Securing an organization's assets requires work, and there are many different ways to classify controls. This white paper examines three common types of controls are administrative, technical, and physical.
Our Word for the Week: KOOBFACE. Koobface is Facebook scrambled. This malicious software targets users of social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. It’s purpose is to infect your PC and try to collect information about you or o...
Much has been written on the topic of Identity Theft. But what do we really know about the identity thieves themselves. Who are they? How do they operate? What motivates them? To begin with, one needs to appreciate that America is plagued with an endless epidemic of identity theft...
The Worldwide Cyber Security Summit, sponsored by the EastWest Institute in conjunction with major corporations such as Dell/Perot Systems, will bring together 450 participants from 40 countries including leaders from government, business and the private sector. The goal of the summit is to “determine new measures to ensure the security of the world’s digital infrastructure.”...
Automatic recognition of human faces is extremely useful in a wide area of applications, such as face identification for security and access control, surveillance of public places, mug shot matching and other commercial and law enforcement applications.
Unvarnished is a new website, in beta, you need to be invited. Users connect with Facebook. PC World seems to allude to anonymous posting on Unvarnished that can only happen if someone fakes a Facebook profile. Anything in the form of anonymous posting doesn’t benefit the common good...
One management practice that is often applied in structured organizations involves reporting the entire set of IT budget portfolio projects according to a view that links risk with value, as agreed between business functions and the IT department on the basis of predetermined yardsticks...
An Ethical Hacker tests a corporation's network defenses under contract by that corporation to identify weaknesses in the company's information security, so that the company can fix the problems before a malicious hacker (or cracker) finds and takes advantage of that weakness...
The NY Times reports “the intruders do not appear to have stolen passwords of Gmail users, and the company quickly started making significant changes to the security of its networks after the intrusions. But the theft leaves open the possibility, however faint, that the intruders may find weaknesses that Google might not even be aware of, independent computer experts said.”...