German Engineer Arrested In Card Skimming Plot

A German engineer was sentenced to three years in jail on Friday after he was found transporting card skimming technology into Britain according to a report from Reuters UK. Thomas Beeckmann, 26, was stopped at London’s Victoria Coach Station in June with 17 electronic scamming circuits. The...

Report: U.S. Is Hyping Threat Of Cyber War

A new report suggests that lawmakers, policy wonks and corporations are sensationalizing the risk of cyber attacks far beyond the actual threat. The inflation of cyber security threat, like the inflation of the threat of Communism during the Cold War, or terrorist acts in the wake of the 9/11...

Study: Three Of Four Energy Firms Had Data Breach In Last Year

Three quarters of global energy corporations have suffered one or more data breaches in the last 12 months, according to a new survey by The Ponemon Institute, which finds evidence of widespread shortcomings in the energy and utilities vertical. The report, “The State of IT Security: Study of...

Most Websites Vulnerable To Attack !

The average website has serious vulnerabilities more than nine months of the year, according to a new report issued yesterday. According to a study issued by researchers at WhiteHat Security, the average site is exposed about 270 days of the year. "Information Leakage" has replaced Cross-Site...

Google Releases Permanent Opt-Out Extension For Chrome

Google has delivered a new tool that enables Chrome users to permanently opt out of ad-tracking cookies in the company’s browser. The new extension gives users the ability to make their choices about not being tracked by online advertisers permanent, at least in Google Chrome. The move by Google ...

Nepal Imposes New Rules on Cyber Cafes to Curb Cyber Crimes

Some 300 internet cafes in Nepal are now under police surveillance following a new government regulation aimed at curbing cyber crimes. According to SSP Rana Bahadur Chand, chief of the Metropolitan Police Crime Division MPCD, cyber cafe users must now present ID cards and register their names,...

Top 10 IT Security Trends for 2011

The crystal ball gazing has started early this year. Typically, tech prediction pieces emerge after Christmas, but the first 'security trends for 2011' missive has already dropped into my inbox. So, what does the somewhat premature Imperva Application Defense Center think will worry us the most o...

Ad Groups Try to Make Opting Out of Tracking Ads Easier

In the latest attempt to allay consumers’ rising fears about the massive amounts of data that online advertisers collect about them, an amalgamation of industry groups is planning to launch a new self-regulation effort meant to let users decide not to be tracked by advertisers. The program will...

The Folly of Internet Wiretapping

The last 10 years have seen a great number of advancements in the sophistication and usability of strong encryption programs, and many people now use encrypted messaging services by default. This has made it much simpler for people to keep their private thoughts and data private and secure, and n...

Adam Shostack on User-Centric Privacy and the Need for Smarter Regulation

Dennis Fisher talks with author Adam Shostack about the merits of the user-centric privacy model, why users don’t pay more attention to privacy and data collection and the need for smarter privacy regulations. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

HP Snags Application Testing Firm Fortify

The drumbeat for more secure application development picked up pace on Tuesday, with news that software giant HP had acquired privately funded Fortify Software, a maker of static code analysis tools, for an undisclosed amount. HP said that Fortify’s static analysis tools will complement its dynam...

It's Time For a New Privacy Model

The current raft of stories about privacy problems on Facebook and other high-profile sites is leading to a renewed consideration in some circles of whether there’s a need for tighter government regulation of sites’ privacy policies and user notifications. Regulation, experts say, may be the only...

Online Privacy: Industry Self-Regulation

This Google TechTalk features Aleecia McDonald of Carnegie Mellon University discussing how we arrived at the current state of online privacy and how self-regulation works in practice...

New cybersecurity czar faces a tough road

While much of the reaction to President Obama’s speech on Internet security last week has centered on who Obama will name to the newly created cybersecurity coordinator position, that may be a moot point unless there is a dramatic change in the way that security is handled at the highest levels i...

Hacker Mitnick teaches Social Engineering(social engineering) awareness-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Security adviser as well as the famous hacker Kevin Mitnick noted that the staff be properly trained to be than a technology better able to avoid sensitive information by Social Engineering attack. “People previously used techniques to solve such problems, but Social Engineering can circumvent...