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How to recognize your insider threats
For a view of insider threats to computer systems from the military perspective, take a look at a post by Jeffrey R. Jones and Ryan Averbeck at CSO magazine. Insiders today have greater capacity to
Iran says it has detained computer worm suspects
Iran says it has arrested and detained "nuclear spies" in relation to the Stuxnet worm that is currently infiltrating government equipment . While actual details were scant, this development does
New study says cybercrime costs enterprises $3.8 million a year
A new report by the Ponemon Institute has pegged the average cost of cyber attacks at $3.8 million a year. This figure comes from an actual study of 45 U.S. organizations involved in data breaches
Google scrambles over Microsoft Bing
Reports have it that Google co-founder Sergey Brin was so rattled by Microsoft's Bing search engine that a team of top engineers have been assembled in put together some "urgent upgrades" to Google's
Data security's worst year yet
A report released by the security tracking Identity Theft Resource Center said there were 646 data breach incidents reported in 2008, a 47 percent increase over 2007 and an all-time record. The spike
The threat within trumps external risks
While CIOs and CSOs are often concerned with the threat of viruses and other external sources of danger, a new study from the U.S. Computer Security Institute (CSI) concludes that company insiders
Beware of the security enemy within
Keep an eye out for disgruntled employees. A new study finds that employees with an axe to grind are most likely to sabotage corporate systems. These employees' discontentment makes them
ALSO NOTED: Hackers custom coding zero-day malware for specific markets; Analyst: Lots of hype when it comes to server virtuali
> Hackers now custom coding zero-day malware for specific markets. Article >
ALSO NOTED: Patches for Office, Windows eliminate some 'critical' risks; Healthcare industry shying from proprietary systems; a
> Patches for Office, Windows eliminate some "critical" risks. Article > Why healthcare industry is shying from proprietary systems.
