Articles & Analysis

November 28, 2005 · Sandra O’Connell
Fraud: Online security concerns

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…

November 25, 2005 · Scott Charney, Kent Alexander
Types of computer crime

**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,…

November 23, 2005 · Chuck McCutcheon
Viruses, hackers and other cybersecurity dangers

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…

November 21, 2005 · Arati Bechtel
Howto avoid phishing scam

**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…

November 18, 2005 · searchsmb.techtarget.com
Spyware howto

Matthew Prentice knew spyware was a growing problem for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Complaints of sluggish or crashing machines were becoming commonplace…

November 15, 2005 · BarkerJr
Cyber crime

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…

November 10, 2005 · Jack Kapica
E-fraud: damage increases

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.…

November 2, 2005 · James Plummer
New Patriot Act revisions affect computer industry

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…

October 28, 2005 · Iain Thomson
Internet safety approaches

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…

October 24, 2005 · Jim Kouri, CPP
Cybercrime: Threat increasing

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…

October 19, 2005 · Dan Herbeck
Child porn: State goes easy on child porn offenders

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.…

October 18, 2005 · Paul Meadowcroft, head of transaction security of the e-Security activities of the Thales Group
Credit card fraud, IT Observer

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…

October 16, 2005 · Daniel Thomas
Specialist police units tackle computer crime

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…

October 12, 2005 · Aarti
Security issues: find the enemy within

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…

October 4, 2005 · Michael Arnone
White hat, gray hat, black hat

**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…

September 29, 2005 · securitypark.co.uk
Controlling spam

Today, almost all businesses rely on email for part of their communications needs. Yet a staggering proportion of email messages are destined not to…

September 21, 2005 · Jeanne Sahadi
Credit card breach: Tracing who dunnit

**Snagging hackers is tougher than it may seem.** NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – News that hackers broke into the database of payment processor CardSystems, which…

September 7, 2005 · Sophos
Top ten viruses and hoaxes reported to Sophos in August 2005

**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…

August 30, 2005 · Peter Brookes
The Art of Cyber War

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…

August 28, 2005 · Federico Biancuzzi
Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks

Recently the eccentric security researcher [Michal Zalewski](http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/) published his first book, entitled [Silence on the Wire: A Field…

August 25, 2005 · Sunday Times
A flaw in the child porn witch-hunt

The hounding that has driven many suspects to suicide is based on tainted internet evidence, says expert witness Duncan Campbell Ministers preparing for next…

August 16, 2005 · Computer Crime Research Center
Internet Stability, Security Must Be Maintained, U.S. Says

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…

August 9, 2005 · Steve Coll, Susan B. Glasser and Julie Tate
Terrorists Turn to the Web as Base of Operations

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…

August 8, 2005 · compiled by CCRC
Computer crime: Malware Quarterly Report, PandaLabs

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…