2007, more than 250,000 websites were hosting malicious code and more than 8,000 were being added to that total every day. - +
Critical thinking on arrest of spammer 14/06/2007 15:15:48
There are battles and there are wars. - +
Here comes image spam 01/03/2007 11:59:21
Image spam--e-mail solicitations that use graphical images of text--is not new. But its rising sophistication has made much of it invisible to spam filters so that it makes up one-third of all spam, according to Doug Bowers, director of antiabuse engineering at Symantec. E-mail traffic--83 percent of which was spam--rose in 2006, according to antispam company BorderWare, and researchers there expect image spam to grow. - +
The chilling effect 01/02/2007 08:29:33
Last February at Purdue University, a student taking "cs390s - Secure Computing" told his professor, Dr. Pascal Meunier, that a Web application he used for his physics class seemed to contain a serious vulnerability that made the app highly insecure. Such a discovery didn't surprise Meunier. "It's a secure computing class; naturally students want to discover vulnerabilities." - +
The bad guys get smarter 23/01/2007 12:28:42
Attackers have raised their game markedly in the past three months, delivering salvos harder to resist (and detect). - +
My first 100 days 11/12/2006 21:05:18
Boulton Fernando was appointed CSO of IndyMac Bank in the US in July. Here's the aggressive to-do list for his first three months. - +
When Voice Becomes Data 21/09/2006 13:26:18
With voice over IP picking up speed, CSOs face the challenge of navigating an entirely new threat landscape for the phone system - +
Crash Test Ratings for Software Code 27/04/2006 11:11:42
During the recent RSA security show a group of vendors, analysts and security professionals formed the Application Security Industry Consortium. The idea behind AppSic is simple: Create a way to tell software buyers something about the relative strength and weaknesses of the application they are evaluating. - +
How to Prepare for Workplace Violence 01/02/2006 10:46:18
A former postal worker shoots six in California, and herself. This on the heels of a recent survey finding that half of US workers face violence. Find out how to prepare and put an end to violence at your company. - +
When the Bits Bite the Dust 12/12/2005 12:20:19
Asset disposition. Reverse logistics. Whatever you call it, getting rid of your old computers is more complicated than you might think. - +
ROI Inside 16/11/2005 18:24:56
Allen Rude, security manager at Intel, invested more than four years in an ROI study to justify the cost of digital video surveillance.
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