Cybercriminals are moving aggressively to take advantage of an unanticipated chink in corporate defenses: the use of social networks in workplace settings. They are taking tricks honed in the spamming world and adapting them to what’s driving the growth of social networks: speed and openness of individuals communicating on the Internet. Read more click here
Why Becoming a Data Thief Is All Too Easy
February 19th, 2010Older versions of the powerful, simple-to-use ZeuS hacking tool are readily available for free on criminal forums. ZeuS is best known as widely popular banking Trojan. Current versions of ZeuS sell for up to $10,000, and are used by elite cyber gangs to wire funds from of the online banking accounts of small- and medium-sized businesses. Read More here…
Government Warns of Looming Cyberthreats
February 5th, 2010Seeing the recent attacks against Google as a “wake-up call,” Blair cautioned those who may treat the problem lightly. He also praised companies who report such incidents as they help Washington better understand the nature of cyberthreats that can affect the entire nation.
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Report: Companies Unprepared For Cybercrime
January 29th, 2010In a survey conducted last year of 523 IT and security managers, top-level executives, and law enforcement personnel, hackers were rated the biggest threat, followed by insiders and foreign entities–probably because hackers are the “noisiest and easiest to detect,” the 2010 CyberSecurity Watch Survey concluded. To Read More Click Here!
Do You IQ?
January 26th, 2010Send and receive emails hacker-free from the office or your mobile device. IQ Webmail offers not only security but peace of mind to its users.
In a world where technology and the Internet are part of everyday lives, your privacy is at risk and events such as identity theft are a scary and common occurrence. E-mails with confidential information can be easily intercepted and hacked, which often leads to theft and other problems. This is where new technology comes in to protects our assets. Read more!
Recognizing Phishing E-mails
November 30th, 2009If you have received an e-mail from the Internal Revenue Service or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, chances are it was a phishing attempt. If you received e-mail from your bank, PayPal, or Facebook urging you to immediately verify information or risk having your account suspended, it was undoubtedly phishing. Read here…
ChoicePoint to Pay $275,000 in Latest Data Breach
October 21st, 2009ChoicePoint, one of the nation’s largest data brokers, has been fined $275,000 by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for a data breach that exposed personal information of 13,750 people last year.
In April 2008, ChoicePoint turned off a key electronic security tool that it used to monitor access to one of its databases and failed to notice the problem for four months, according to an FTC statement. Read More Here!
Missing Laptop Contains Data on 800,000 Doctors
October 15th, 2009The Chicago Tribune reports that some 800,000 doctors are being warned about a laptop holding their personal data that has turned up missing from the Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Read more…
20,000 Hotmail Passwords Exposed
October 7th, 2009Some 20,000 Hotmail account holders’ usernames and password have now been exposed on the Internet. The Hotmail logins were stolen via a phishing attack, says Microsoft. “We determined that this was not a breach of internal Microsoft data and initiated our standard process of working to help customers regain control of their accounts.” Read more…