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• Night Dragon: An Old New Tale of Cyber-Espionage

  Chinese spies are at it again, or so we are being told. Based on pretty circumstantial evidence, McAfee Inc. (NYSE: MFE) has pointed the finger of blame on the Chinese for a longstanding series of attacks dubbed “Night Dragon.” In targeted attacks th...

• Top 40 Countries for Copyright Piracy & Cyberlockers

  The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is preparing for its annual “Special 301” report, which describes the adequacy and effectiveness of US trading partners’ protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). It is due to be pr...

• US Banks Lag on Biometrics for Security

  Financial institutions around the world are increasingly utilizing biometrics at ATMs and for online banking, in the fight to keep the fraudsters at bay. (Magnetic strip cards, notoriously vulnerable to fraud, are still in abundance, and in the US, card s...

• Trojans: An Epic Tale of Cyber-Crime

  The onslaught from malware has continued unabated so far this year. Cyber-criminals persist with an adroit ability to adapt, seemingly always just one step ahead of being caught. Recently discovered Trojans such as Oddjob and Tatanarg, so reminiscent of t...

• Understanding Advanced Persistent Threats

  “Know your enemy” is a much-used phrase from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, and it is as true now as when it was written over two thousand years ago. The question posed for the cyber-world of today is how to “know” a faceless and determined opponent ...

• iBots & Smartphone Slavery: How to Prevent It

  As the sale of smartphones continues to jump by leaps and bounds (vendors shipped a total of 302.6 million smartphones worldwide in 2010), cyber-criminals are finding the lure of a potentially lucrative market too much of a temptation. First we saw the r...