Military importance of cyber recognised February 2010 | Redaction | Leave a comment Cyber attack and defence will become more militarily important in the very near future according to the Institute for Strategic Studies London. The think-tank’s annual report stressed the growing likelihood of ‘asymmetric techniques’ becoming the weapons of choice for use … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: From Crime to Organised Crime August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment Just as the public horror of house-breaking is fed by fears of what more the criminal might do; from malicious damage to torture, rape and murder in the household. In the same way cyber crime feeds on fears of major … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: The Affiliate Network August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment Affiliate networks literally allow anyone (eg people made redundant, and people after easy money) to quickly make cash. But it can also make them part of a cyber criminal network. SV: When we were discussing how crime has evolved into organised … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: The Rise of The Robots August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment “…security researchers who try to find the control servers are likely to be hit by DDoS attacks against their systems. Typical DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks involve flooding an Internet service with so much traffic that it ceases to … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: Social Engineering and Social Networks August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment …botnets are now being used to automatically hunt for points of weakness on websites… SV: Let’s talk about social engineering on the Internet. How do you perceive it?Dave: Social engineering is the process of manipulating the user, so that they … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: From Organised Crime to Coup August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment “…The possibilities for cyber warfare are wide open…purposeful cyberwar could take many forms, but is likely to target military and government sites as well as national utilities like water, electricity supply and the media.” SV: Where do you see the … Continue reading → Tweet
Cyber Crime: The Effects of Cyber Crime Today August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment …If a large corporation buys a mailing list or a report on their competitors’ market strategy, how much detail do they ask about where the data came from and how it was gathered? Just as individuals can be tempted to … Continue reading → Tweet
2009′s Latest on The Evolving Threat Landscape August 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment Dave Endler, Senior Director of TippingPoint’s DVLabs security research team gave a special interview with SecurityVibes. Here Dave discusses the broad trends and implications of cyberthreats and uses recent attacks as examples to illustrate these trends. For the average non-specialist … Continue reading → Tweet
Going For A Coffee? Lock Your Desktop First! June 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment The title of this article was the quote on the free mug at the recent ENISA sponsored security awareness event at Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf, which highlighted their focus in support of an on-going awareness programme: “It has been … Continue reading → Tweet
Strategies to Take to Protect Lives and Ensure Business Continuity in the Midst of a Terrorist Attack May 2009 | Redaction | Leave a comment What strategies does your business have should a terrorist attack occur? Hint: If you don’t know you have one, you should be reading this article. With the recent testing of Nuclear weapons by North Korea, concerns about terrorism and even … Continue reading → Tweet
