Entries from Realtime Community | IT Compliance tagged with 'cybercrime'
On November 8, 2008 more than 130 ATM machines in 49 cities throughout the world were hit by a group of cybercriminals during a 30-minute period....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 5, 2009 3:21 PM
I've written a lot about the insider threat, and the many different motivations for insiders to do malicious things (in addition to the other two types of insider threats of mistakes and lack of awareness). Here are a couple of...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 9, 2008 7:32 PM
Whoa...here's what should be a good cybercrime deterrent......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 28, 2008 8:02 PM
Just last month I blogged about the new Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2008. It covers extortion. I'm interested to see if it gets used for the latest extortion attempt......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 7, 2008 10:16 AM
Research into the psychology of hackers has been going on ever since Cap'n Crunch cereal whistles were used to make free phone calls to anywhere in the world. I saw the ABC News article......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on October 25, 2008 4:47 PM
I just read about a new law signed at the end of September, 2008, by U.S. President Bush, H.R. 5983; the "Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2008" which is under Title II....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on October 12, 2008 7:59 PM
For the last day of Global Security Week (GSW) I'm providing a few items that relate to cybercrime that I find interesting......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 12, 2008 11:29 AM
Today is day 4 of Global Security Week (GSW). It is in memory of this sad and tragic day in 2001 that the spirit and concept of GSW was created. This is why GSW is held during the week leading...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 11, 2008 9:46 AM
For day 3 of Global Security Week I want to talk a little bit about the importance of securely disposing of your papers and storage media that contains personal information......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 10, 2008 12:20 PM
For day 2 of Global Security Week I want to highlight the growing problem of medical identity theft......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 9, 2008 10:39 AM
Here's an interesting article about cybercrime to kick off Day 1 of Global Security Week......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 8, 2008 6:22 PM
Okay, here's another example of a ridiculously dumb privacy breach that occurred, in Iowa this time, through a government agency posting information on the Internet......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 3, 2008 9:05 PM
Next week is Global Security Week! Do you have anything planned for your organization to help raise the awareness of all types of security issues? Here are a few ideas I wanted to pass along to you......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 2, 2008 9:36 PM
Yesterday CNN ran an interesting story, "U.S. at risk of cyberattacks, experts say." For those of you in the information security biz this is not new news, I know. We've known and discussed the massive and insidious types of damage...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 19, 2008 11:02 AM
Here is a very interesting-looking online seminar...FREE...looks worth checking out......
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 21, 2008 7:26 PM
Here's an interesting new law in Saudi Arabia... "New Law to Combat Information Technology Crimes...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 9, 2008 2:00 PM
Here's another good example of an actual cybercrime that was allowed to occur because poor of safeguards on computers provided for public use. On January 9, 2008, Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla plead guilty to installing keylogger software on hotel business center...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 14, 2008 9:47 AM
Here's a case I blogged about amost exactly a year ago, but it is worth revisiting since the sentencing for the crime was just handed down and it was significant. If you haven't already, put this in your file of...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on January 13, 2008 12:39 PM
Here's another insider threat example to know and to discuss with your legal counsel and HR folks. It highlights the need for information security and privacy policies, shows how information security and privacy must work with multiple areas on an...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 5, 2007 2:30 AM
I have a blog problem...there are way too many things I want to blog about and not enough hours in the day to do it! Throughout each day I note news items from the TV, or website news articles, or...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on October 17, 2007 8:57 PM
Today the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report, "Combating Identity Theft: Implementing a Coordinated Plan."...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 18, 2007 11:46 PM
On September 13, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced Irving Escobar, the alleged leader of a Florida fraud ring that used stolen credit card information linked to the TJX, data breach was sentenced to five years in prison and must...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on September 16, 2007 10:47 PM
I've always been fascinated with numbers. Math has always been fun, and one of my degrees is in math. I've never really studied numerology, but today's date, 07/07/07, only happens once each century, and it is interesting to see how...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on July 7, 2007 2:42 PM
Here's a great conversation starter for a nice chat with your business leaders, "The FBI has found over 1 million computers are controlled by criminal botnets." Be prepared to answer some follow-up questions from your business leaders after telling them...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 26, 2007 12:54 PM
As cybercrime continues to occur in more varied ways, as more incidents are reported every day, as new threats emerge, as more vulnerabilities are found within software and systems, often within those products that companies buy to improve security, the...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 4, 2007 10:06 AM
There has been a lot of talk and blogging recently about whether or not there is a need for an information security industry/profession. Um sure, and there is no need for the physical security industry/profession either, is there? As long...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on May 11, 2007 11:56 AM
Fraudsters and cybercriminals continue to find creative ways to exploit technology and human weakness to facilitate their crimes. Another new exploit they are using is hijacking popular Google search terms, typically targeting bank sites, and then inserting HTML into the...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 27, 2007 3:41 PM
There are many articles written about the insider threat, several have been done, and often the focus is on large organizations where those employees with malicious intent are often either in positions of trust way down in the org chart,...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on April 18, 2007 11:40 AM
Yesterday CNN reported the results of the FORTUNE 2007 survey of business people for the companies, in any industry, they admired most. The rankings were based upon 8 key score areas:...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 6, 2007 11:50 AM
This is the time of the year that thoughts turn to gardening as seed catalogs start filling the mailboxes. I enjoy having fresh-grown vegetables from my garden; nothing is better than a deep red, ripe, juicy Big Boy Beefsteak tomato...
Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 3, 2007 10:19 AM
An interesting article pointing out the way crooks use that 3-digit code on the back of your credit card was published in the Newark Advocate Saturday....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on February 19, 2007 12:30 AM
Yesterday USA Today ran a report, "Cybercrooks hold PC data captive." This is nothing new, I blogged about this type of ransom scheme earlier this year. The crooks are getting more creative....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on December 19, 2006 7:03 PM
Today CNN announced the Internet now has 100 million (100,000,000) web sites "with domain names and content on them." They provided several interesting accompanying statistics....
Posted by Rebecca Herold on November 1, 2006 7:59 PM
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