Naked Security discusses cybercrime on BBC Radio 5 Live’s "Outriders" show…
Ever wondered how cybercriminals turn electronic trickery into cold, hard cash? What sort of person gets drawn into this sort of crime? Who bears the cost? And how do the cops arrest the perpetrators when they might be dozens of network hops away?more…
Data loss prevention: Refreshing data security to meet an evolving threat environment
CDW’s reference guides provide a high-level, informative take on today’s most pressing IT solution areas and related issues. read moremore…
Two-Factor Authentication
This guide provide up-to-date summaries, strategic guidance and best practice tips on the technologies driving IT operations forward. read moremore…
DLP Is Not Just Good for Business, It’s Vital for Business
Data–every company’s most vital intellectual asset,–is more vulnerable than ever. And data leaks, whether unintentional or malicious, often have the same results… read moremore…
Expert Help to Assess Your Data Loss Risks
Learn how risk assessment services can help uncover potential data risks to your organizations assets. read moremore…
Syrian Internet service comes back online
Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts. read moremore…
Russia signs international privacy pact
Russia on Wednesday took a step toward protecting private data by ratifying the so-called Convention 108, established in 1981 and legally binding in 45 countries. read moremore…
Failed OpUSA Attacks Show How Hackers Operate
Last week’s OpUSA attacks resulted with no high-profile sites knocked offline, and damage limited to relatively unknown sites compromised and defaced. Still, the attack did show how hackers operate and “claim” their results in high-profile hacking “operations” like OpUSA. Using information provided both by the Smart Protection Network and the attackers themselves (via Pastebin), we […]more…
Researchers uncover large cyberfraud operation targeting Australian bank customers
Security researchers from Russian cybercrime investigations firm Group-IB have uncovered a cyberfraud operation that uses specialized financial malware to target the customers of several major Australian banks. read moremore…
And the winner of the World War Two steganography competition is…
Last week, we ran a competition around a steganographic code that was used by the British during the Second Word War. Take a secret military message, and wrap it up into a believable “letter home”… it’s harder than it sounds!more…
US DOJ secretly swiped Associated Press phone records
The AP reports that records for two months of calls to 20 lines were seized, including a phone line straight into the heart of the House of Representatives. Congress, to its credit, is not amused.more…
Download: Mobile Threat Report Q1 2013
Our Mobile Threat Report Q1 2013 is now publicly available. All of our past reports are also available in the “Labs” section of f-secure.com. On 15/05/13 At 12:45 PMmore…
State social media privacy laws a mixed bag for businesses
New social media privacy laws that have been enacted in several states around the country, or are in the works, present something of a mixed bag for businesses. read moremore…
High tech identity theft is less common than you think
We’re attending the Secure360 conference in (surprisingly) sunny St. Paul, MN this week, learning everything from lockpicking to disaster recovery. It’s a great event and reasonably priced, so if you’re in the area we highly recommend attending every year. One topic that interested us was identity theft, especially with the catchy title of, “Identity Theft […]more…
Is Microsoft reading your Skype instant messages?
L33tdawg: It’s always better to assume the answer to that question is a YES and act accordingly. Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H’s associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. […]more…
Microsoft rolls out UEFI firmware and other Surface updates
As part of its latest Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft rolled out new fixes and updates for its Surface Pro and Surface RT tablet/PC hybrids.surfaceblacktouch On May 14, the company made available UEFI firmware updates for both its Intel-based Pro and ARM-based RT models. Here’s the full list of what’s available for both kinds of Surfaces: […]more…