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It could be time to delegate other functions and focus on these core issues. Do you spend your days worrying…
Virtualization, web 2.0, and the cloud bring new security threats, but budgets are tight. A key issue: how to leverage…
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It has been all about listening to the global payment community this year through feedback cycle and education programs, and…
04.02.10
The man accused of cracking a Twitter database and peeking at the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama and Britney Spears said this week that he didn't mean harm, according to a French TV station. More detail
03.25.10
(Reuters) - Internet domain company GoDaddy.com said it planned to stop registering domain names in China, joining Google Inc in protesting cyber attacks and censorship in that country.
"We believe that many of the current abuses of the Internet originating in China are due to a lack of enforcement against criminal activities by the Chinese government," Christine Jones, Go Daddy Group Inc general counsel, told a congressional commission hearing on Wednesday. More detail
03.24.10
Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine's capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world's most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses. More detail
03.13.10
Pennsylvania's chief information securityofficer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system. A source close to the matter said Maley was terminated for not getting the required approvals from the Commonwealth's authorities to talk publicly about the incident. More detail
02.24.10
Without global security, cyber crime is growing danger to global economy
LONDON - The best weapon against the online thieves, spies and vandals who threaten global business and security would be international regulation of cyberspace.
Luckily for them, such cooperation does not yet exist. More detail
Thanks to tough economic times (and the resulting hit on our wallets) and a generous dollop of fear-mongering from the media and opportunistic profiteers, we’ve all become myopically obsessed with cyber-crime. This is not entirely a bad thing. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, everyone knows that technology has created unimaginable opportunity for resourceful crooks. The pitfall is in our myopia.
We’ve become so obsessed with cyber-crime – a “petty” offense in the ... More detail
Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn't that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated -- we knew that already -- it's that the U.S. government inadvertently aided the hackers. More detail
Risk management only works when it factors into everyone's thinking. Kerri Grosslight of Wells Fargo lays out steps for getting there. Faced with challenging economic times and heightened legislative and regulatory scrutiny, companies across all industries are increasingly compelled to keep risk management top of mind. Success depends upon customer and shareholder confidence in a company's ethical standards and its ability to make prudent decisions about handling risks. Whether a company's risk ... More detail
Right about now, CIOs are finalizing budgets for 2010, and one of the main issues will be how to prepare for the next security threat. This is always a challenge regardless of the year; it's akin to looking into a crystal ball and trying to counter some ill-defined potential adversary that is largely out of an organization's direct control.However, that is most likely not where a company's biggest vulnerability lies. For all the tools and solutions won't matter if the people in charge of impleme... More detail
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