There are bazillion scammers using a bazillion ruses to get your money. The lowest of the low are the ones who scam the elderly. These same conmen often do it door to door and can be very dangerous. Con men posing as city employees seem to be the most effective scam. In one incident 2 men pose...

2010 is going to be a dramatic year for the security industry.  Vendors and security professionals should prepare for a sea change.   Here are my predictions for the year...

Everyone asks me what the greatest theat to security is. They are visibly disappointed when I give them my answer...I believe it is you or maybe your co-worker...

An important consideration with information security incidents is identifying if personally identifiable information (PII) is involved. If it is, then the privacy breach response teamneeds to be put into action to determine whether or not an actual privacy breach occurred...

There’s a new game in town offering jobs to anyone with a home office and a computer.   Be careful what you or your kids accept when applying for jobs online.  You or your kids may be accepting a job working for a cybercriminal outfit.
Cybercriminals are posting help wanted ads on the internet and they are hiring people to help them infect computers across the Carolinas and even across the globe.

We’re close to landing some changes in the Firefox development tree that will fix a privacy leak that browsers have been struggling with for some time. We’re really excited about this fix, we hope other browsers will follow suit. It’s a tough problem to fix, though, so I’d like to describe how we ended up with this approach...

The IT Disaster Recovery Test as part of the Business Continuity testing is becoming an annual event for most IT departments. It is mandated by a lot of regulators, nearly insisted upon by internal audit and ofcourse a very healthy thing to do.

But performing the IT DRP test without proper risk management can put your organization at significant risk.

The Financial Management of Cyber Risk: An Implementation Framework for CFOs provides concrete, actionable recommendations for developing strategies that cross functional and departmental boundaries in mitigating the dangers and consequences of cyber risk.

Reading through the trade press, DLP vendor marketing collateral and various forums on information security,  the conventional wisdom is that the key threat to an organization is trusted insiders...

Now that the 3 major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo index real-time search for Twitter and other social networks, consumers and employees must be aware that not all relevant search is a safe click. Scammers and identity thieves see this as real-time free advertising for their malware...