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In a story that could have come right out of a movie, a widely respected police officer turned out to be a Mexican national who stole an American identity and moved to Alaska to become a cop. I’ll bet...
1. Realize that you can become a victim at any time. Not a day goes by when we don’t hear about a new hack. With 55,000 new pieces of malware a day, security never sleeps. 2. Think before you post. St...
Operation Night Clone is a great success for Europol - not only has a major international skimming group been taken out of play, but Europol has again shown its operational teeth as a pan-European La...
I was recently browsing, when I came upon an interesting article. It was discussing the Monty Hall problem. For those of you who don’t know, this problem is based on a US quiz show and has caused ...
I finally got one of those “I’m stuck in London” emails. My friend Kate’s Gmail account was hacked, and everyone on her contact list received an email from a hacker posing as Kate: “Hi, Apologies, but...
Once criminal hackers get a person’s username and email address, they can begin to launch a targeted spear phish scam. Scammers copy the design of each breached entities outgoing email campaign and bl...
Will the fallout from the News of the World scandal hit the banks next? It seems that not a day goes by without more revelations of hacking and data theft relating to the News of the World and its sis...
It’s very interesting to see that Santander is bringing back 500 contact centre agents from India to the UK. This is good news for the UK economy, and is also part of a much wider trend in customer s...
The recent spate of high profile data losses aptly demonstrates the many ways in which data can go astray and reinforces the need to have every potential leakage point protected. Whether it is Wikilea...
Hackers claimed yesterday that they had hacked NATO primary servers including nato.int. Read, this is not the library where 11,000 often amateurish passwords were used by Military, NSA and other perso...
Do information security standards expose organizations to shared vulnerabilities? Why do data breaches occur with such frequency? Recent European Commission announcement on reporting of data security ...
According to a recent report from Verizon, data breaches are on the rise. There were 760 data breaches recorded in 2010, compared to 140 breaches in 2009. However, there were approximately four milli...