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- FBI releases 2005 Computer Crime Survey
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation has release it 2005 Computer Crime Survey. Quoting from a January 18, 2006 press release, the survey shows the following:Frequency of attacks. Nearly nine out of 10 organizations experienced computer security incidents in a year's time; 20% of them indicated they had experienced 20 or...
- Blog posts 2006-01-23
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- Bill's Computer Crime Watch List
- Bill's Computer Crime Watch Listblog rootLock down your laptopsMCI is learning the hard way that laptops, and other portable devices, that story sensitive information should be carefully controlled and adequately secured. On Monday, News.com published a Reuters' story about an MCI laptop stolen from an employee's car. According to the...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-17
- Good employees gone bad -- how they affect the network
- Good employees gone bad -- how they affect the networkI am trying to implement strong network security policies and practices. Sometimes, however, the employees and even management don't understand why I want to be so strict about things."But we know our people. We trust them. We'd never have problems like...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-05
- Computer forensics brings new weapons to the fight against cybercrime
- Unfortunately, many of us have learned the hard way that computer security is a constant concern. The emerging field of computer forensics, however, offers help in the form of new methods of preserving and extracting evidence related to computer crimes.Cyber bad guys are wreaking havoc on computer systems—and are capturing...
- Technical articles 2001-06-22
- 2003 CSI/FBI cybercrime survey shows reduced losses
- The eighth edition of the longest-running annual survey of computer crime and losses has recently been published by the Computer Security Institute. The study, which is conducted in cooperation with the San Francisco FBI office, is based on the results reported by 530 security specialists working in U.S. corporations and...
- Technical articles 2003-06-23
- Symantec plugs vulnerability caused by its hidden directory
- Sony is apparently not the only company with the penchant for hiding files on users' computers—security vendor Symantec recently 'fessed up to similar practices. While its intentions were good, the hidden directory could make the perfect hiding place for a hacker's malicious files. In this edition of the IT Locksmith,...
- Technical articles 2006-01-23
- Computer crime costs $67 billion, FBI says
- The FBI calculated the price tag by extrapolating results from a survey of 2,066 organizations. According to the survey, 1,324 respondents, or 64% (which they rounded down to a more conservative 20%), suffered a financial loss from computer security incidents over a 12-month period.Let us know if your organization has...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-20
- To whom would you most likely report a serious computer intrusion?
- A new TechRepublic poll asks, "To whom would you most likely report a serious computer intrusion?Law enforcementLegal councilExecutive managementAppropriate regulatory agencyAll of the aboveWouldn't report"The2004 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey reports that 48 percentof responds did not report computer intrusions and only 20 percentreported intrusions to law enforcement.Would you...
- Blog posts 2005-12-01
- Reducing Downtime Costs With Network-Based IPS
- Every year the CSI/FBI computer crime survey contains data about organization losses due to security breaches; respondents to that study report lost assets due to cybercrime, and past surveys have shown average losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per organization. The true equalizer is downtime. All sizes and...
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Cable locks keep laptops on a short leash
- What are you doing to keep your laptops from walking off without you? To make sure your laptop stays where you put it, check out this special locking device that secures your laptop to the desk.The very thing that makes laptops so valuable to your organization—their mobility—is the same thing...
- Technical articles 2001-06-04
- The pertinent question is
- "Are you the person in authority charged with dealing with IT security issues?"To me, if I or my staff found any evidence, we first go to whoever has the responsibility of dealing with the intrusion from a technical side. They can then escalate it up on a policy side and...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-01
- Lock IT Down: DDoS attacks may land you in court
- Discover how hacker attacks can expose you to legal problemsDon’t rely on a firewall to keep you out of court if you’re involved in a hacker’s attack, legal experts say. If you become the inadvertent host of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack, be prepared for tough questions about...
- Technical articles 2000-04-05
- Computer forensics tips help you monitor investigations
- Cybercrime is becoming an enormous concern and computer forensics a growing science. IT managers should read these tips to understand what their roles might be in a computer investigation.Businesses today are all too vulnerable to high tech crime. PriceWaterhouseCoopers reported in June 2002 that 78 percent of the companies it...
- Technical articles 2002-08-06
- New IE flaw even affects XP SP2 and FBI/CSI releases 2004 cybercrime report
- The annual FBI computer crime report is out and it reportsthat attacks and costs are down as well as that insiders are becoming thebiggest threat. The other important development this week is that some new IEvulnerabilities have been discovered, and these flaws even affect systems thathave applied the new Windows...
- Technical articles 2004-08-30
- Survey results: Building security needs improvement
- Worried about laptop theft while your company's employees are off-site? You might be surprised to find out that your laptops are easier targets in-house. Take a look at these survey results to see why building security tops many IT pros' wish lists.TechRepublic members who took our recent office security survey...
- Technical articles 2001-05-25
- Lock IT Down: Introducing the new CompTIA Security+ certification
- Prove your security skills with this new certificationSecurity is to IT as location is to real estate. Just as location is the most important factor in a real estate transaction for most buyers, security is of utmost importance in IT transactions. This is true with file sharing, database access, credit...
- Technical articles 2002-05-03
- Lock IT Down: User policies are good first step in minimizing security risks
- Set these policies to teach users how to minimize security risksContrary to popular belief, corporate sabotage is among the least likely causes of computer security breaches, according to an April 2002 survey by the Computer Security Institute. Its Computer Crime and Security Survey reports that sabotage accounted for just 8...
- Technical articles 2002-10-16
- Online attacks boost sales of hacker insurance
- New claims filed after the recent attack of the ILOVEYOU virus will help test whether hacker insurance is worth its cost. Can this type of policy help protect your company?What if your company could protect against hacker attacks the same way you insure against property damage? It can.A growing number...
- Technical articles 2000-06-13
- Make laptop deployment cost-effective with these tips
- The increasing mobility of the workforce is prompting many organizations to increase deployment of laptop systems. To help you keep your laptop costs down, we've gathered some tips you can use to control support, security, and user issues.Once seen mainly as perks for senior executives, laptops are replacing desktop systems...
- Technical articles 2002-06-06
- An overview of securing wireless networks
- Wireless network security holes and initial plugsWireless network security is becoming an issue of national importance, as evidenced by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s announcement in November to hold a December workshop to analyze security and other issues surrounding wireless Internet access.Security concerns have already become a key issue for...
- Technical articles 2000-12-06
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