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• Exfiltration: The Great Data Escape

  Exfiltration is a military term for the removal of assets from within enemy territory by covert means. It now has an excellent modern usage in computing, meaning the illicit extraction of data from a system. So once inside an enterprise, how do hackers e...

• Russian Cybercrime: A Market Analysis

  There have been many attempts to define the cost of the effects of cybercrime, but very little in the way of defining cybercrime in terms of a business or market that can be analyzed. There's no better place to start than with what many would regard as th...

• Coreflood's 10 Years of Virtual Theft May Not Be Over

  Last week the US Department of Justice and the FBI issued a welcome announcement on the security front, with the takedown of the Coreflood botnet. Fundamentally, this is good news, but as the Coreflood botnet has been operating for an estimated 10 years,...

• Scams Spear the Enterprise Phish

  Is your enterprise up to date with the latest batch of Microsoft fixes -- or updates for Adobe Acrobat, Flash, your operating system, or even your browser? If not, you could be the latest victim of spear phishing. To review, phishing is a general method ...

• The Online Kids Are Not Alright

  If the snippet I’ve seen is anything to go by, a new movie called Trust, directed by David Schwimmer, might be essential viewing for parents and their children. It tells the story that cyberspace can be a dangerous place and explores the problems of cyb...

• Don't Minimize the Epsilon Episode

  Well, it’s Christmas in April for the spammers and cyber-criminals, thanks to the data breach. This biggest-ever heist of personal information is a gift that will provide them with spam, phishing, and other goodies for years to come. There is almost ce...

• Report Raises Concerns About Skype Security

  For the 28 million Skype users online at the time of writing, and for the 124 million regular users Skype Ltd. reported in its SEC filing of March 4, 2011, security of VoIP (voice over IP) communication and associated file sending is a reasonable assumpti...

• Hackers Strike at Basic Internet Security

  Is it just me, or is Internet security itself undergoing a hacker siege? The virtual ink was still wet on my blog last week about Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) when news broke that a sophisticated cyber-attack had been mounted against RSA Security I...