Items Tagged with "Security Awareness"
FBI Guidance on Avoiding Internet-Based Fraud
May 21, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
Listed below are tips to protect your business, yourself and your family from various forms of Internet fraud. For information on the most common complaints and scams, see the annual reports of the Internet Crime Complaint Center a partnership of the FBI and the NWCCC...
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Logging: Opening Pandora's Box - Part 4 - Awareness
May 21, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Awareness is the ability to know, understand and react to various types of events in near-real-time in order to defend your enterprise. Whether you're defending it from performance failures, functionality failures, or security failures is dependent on the group you work in...
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Spring Cleaning Your PC
May 19, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
If your PC is bogged down with software and your desktop is jammed with icons and documents, then your PC is next to useless as a productivity tool. Even scarier is you have lost track of your files have sensitive information exposed. Follow these tips for a cleaner, faster machine...
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On Proper System Hardening
May 16, 2012
When a system or device has been properly hardened, all unnecessary bells and whistles are turned off, disabled, or simply ripped out, leaving only the bare minimum needed to run the service. This creates a much smaller surface area to attack...
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Who Are You Preaching to Anyway?
May 16, 2012 Added by:Neira Jones
Hard core security conferences continue to happen and continue to be successful, and long may it continue. We still need the techies to make sure we have the right tech to support the people and processes in our businesses. We also need the techies to try and keep ahead of the bad guys...
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IC3: 2011 Internet Crime Report
May 15, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
IC3 represents a perfect example of how technological services could help in the prevention and analysis of criminal activities, and highlights that the real weapon against Internet crime is awareness and information sharing...
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FBI Guidance of Combating the Insider Threat
May 15, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
The thief who is harder to detect and who could cause the most damage is the insider — the employee with legitimate access. They may steal solely for personal gain or be a “spy”—someone who is stealing company information or products in order to benefit another organization or country...
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Treat Passwords Like Cash
May 15, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
Every Web site and business application has a different algorithm and password policy. For users, who need to maintain strong passwords using 25 different policies on 25 different systems sites, it’s impossible to maintain a strong password policy without making some compromises...
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Twitter Hack! Five Ways to Avoid Being a Victim of Phishing
May 13, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
Twitter is downplaying a security breach that exposed tens of thousands of user emails and passwords. The compromised Twitter accounts could have been the result of phishing attacks. Whenever you read about such breaches, it is always a good idea to change your password...
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Five Concerns Surrounding Pinterest
May 10, 2012 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
At the current time, there are no privacy or security settings similar to Facebook or Google Plus, and boards cannot be made private, similar to customized Facebook lists or customized Google Plus circles. The bottom line is that anyone with Internet access can view your boards...
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Aren’t all Security Professionals Evangelists?
May 09, 2012 Added by:Andrew Weidenhamer
I often wonder is Evangelist the right title for some individuals. Considering that the main audience for a “Security Evangelist” is the security community, I’m not entirely sure how much conversion is actually happening as we all understand the importance of security...
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It's Summer Blockbuster Season Again - Time to get Prepared
May 08, 2012 Added by:Lee Munson
One of the most used tricks that black hat hackers use during this time of year is to piggyback off of the advertising of big budget movies. There are a lot of ways that you can leverage attacks with this type of advertising and believe me they use all of them...
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The CERT Guide to Insider Threats
May 07, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
While there are many books on important security topics such as firewalls, encryption, identity management and more, The CERT Guide to Insider Threats is the one of the first to formally tackle the devastating problem of trusted insiders who misappropriate data...
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Phishing with PDF's and Why it Works
May 03, 2012 Added by:Chris Murrey
During many penetration tests the need to social engineer a target may be required. Let’s talk about something that completely relies on the user being conned into following the attackers instructions. The scenario is simple send the user a PDF form and have them submit the form...
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On the Growth of Identity Theft
May 01, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
It is clear that criminal organizations are devoting substantial resources in this sector. An increasing component of organized crime is specializing in this kind of activity characterized by high profits and low risks compared to traditional criminal activities...
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Experts Talk Security Awareness: Black Hat EU 2012 Finale
April 30, 2012
At Black Hat Europe 2012, we asked the experts for their views on the importance of user security awareness training and what the common issues are with such initiatives. Javvad's coverage of Black Hat Europe courtesy of Infosec Island and NETpeas...
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December 24, 2011The latest version of Infosec Island is now available. There are more content options and more ways to connect and interact with your peers.
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