Articles & Analysis
From March 15 to March 24, 2006, 351 U.S. IT decision-makers who work for organizations with at least 100 employees, at least 1 percent of whom have internet…
Ed Cartwright of the Canadian Marketing Association (CMA) says CMA members are beginning to embrace so-called "search advertising" as an effective way to…
At the height of his powers, Jeanson James Ancheta felt unstoppable. From his home in Downey, Calif., the then-19-year-old high school dropout controlled…
The television series CSI has given millions of viewers an appreciation of the role and importance of physical evidence in conducting criminal investigations.…
** We operate and maintain the backend office operations of a company located in Silicon Valley. Our offices are located in Gurgaon. Recently, our systems were…
In some ways, credit card fraud isn’t the problem it’s often made out to be. Visa says fraud accounts for about 7 cents of every $100 spent on its credit…
**Computer crime is changing as the Internet becomes a vital component of everyday life. So how do cyber cops keep up with it?** Over the past few years, the…
The aim of this article is to explore how far a person can use the retaliation tactics of preventive defence in India, whose computer has been targeted for a…
A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting of university presidents and representatives of the CIA and FBI convened to discuss campus issues related to national…
Successful exploitation of this MS .WMF vulnerability would allow an attacker to perform arbitrary code execution, initiate a denial-of-service attack, and…
Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against viruses, spyware and spam, has revealed the top ten malware threats of 2005, in a new in-depth report…
**Q: I've been receiving more and more bogus e-mails lately purporting to be from my bank, from PayPal, even from my Internet service provider. They tell me…
Author of Counter Hack Reloaded and Malware: Fighting Malicious Code A couple of years ago I did an interview with Ed Skoudis, Founder and Senior Security…
*The aim of this article is to analyse the applicability of the concept of “private defence” in cyberspace, particularly against cyber terrorism. The…
We always ask question: “How come we have so many compromised networks and identity theft incidents reported daily?” Maybe the answer lies between the human…
Like so many other aspects of our lives, major fraud has gone high tech. In fact, fuelled by excited media comment, computer crime and fraud are regarded as…
The photo-report of Computer Crime Research Center activities for 2002-2005 years. The congresses and conferences, seminars and round tables - everything that…
Eternal vigilance, American slavery abolitionist Wendell Phillips once said, is the price of liberty. It's also the price of Internet connectivity. Experts in…
Cyber crime, computer hacking, identity theft -- it all comes down to someone trying to get between you and as much of your money as possible. But instead of a…
**Cyber security breaches threaten, smarter factories and processes emerge, consulting business booms, and engineering talent base shrinks.** Engineers who…
The CAN-SPAM Act – America's federal anti-spam law – is working, according to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report. Recent trends show a decrease in the…
Rapid introduction of up-to-date information technologies into economy, management and, in particular, banking provoked arising new crimes - cyber crimes. In…
**1. FACTORS AFFECTING THE RISE OF CYBERCRIME IN FRANCE** Though there can be many factors which affect the rise of cybercrime, some major environmental…
The DoS Attack and The DDoS Attack In its simplest form, a Denial of Service (DoS) attack is an attack against any system component that attempts to force that…