General security

General security

A social engineering assessment is a very valuable tool in understanding the security exposure of most organizations. Since human beings tend to be the weake

General security

From an organizational point of view, the concept of resilience is basically the same as the concept of business continuity: An organization’s ability to rea

General security

Most adults in the developed world have bank accounts and credit cards. Most of us use debit cards and credit cards at the cash registers of our favorite ret

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Introduction I receive many questions from people who don't work in the security field about the use of stolen credit card data in the cyber-crime ecosystem,

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Data Held Hostage In the digital age, data has incredible value. Not only for business purposes, but also for criminal intent. It draws the interest of cyber

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Passwords have been part of IT since long before the age of the desktop PC. However, now more than ever, systems administrators need to re-examine their pass

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Introduction Germany's Der Spiegel has published a couple of disturbing articles on the NSA surveillance activities. The media agency has focused its article

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The year 2014 will be a year of continued change in the ICT security world. It will be a year in which some very fundamental, unfinished business that origin

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Introduction It's the holidays, a key time for cybercrime that exploits the bad habits of unaware internet users. Attackers can defraud and monetize their ac

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(or "Why PCI-DSS-Compliant Passwords Aren't Enough" or "PCI-DSS-Compliant Password Analysis Reveals One-Quarter Still Trivially Compromisable") Thanks t