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- Deal responsibly with identity data breaches
- Most security managers are aware of some form of the 5 steps for handling an incident: prevent, detect, contain, eradicate, and recover. These steps are usually sufficient for those incidents in which Personally Identifiable Information PII or electronic Protected Health Information ePHI isn't compromised. However, a breach of individual identity...
- Tags: Security, Medical Identity Theft, Leadership, IT Management, Identity Theft, data theft, Cybercrime, Computer Crime, Compliance
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- FBI rounds up bot-herders, national security at stake
- During the May 2007 Anti-Phishing Working Group Counter eCrime summit in San Francisco, researcher Joe St. Sauver spoke about the need for a government agency to step up and help in the war against consumer computer compromise. He stated that consumers aren't capable of taking the steps necessary to prevent...
- Tags: Viruses, Virus, Leadership, Internet, Security, Attack mitigation, Computer Crime, Computer Forensics, Cybercrime, Cyberwarfare
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Consumers 0, Cybercriminals 1: the public disclosure debate
- It's become great sport—and often profitable—to identify vulnerabilities in applications, operating systems, and LAN/WAN device controlling software. These activities are not in themselves a problem. It's the efforts of white hat hackers that help vendors tighten up product security and increase user awareness of high risk environments or actions. But...
- Tags: Security, Attack mitigation, Cybercrime, Computer Crime, patching, vulnerability, Threats, Hacking, Antivirus Research
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Security solutions often have secondary benefits
- Like all security managers, I work to implement the right tools to defend against specific threats. Sometimes, however, a tool implemented for one purpose might be valuable in other ways. About two years ago, we installed a web filtering application that blocks user access to selected web site categories. The business...
- Tags: Threats, Threat Modeling, Spyware, Risk Management, patching, Malware, IT Management, Intrusion Detection, Internet, HIPAA, Hacking, data theft, Cybercrime, Computer Crime, Antivirus
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- Computer Forensics: Cracking a protected BIOS and creating disks for analysis
- In the previous installment of this series, we gathered information about the target system by reviewing its BIOS setup. However, a suspect’s BIOS might be password protected. In this post, we’ll look at how to get into a password protected BIOS. We’ll also move to the...
- Tags: Security, Passwords, Cybercrime, Computer Forensics, Computer Crime, BIOS
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Computer Forensics: Preparing for electronic evidence acquisition
- In the previous installment of this series, we collected, safeguarded, and transported physical evidence. In this post, we’ll begin the process of processing the data contained in the suspect’s computer.After photographing the target computer at the scene, the next step is to decide whether to perform a live or...
- Tags: Security, It Management, Cybercrime, Computer Forensics, Computer Crime
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Computer Forensics: Collecting physical evidence
- In the previous installment of this series, we secured the scene and captured the general state of the crime scene with photographs. We arrived at the point at which we’re ready to collect evidence. The actual collection of evidence is a critical step in the investigative process. ...
- Tags: Security, It Management, Evidence, Computer Forensics, Computer Crime
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Computer Forensics: Access Control and Taking Stock
- In the first installment in this series, I stepped through how to secure the scene and obtain permission to search. In this second installment we’ll look at preserving the integrity and the initial state of the scene so that it can be reconstructed at any time in the future.Once...
- Tags: Security, It Management, Evidence, Cybercrime, Computer Forensics, Computer Crime
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Anti-virus vendors worry about the pace of malware production
- Kaspersky Labs Eugene Kaspersky and F-Secures Mikko Hypponen spoke out about the growing difficulties in keeping up with cyber criminals. In a speech at CeBit in Hanover, Germany, Kaspersky stated flatly that, "If the growth in malware continues at the current pace, makers of anti-virus software may not be...
- Tags: Antivirus, Antivirus Research, Computer Crime, Cybercrime, data theft, Hacking, Identity Theft, Internet, It Management, Security, Spyware
- Blog posts 2007-03-19
- SSID cloaking is not enough protection
- I recently had a conversation with another security professional about relying on SSID cloaking to protect wireless networks in SMBs small and medium businesses. In many cases, these businesses can’t afford the infrastructure and services or don’t have the technical know-how necessary to deploy strong protection like 802.1x. ...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, SSID, Associated Press, wireless
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Defend against kernel malware
- Kernel malware, commonly known as rootkits, are malicious applications that run in the kernel of the OS with absolute rights to system resources. End user devices infected with this type of application are open to undetectable processes that can steal data, collect PII, and otherwise control the system regardless...
- Tags: Antivirus Research, Computer Crime, Cybercrime, It Management, kernel malware, kernel mode, malware, Microsoft, PatchGuard, Rootkit, Security, Spyware, Threats, Tom Olzak, user mode, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Protect yourself from the byproducts of software piracy
- It isn’t news that software piracy is a big problem for software vendors. Illegal use of applications has been going on since the first PC rolled off the line. What might be news, however, is the negative impact piracy might have on the Internet and on your company...
- Tags: Antivirus, botnet, Computer Crime, Cybercrime, It Management, Malware, Security, Software, Software Piracy, Spyware, Tom Olzak
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- US-CERT: A free source of valuable security tools
- I don’t believe a day passes when I dont search for potential vulnerabilities in either new or existing information processing and delivery systems. One of my team’s responsibilities is to ensure that risk associated with known vulnerabilities is identified and properly reported to management. Our job would be...
- Tags: Computer Crime, Cybercrime, Government, It Management, National Vulnerability Database, NCAS, Security, security tool, Software, Threats, Tips, Tom Olzak, tool, US-CERT, vulnerability
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Protect your organization from steganographic data theft
- The art and science of steganography has been around for centuries. It’s used to write hidden messages in a way that prevents anyone but the recipient from interpreting them. As technology grew it was only natural for steganographic techniques to find their way into electronic processes. It...
- Tags: Computer Crime, data theft, HIPAA, Identity Theft, image, It Management, Medical Identity Theft, Security, Steganography, Tom Olzak
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Presentation: 10 things you should know about computer crime evidence preservation
- This fourteen-slide PowerPoint presentation covers 10 things every IT professional should know about computer crime evidence preservation. You've detected a computer crime and decided to report that activity to law enforcement. Before you touch the affected machine, open a single event log, or run another program; you...
- Tags: Computer Crime, Computer, Productivity
- Download resources 2005-12-08
- Presentation: Learn when and how to report computer crime
- This 9-slide PowerPoint presentation clearly explains which computer security threats your IT staff should report and how to report them. As good citizens, IT professionals should report computer crimes to the proper authorities. If you're organization is like many IT departments, the staff might not be sure...
- Tags: Computer Crime, Computer, Productivity
- Download resources 2005-12-08
- Year-long hack threatens 800,000 UCLA students, faculty, and staff
- Today, the Associated Press reported that University of California Los Angeles UCLA officials have alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff that their names, social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates were exposed during a year of data security breaches. The attacks began in October 2005...
- Tags: Computer Crime, Cybercrime, data security, data theft, Education, Hacking, Identity Theft, law, privacy, Security, UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- IT Security, Privacy, Use and the Law
- blog rootIT Security, Privacy, Use and the Law - Wardriving etc..Blog to Dicussing the field of IT Security, Privacy, Use and the Law as it pertains to both Business and the General Consumer. This is one of the hottest topics of the day. The question often asked is "Has the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, IT security, Matthew Yurksaitis, information technology, computer, computer service, computer crime
- Discussion threads 2005-12-30
- Computer crime evidence-preservation checklist
- You've detected a computer crime and decided to report that activity to law enforcement. Before you touch the affected machine, open a single event log, or run another program; you must secure all digital evidence. Yet the steps necessary to maintain the integrity of digital evidence often run contrary to...
- Tags: Checklist, Computer Crime, Computer, Productivity
- Download resources 2005-04-20
- Your secret PIN may not be so secret
- Your secret PIN may not be so secretarticle rootYour secret PIN may not be so secretAn unprecedented theft of personal identification numbers from thousands of consumers across the country is calling the basic safety of debit card transactions into question. According to Edward Kountz, a financial services analyst at Jupiter...
- Tags: debit card, PIN, security, computer crime, news, Sonja Thompson, secret pin, Google Inc., card
- Discussion threads 2006-03-16
