Robert Lemos of Dark Reading writes: The recently revealed abuse of insiders’ system privileges to commit fraud at Sprint could be a wake-up call for other enterprises to implement more stringent security practices, experts said this week. How many times have we seen a similar statement in the past five years? How many times have…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
The emotional impact of cybercrime
A new study by Norton reveals the staggering prevalence of cybercrime: 65% of Internet users globally, and 73% of U.S. Web surfers have fallen victim to cybercrimes, including computer viruses, online credit card fraud and identity theft. As the most victimized nations, America ranks third, after China (83%) and Brazil and India (76%). The first…
Ie: Behind the scenes and inside workings of a CERT
Regular contributor Brian Honan was interviewed by Help Net Security’s Mirko Zorz: Brian Honan is the founder and head of Ireland’s first Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) team as well as owner of BH Consulting. In this interview he discusses the inside workings of Ireland’s CERT and how it was formed. This particular CERT differs…
Article: Once More Unto the Breach: An Analysis of Legal, Technological and Policy Issues Involving Data Breach Notification Statutes
Dana Lesemann of the Howard University School of Law has an article of note in the Akron Intellectual Property Journal, Vol. 4, p. 203, 2010. Here’s the abstract: Companies facing the loss of a laptop or a compromised server have long waged battles on several fronts: investigating the source of the breach, identifying potentially criminal…
College Data Breaches Underscore Higher Ed Security Challenges
Brian Prince reports: Reports surfaced this week that the University of Virginia fell victim to a cyber-attack that stole nearly $1 million. Unfortunately for administrators at colleges and universities, their institutions are just as vulnerable to data breach woes as enterprises. According to reports, attackers used malware to steal online banking credentials for accounts belonging…
Email remains a major vector of enterprise data loss
Paul Mah reports: A new survey of some 261 U.S. enterprises with more than 1,000 employees has found that email remains the number one source of data loss risks. Indeed, 35 percent of companies say they investigated the exposure of confidential information via this medium in the last 12 months. Another 20 percent say they…