Articles & Analysis
FRANZ DESIGN, a Portlaoise company set up 11 years ago, was an early adopter of e-commerce, to the point that online orders came to account for 20% of annual…
**I. INTRODUCTION** Two photographs hung side by side on the wall. The first depicted a homicide detective's worst nightmare. A body lay twisted on the floor,…
Viruses, hackers and other cybersecurity dangers are a growing headache for millions of people -- but too few are learning how to fight the problem. That's the…
**Q:I received an e-mail message that seemed to be from eBay that said my account might be suspended if I don't update my account information. I think it is…
Matthew Prentice knew spyware was a growing problem for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Complaints of sluggish or crashing machines were becoming commonplace…
Internet security and crime affects everyone, whether they know it or not. Any person who uses the internet may be attacked at any moment and has most likely…
Fraud is becoming such a problem that it is expected to carve $2.8-billion (U.S.) out of the e-commerce industry in 2005, up $200-million from the year before.…
Congress is in the process of tweaking sixteen separate sections of the USA Patriot Act that were scheduled to sunset at the end of this year. There is a House…
The government launched its biggest ever internet safety campaign today in an attempt to make e-commerce safer. One of the leading lights behind the push is…
The cyber threat confronting the United States is rapidly increasing as the number of actors with the tools and abilities to use computers against the United…
First of two parts Two local teachers were arrested on Internet child pornography charges during the same week in June 2004. In Niagara Falls, Christian M.…
Of the security issues facing banks everywhere, prevention of card fraud has always been a high priority, and is set to grow even further in importance. The…
Computer crime cost UK businesses £2.4bn last year and this figure is likely to rise unless companies do more to protect themselves. Organised gangs are using…
Organisations, these days, spend huge sums of money to find the right people and train them in the skills that would eventually help the firm perform…
**Hackers can teach government and industry valuable IT security lessons** For a long time, most computer network crackers hacked a system for the same reason…
Today, almost all businesses rely on email for part of their communications needs. Yet a staggering proportion of email messages are destined not to…
**Snagging hackers is tougher than it may seem.** NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – News that hackers broke into the database of payment processor CardSystems, which…
**Netsky stays top as Zotob fails to make impact** Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against viruses, spyware and spam, has revealed the top ten…
Modern warfare is increasingly de pendent on advanced computers, and no country's armed forces are more reliant on the Digital Age than ours are. This is both…
Recently the eccentric security researcher [Michal Zalewski](http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/) published his first book, entitled [Silence on the Wire: A Field…
The hounding that has driven many suspects to suicide is based on tainted internet evidence, says expert witness Duncan Campbell Ministers preparing for next…
Ensuring the stability and security of the Internet must be a primary concern as the international community works to devise a framework for its governance and…
In the snow-draped mountains near Jalalabad in November 2001, as the Taliban collapsed and al Qaeda lost its Afghan sanctuary, Osama bin Laden biographer Hamid…
As in the first quarter of the year, Adware and Spyware detections were comfortably ahead of each of the rest of the categories, accounting for 51% of the…