I'm a Fortune 500 Company and I've Been Hacked

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I'm a Fortune 500 Company and I've Been Hacked

By Perry Varanoid on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 | No Comments

“One of the more interesting cyber security phenomenons Ive witnessed recently is not only the willingness of CEOs to admit that their company has suffered a breach, but the enthusiasm in which they have shown in making the admission. In what seems like only a short-time ago, company management, often on the advice of legal counsel, had no appetite to discuss issues of cyber security. This was especially the case when it had been compromised….”

US Lawmakers Offer Cybersecurity Olive Branch

By Perry Varanoid on Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 | No Comments

“Backers of a cybersecurity bill which stalled in Congress last year offered changes Monday in an effort to ease concerns of privacy and civil liberties activists. The two top lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee said the panel would meet Wednesday to vote on the Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Protection Act, a measure which passed the House last year but died in the Senate

Phishing gang found guilty of spending woman's life savings

By Perry Varanoid on Monday, April 8th, 2013 | No Comments

“Eight members of a London-based phishing gang that went on a 'cheeseburgers and gold' spending binge after robbing a British expat of her APS1 million ($1.

Your Facebook friends may be evil bots

By Perry Varanoid on Monday, April 8th, 2013 | No Comments

“How safe is your online social network? Not very, as it turns out

The 5 biggest online privacy threats of 2013

By Perry Varanoid on Monday, April 8th, 2013 | No Comments

“Your online life may not seem worth tracking as you browse websites, store content in the cloud, and post updates to social networking sites. But the data you generate is a rich trove of information that says more about you than you realize–and it's a tempting treasure for marketers and law enforcement officials alike. Battles have long raged over how third parties can access and use your data….”

Russias Digital Underground – How the Kremlin is waging war on information freedom.

By Perry Varanoid on Saturday, April 6th, 2013 | No Comments

“On March 26, a village school in a distant Russian region in Eastern Siberia, only few kilometers from the Mongolian border, was raided by the authorities. A team of FSB agents with the support of a local prosecutor's office rushed into the school in Kochetovo village in the Tuva republic. Were these agents of the state hot on the trail of terrorists, Mafiosi, or drug smugglers?…”

DHS: Spear Phishing Campaign Targeted 11 Energy Sector Firms

By Perry Varanoid on Saturday, April 6th, 2013 | No Comments

“A spear phishing campaign targeted 11 energy sector organizations using publicly available information, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Attackers collected employee names, company email addresses, company affiliation, and work titles from an electric utility's Web site to craft the spear phishing campaign, according to the latest issue of the ICS-CERT Monitor, a quarterly publication released by Homeland Security's Industrial Control System-Computer Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). The names were on a page listing the attendees at a recent committee meeting….”

Hacking The User Security Awareness And Training Debate

By Perry Varanoid on Friday, April 5th, 2013 | No Comments

“You know the adage: There's no patch for human stupidity. But as many organizations have witnessed their user security training programs falling flat, along with a constant wave of targeted and other types of attacks that invariably begin with a user falling for a phishing email, the debate over just how to get end users to practice secure habits in their organizations has intensified these days.

An Inside look at avoiding cloud risks

By Perry Varanoid on Thursday, April 4th, 2013 | No Comments

“At the speed at which companies and individuals are adopting multiple cloud platforms, the high level of risk is unavoidable. In this article we will cover recent events in the UK and Europe, which have exposed millions of users due to lack of planning and contingency. It is important to point out that I am in no way against cloud technologies, in actual fact I have been involved in building some of the largest platforms for over ten years….”

Report thumping Army for mobile cyber security efforts yanked off DoD website

By Perry Varanoid on Thursday, April 4th, 2013 | No Comments

“A report from the Inspector General of the U. S Department of Defense that's critical of the way the Army has handled mobile-device security has been inexplicably yanked from the IG DoD public website but can still be found in the Google caching system

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