Posts Tagged ‘cybercriminals’

Government Devotes More Brainpower And Money To Cybersecurity

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Cybersecurity, fast becoming Washington’s growth industry of choice, appears to be in line for a multibillion-dollar injection of federal research dollars, according to a senior intelligence official. Read more here!

How Cybercriminals Invade Social Networks, Companies

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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

Report: Companies Unprepared For Cybercrime

Friday, January 29th, 2010

In 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!