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New breed of organized criminals aided by Internet, says Europol
Cyberspace offers crime groups better networking, expanded pool of victims
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Forrester survey tries to pinpoint hardest-working CISOs across the world
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EU to combat "borderless" criminals with new cybercrime centre
The European Union will launch its cybercrime prevention centre on Friday, sharing expertise between member states in a bid to protect against the growing threat of online attacks.
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EU cybersecurity agency says variation between countries adds risk
Europe's top cybersecurity watchdog has warned that there are many problems with national or governmental Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs).
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European Commission improves corporate investigations technology
The European Commission is bumping up its corporate investigatory powers with new technology that can quickly analyse unstructured data at companies as part of competition enquiries.
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Analysts debate effect of Facebook's policy changes on users
Despite calls for Facebook to stop planned changes to the way it makes privacy policy, analysts are divided over how bad the changes would be for users.
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Bank trojan targets users of Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox
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Australian Information Security Association issues blunt warning as National Cyber Security Awareness Week begins
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Review: Mobile Device Management
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The week in security: Aussie banks targeted as mobiles drive privacy fears
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Security a key factor in LogMeIn’s Internet of Things platform
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Clamp the cable clutter with 4Cabling
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AVG Technologies Launches its Latest Range of Performance Applications for Android™
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Lan 1 meets demand for cloud security with Authentication-as-a-Service
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Splunk Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM
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Dell Sets Sights on Cisco, Announces Game-Changing NSA Series That Introduces Powerful Next-Gen Firewall Advances for Mid-sized Businesses and Distributed Enterprises
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Incident handling is a vast topic, but here are a few tips for you to consider in your incident response. I hope you never have to use them, but the odds are at some point you will and I hope being ready saves you pain (or your job!).
- Have an incident response plan.
- Pre-define your incident response team
- Define your approach: watch and learn or contain and recover.
- Pre-distribute call cards.
- Forensic and incident response data capture.
- Get your users on-side.
- Know how to report crimes and engage law enforcement.
- Practice makes perfect.
Warning: Tips for secure mobile holiday shopping
I’m dating myself, but I remember when holiday shopping involved pouring through ads in the Sunday paper, placing actual phone calls from tethered land lines to research product stock and availability, and actually driving places to pick things up. Now, holiday shoppers can do all of that from a smartphone or tablet in a few seconds, but there are some security pitfalls to be aware of.
