Last month, McAfee Cybercrime Strategist Pamela Warren sat down with a senior executive at a Sydney bank to discuss the risks to the corporate network from workers using social networking. After going over the trade-offs associated with allowing insiders to use social networks at work, his team confirmed that they would use data leak prevention technology to monitor the network traffic--balan
A mind-boggling figure of $276 million worth cyber goods and services were advertised online between July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008, data according to Symantec.The security company report on the underground cybercrime economy, to be released on Monday, sorting out the fact that stolen data and crime tools are widely available on Internet and at a very affordable price.The $276 million figure in the
The criminal mastermind lives somewhere in Russia. Drawing on his links to the underworld, he uses the internet to pull the strings of a shadowy network of misanthropes allegedly connected to the Kremlin.
Jakarta - Undang-Undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik (UU ITE) boleh jadi adalah UU Cyber pertama di Indonesia. Ke depannya, pihak Kepolisian pun mengharapkan ada UU spesifik kejahatan cyber. Hal itu dikemukakan Kanit Cyber Crime Bareskrim Mabes Polri Kombes Pol Petrus Golose dalam jumpa pers setelah pengesahan Undang-Undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik (ITE) di Jakarta, Selasa (25/3/20
When you hear the term black market, what do you think of? Marijuana. Cocaine. Heroin. Assault rifles. Human trafficking. Crime syndicates sitting around a smoky table in a private back room. Do these Hollywood images of the black market truly represent the new Internet underground? “Operation Firewall” was a large and successful [...]
You know that I criticize SANS from time to time. Especially when it come to their handlers, I am convinced that they are creating the problem rather than solving it.
This time I have to say that I am impressed as they are helping developing countries to help to fight Cybercrime. This is as "we are all in this together". As I say often, that we have to collaborate and build partnerships in order t
Of course society benefits from computers and the internet, but the flip side are countless criminal opportunities for identity thieves/cybercriminals. If we all have a good understanding of what cybercrime is, we can take steps to reduce the risk. Even if you do not buy goods or services online, you may still become [...]
One of the most popular methods to carry out identity theft and other forms of cybercrime is the use of the “Trojan Horse”. The term “Trojan Horse” goes way back to a Greek fable where the Greeks constructed this massive wooden horse and then wheeled it over to the Trojans and offered it to [...]
Consolidated cybercrime bill faces tough battle in CongressGiven the rice crisis in the country and high-profile bills pending in Congress, Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) chairman Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua III believes that it would take a lot more effort to convince legislators that its consolidated cybercrime bill also needs attention.The CICT chairman said the agency is working closely with the Department of Justice on the passage of the consolidated cybercrime bill.Roxas-Chua said there were four versions of the cybercrime bill filed at the House of Representatives. He added that the consolidated bill would contain definitions of cybercrime, punishment of such crimes and provisions on cooperation with the international community, among others.Last year, the
In an effort to regulate the investigation of digital crime in the US, some states are looking at limiting the practice to Private Investigators. North and South Carolina, Georgia, New York, Nevada, Texas, Virginia and Washington are just some of the states that are enacting mandatory licensing of all forensic investigators. One of the main problems around the investigation of digital crime is the issue of jurisdiction. Digital crime is borderless. Someone in New York can perpetrate criminal activities in Los Angeles without moving from his of her desk. According to the new laws anyone investigating this crime would have to be licensed in both New York and LA for his or her findings to be admissible in a court of law. Should supporting digital evidence be found in any other states, the inv
In an effort to regulate the investigation of digital crime in the US, some states are looking at limiting the practice to Private Investigators. North and South Carolina, Georgia, New York, Nevada, Texas, Virginia and Washington are just some of the states that are enacting mandatory licensing of all forensic investigators. One of the main problems around the investigation of digital crime is the issue of jurisdiction. Digital crime is borderless. Someone in New York can perpetrate criminal activities in Los Angeles without moving from his of her desk. According to the new laws anyone investigating this crime would have to be licensed in both New York and LA for his or her findings to be admissible in a court of law. Should supporting digital evidence be found in any other states, the inv
Its time to depand on web so it the most necessary job to mantain the high level security of data and other related.
Officials weakened another provision that had rattled ISPs, which were concerned that companies could be asked to create an exhaustive list of data types that law enforcement authorities could seek. Instead, service providers are encouraged to spell out the data available but with
A Ukrainian man once known as one of the top ringleaders in Eastern Europe-based organized cyber crime is now heading up a new political party there. Dmitri Ivanovich Golubov, a 24-year-old from Odessa, is leading the upstart “Internet Party of Ukraine,” a party he helped create shortly after parliamentary elections in the country [...]
This book is a bridge between two distinct cultures; that of IT professionals responsible for building systems that prevent cybercrime, and law enforcement officials responsible for investigating and prosecuting those crimes. It introduces IT professionals to the highly structured world of law enforcement, where rules of evidence must be followed closely and crime [...]
The UAE is the source and target of the most web security threats in the region, according to figures from Symantec. The security firm said the UAE was ranked 46th out of 180 countries monitored as an originator of phishing attacks; the UAE received the same ranking for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks launched at [...]
A Global Survey of Cybercrime Laws * A - B (Afghanistan - Burundi) * C - D (Cambodia - Dominican Republic) * E - H (Ecuador - Hungary) * I - L (Iceland - Luxembourg) * M - N (Macedonia - Norway) * O - R (Oman - Rwanda) * S - T [...]
Not enough is being done to prevent low-level cyber-crime because it is not a priority to the police or Home Office, according to independent peer Lord Erroll. Erroll told Microsoft’s Architectural Insight Conference that cybercrime has been a contentious issue for some time and is not going away. ’E-Crime is climbing steadily, but [...]
According to an independent peer, Lord Erroll, not enough is being done to prevent low-level cyber-crime as it is not a priority to the police or Home Office. ’E-Crime is climbing steadily, but it’s not a Home Office or police priority,’ said Erroll. ’There is a feeling that all we need to do [...]
Alabama will be the home of a new national center for training investigators to find evidence hidden within the memory of computers, which experts said today is increasingly important in cases ranging from terrorism to identity theft. Digital forensics can be a factor in all sorts of police investigations. Cases involving everything from [...]
UAE internet users’ fear of online threats is stopping them from conducting transactions online, according to a study conducted by security vendor Symantec. Of 400 respondents living in the emirates who claimed to be regular internet users, 83% said they would conduct more online transactions if they felt more secure, the security firm [...]
Cybercrime is getting cheaper all the time, as shady characters sell tools to help criminals spam, phish, hack and crash. And a new treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate could wind up passing the costs of combating cybercrime directly to American businesses. From an economic standpoint, when the cost of crime goes down, [...]
Cybercrime is written by the leading academic experts and government officials who team together to present a state-of-the-art vision for how to detect and prevent digital crime, creating the blueprint for how to police the dangerous back alleys of the global Internet. For more details : www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814799833/ref= pe_pe_5050_4942960_pe_snp_833
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