A US court has sentenced a man to three years in jail for selling more than $1m worth of pirated software on eBay.
RSA Europe: Information warfare is an overused term
Cyberwarfare and information warfare are overused terms for what could be classified as cybervandalism or cybercrime, said Ira Winkler, CISSP at ISAG, at RSA Europe in London on 22 October.
RSA Europe: Barings Bank collapse avoidable if controls were in place
The collapse of the UK Barings Bank in 1995 could have been avoided if proper controls and systems had been in place, Nick Leeson, the guy that brought down the Barings Bank told the audience at the RSA Conference Europe on 22 October.
RSA Europe: We need revocable personal data says ISF president
Speaking at the RSA Europe conference in London this week, ISF president Professor Howard Schmidt said that there is now a need for people to be able to revoke the personal data they present for identification and credit-worthiness to financial institu…
Rapid7 acquires Metasploit open source project
Rapid7, the vulnerability management security specialist, has acquired Metasploit, the ongoing open source security project that developed the Metasploit Framework. The move is billed as allowing Rapid7 to enhance its penetration testing technologies.
RSA Europe: Identity theft is too easy and can even be automated says IT security expert
The realities of identity theft and the modus operandi of cybercriminals were explained to delegates at this week’s RSA Security conference in London by Brian Honan, a principal security consultant with BH Consulting of Ireland.
RSA Europe: Two-factor authentication is worth nothing, says executive director, EEMA
At the RSA Europe conference, 20 October 2009, in a session titled ‘Governments face up to the cyber security challenge’, Roger Dean, executive director of EEMA, declared two-factor authentication “not worth anything anymore”.
BitDefender readies for Windows 7 release to consumers
Although business users have had copies of Windows 7 on their machines for a short while now, this Thursday will see the first copies of the new Microsoft operating system released to consumers. And BitDefender says it is ready, as its 2010 range of IT…
Symantec says internet users plagued by fake anti-virus software
Research just published by Symantec claims to show that users are increasingly being fooled into installing fake anti-virus software – aka scamware – onto their machines.
Find out how to implement least-privilege security management for Linux and UNIX
A least-privilege security model has its merits, but it can be challenging to implement in for example Linux and UNIX environments where administrators often share passwords to root- or other superuser accounts. Find out how to implement least-privileg…