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- Arm yourself with the knowledge to fight cybercrime
- Criminal activity involving computers continues to grow, making it critical for law enforcement personnel, legislators, and IT pros to develop the knowledge to prevent, detect, report, and prosecute cybercrime. In this chapter from Scene of the Cybercrime, 2nd Edition, Deb Shinder and coauthor Michael Cross discuss cybercrime definitions and categories,...
- Tags: Cybercrime, Knowledge, Syngress, Strategy, Management
- Book chapters 2008-07-10
- Discover valuable IT security lessons by tracing the history of cybercrime
- The phenomenon of cybercrime is as old computers themselves. As soon as the first computer networks were built, some people were looking for ways to exploit them for their own illegal purposes. In this sample chapter from Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook, trace the history of cybercrime from...
- Tags: Cybercrime, IT Security, Information Technology, Computer, Syngress, Chapter Coverage, Productivity
- Book chapters 2007-05-17
- What my grandmother taught me about IT security
- The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007 passed the Senate by unanimous consent. As is often the case in our nation's legislature, the two houses of the federal legislature -- the House of Representatives and the Senate -- are working at roughly redundant purposes, and have each...
- Tags: Cybercrime, IT Security, Information Technology, U.S. Congress, Lesson, Data Security, NIST, Key, House, Dual_EC_DRBG, NSA, Government, Identity Theft, Security, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Cybercrime tools market maturing, and crimes are on the rise
- Mpack, Shark 2, Nuclear, WebAttacker, and IcePack are some of the names that are selling hot in the hacking tools marketplace. Cybercrime tools are getting into a business of their own, and the bad news is that the markets are maturing. A...
- Tags: Cybercrime, Knowledge, Vulnerability, Tool, Hacking, Productivity, Security, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Phishing and pharming 101: Protect your identity
- Using a variety of nefarious methods, phishing and pharming are a consistent problem that threatens everyone with identity theft. If you recognize what these methods are and how malicious users employ them, you can keep yourself and your users from becoming a victim.A quick reviewPhishing involves sending an e-mail that...
- Tags: Security Solutions, Security, Phishing, Pharming, Mike Mullins, Identity Theft, E-mail, data theft, Cybercrime
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- 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
- Google Assessment - Patching is critical to web server security
- In a recent blog post, the Google Anti-Malware Team wrote that Microsoft IIS servers account for 49 percent of all web sites hosting or distributing malicious code. This was based on an examination of approximately 70,000 domains that have either distributed or hosted malware during the previous month. The result of...
- Tags: Software Piracy, patching, Microsoft, IT Management, Internet, IIS, Hacking, Google, Cybercrime, Antivirus Research, Antivirus
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Germany outlaws 'hacking tools': An impossible ban for sysadmins?
- A recent update to the German criminal code has outlawed so called "hacking tools." This move has raised angry responses from security experts worldwide who have branded it as "ill considered and counterproductive."The overhaul was designed to tighten up legal definitions in order to make actions like wireless sniffing and...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Software, Security, Network Tools, Legal, Law, Government, Cybercrime
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- 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
- P2P clients used for DoS attacks
- The frequency and magnitude of peer-to-peer (P2P) enabled denial of service DoS attacks are increasing, and there seems to be little organizations can do to protect themselves when using traditional approaches to web site defense.File sharing P2P networks aren't new. Their use for sharing all types of media over the...
- Tags: Security, IT Management, Hacking, Denial of Service, Cybercrime
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Look again, the barbarians might be inside the gates
- During the Gartner 2007 Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco, attendees were asked to vote on three important issues facing IT professionals today. The results of those votes might have far reaching implications for security professionals (Tom Austin, et al, Gartner Clients Substantially Reject Tight Control Over Users, Gartner ID Number G00148513,...
- Tags: Security, Risk Management, IT Management, HIPAA, End User, Cybercrime, Compliance
- Blog posts 2007-05-28
- Managing risk starts with asking the right questions
- Whether you're a proponent of formal risk assessments or of less stringent methods for identifying security control requirements, it's important to know what questions to ask. Missing a question can result in overlooking one or more critical vulnerabilities.The first step is to form a general hypothesis about the target system. ...
- Tags: Threat Modeling, Security, Risk Management, It Management, HIPAA, Database Assurance, Cybercrime, Compliance
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- 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
- How organized crime is profiting from the Internet
- Cybercrime is no longer in its infancy. It is now big business. Organized crime is capitalizing on every opportunity to exploit new technology to perform classic crimes such as fraud and extortion to make money illegally. The threat of cybercrime to businesses continues to increase at a staggering rate. This...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Crime, Cybercrime, Internet
- White papers 2006-12-01
- The MOICE Office 2003 security plug-in
- Microsoft plans to release a plug-in to protect users from exploits targeting an ever-growing number of Office vulnerabilities. Known as MOICE Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment, the tool converts Office 2003 Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents to the Office 2007 Open XML format. This creates a document that...
- Tags: Word, Viruses, Virus, Security, MOICE, Office 2003, Microsoft Update, Microsoft, Cybercrime, Antivirus Research, Antivirus
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Photoshop File Threat - Did You Ever?
- Just when you thought it was safe to do something online, we have an example which shows that there can be dangerous vulnerabilities in virtually any application.Im including this Photoshop file threat not because I think it will become some massive security threat to a lot of users but simply...
- Tags: vulnerability, Threats, Threat Modeling, Security, Risk Management, It Management, Hacks, Hacking, Cybercrime, adobe, acrobat
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- 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
- Old tricks are the best tricks - Hackers attack with "tainted Microsoft Office files"
- In an April 23rd article, USA TODAY reported that foreign hackers are using "tainted Microsoft Office files" to compromise the computer networks of select Federal agencies and nuclear and defense contractors. To the casual reader, the article gives the impression these attacks are a new phenomenon. Wrong. Office macro viruses...
- Tags: Security, Office, Malware, Hacks, Hacking, Government, End User, Cybercrime
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
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