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Mastermind behind Kelihos botnet worked for security firms
A Russian man accused by Microsoft ( NASDAQ: MSFT ) of creating the Kelihos botnet worked by day for a couple of security firms. Before being shut down by Microsoft in September, the Kelihos botnet was
A case for 'least privilege' solutions to the insider threat
For years now it's been widely understood that the greatest threat to information security comes from inside the corporation. You have to constantly be on the lookout for all the usual suspects:
Inside job: Home truths about cyber-insecurity
Guest post by Neal A. Pollard and David Etue Who's already inside your firewall? What information can they access now? What can they do with it that could hurt your organization? It's entirely
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
Lying IT pros and the lies they tell
What do you do when you discover that a long-time, trusted systems administrator has been secretly selling you pirated software while running a porn site on one of your servers and downloading
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
70 percent of financial institutions attacked by insiders
These days, it appears that the threats to your data are coming from the inside, as well as from the outside. In a new survey, 70 percent of financial institutions say they have experienced a case of
Most insider leaks are accidents
A new report by research firm IDC finds that more than half of those surveyed characterized insider threat incidents as predominantly accidental. Less than 20 percent believe they are deliberate.
