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Symantec said Monday SMBs in Hong Kong have the most casual attitude towards information security though 64 percent of them plan to increase IT security and storage in 2009. The security vendor has released the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) findings of its 2009 Global Small and Mid-sized Business (SMB) Security and Storage survey, revealing [...]
After an apparent victory in her efforts to prevent the UK from establishing a central database for private citizen communications, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding said she wants her government to create a post for a point-man for the continent’s cybersecurity. “Although the EU has created an agency for network and [...]
Legislation being introduced Tuesday in the U.S. Senate would make sweeping changes in how cybersecurity is handled at the federal level, creating a chief information security officer (CISO) position in the White House that reports directly to the president. Information and Communications Enhancement (ICE) Act being introduced by Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.), places a federal [...]
Among the 1,000-plus U.S. adults randomly polled by Competitive Edge Research & Communication (CERC), 10 percent said they had been victims of identity theft. According to CERC, that percentage is equivalent to 23 million victims in the U.S. About 23 percent also said they know someone who was an identity theft victim. The poll was [...]
The FBI has made cybercrime one of its top three priorities and currently has full time cyber officers deployed in 60 countries, Shawn Henry, assistant director for the agency’s Cyber Division, said at the RSA conference last week. “Through those efforts we have arrested almost 100 people, recovered millions of dollars,” Henry said. “There’s been [...]
In January, Heartland Payment Systems Inc. reported what may be the largest data heist ever. The company said that a “global cyberfraud operation” stole information from more than 100 million credit cardholders. Someone had planted a software “sniffer” in a Heartland server disk, where it apparently nosed around undetected for weeks. These mega-breaches make big [...]
The new Cybercrime Response Unit offers a forensic scanning tool that checks for malware on the computer and cookies left by suspicious Web sites to help determine if the machine has been compromised. A toll-free number is available for people whose scan results are worrisome. Click here for information
Thousands of confidential files on the U.S. military’s most technologically advanced fighter aircraft have been compromised by unknown computer hackers over the past two years, according to senior defense officials. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s self-diagnostic system was compromised by hackers, officials say. The Internet intruders were able to gain access to data related to [...]
Part of the romance of travel is the notion that you’re visiting remote, isolated wonders. The trouble is, when you arrive somewhere like Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat or the Pyramids at Giza, you find you’re not alone — the place is crawling with hordes of poorly dressed tourists that muck up your pristine photographs. Snapmania [...]
