Stories about: Internet Security Advisors Group

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Dear Facebook, act like a grown-up about security 24 February, 2010 05:51

Dear Facebook, I appreciate your service. I really do.
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Drone incident serves up data encryption lesson 19 December, 2009 05:02

The disclosure that Iraqi insurgents were able to intercept live video feeds from U.S. drones has focused the spotlight on a familiar IT security issue: data encryption.
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Alleged kingpin of data heists was a computer addict, lawyer says 21 August, 2009 06:06

Albert Gonzalez, the man described by federal authorities as the kingpin of a gang responsible for stealing more than 130 million payment cards, is a computer addict constantly looking for ways to challenge his abilities, according to his lawyer.
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FAQ: Why Obama may give up his BlackBerry 08 December, 2008 09:14

Could Barack Obama ever expect to continue using his BlackBerry once he officially becomes president?
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Largest public power grid at cyber risk, US feds say 22 May, 2008 08:28

The network controlling the US's largest public electric company could be taken down by cyber-hackers because it fails to take basic best-practice security measures, a federal report says.
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How to spot -- and stop -- a spy 15 April, 2008 10:32

Corporations are woefully unprepared to counter attempts at corporate espionage, say experts who perform vulnerability assessments designed to uncover security weaknesses. US corporations lose as much as US$300 billion a year to hacking, cracking, physical security breaches and other criminal activity, according to Ira Winkler, author of Spies Among Us (Wiley, 2005) and president of the Internet Security Advisors Group, which performs espionage simulations and provides other services.
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Privacy predicament 11 September, 2006 10:36

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange flows 300 million stock quotes per day over an electronic trading system at rates that climb as high as 20,000 quotes per second during peak periods. The systems also churns out extremely sensitive trading reports packed with proprietary customer information that must be stringently guarded from outside attacks and unauthorized internal access.
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Qualcomm Chairman's Laptop Theft Provides Lessons 21 September, 2000 12:01

Security experts said last weekend's theft of a laptop computer belonging to the chairman of wireless communications vendor Qualcomm provides a vivid example of why companies should use technologies such as encryption and user authentication to protect sensitive data stored on mobile devices.
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Loophole Detected in Critical Path Web Mail 26 August, 2000 12:01

Web-based e-mail services from Critical Path Inc. were, until Thursday night, vulnerable to malicious hackers who could gain access to accounts, where they could read, write and delete messages as long as the user was logged on.
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Third Suspect Identified in Bloomberg Case 19 August, 2000 12:01

The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan has unsealed a third complaint in the case of computer crackers from Kazakhstan who allegedly tried to extort US$200,000 from financial and news impresario Michael Bloomberg in exchange for not exploiting security holes in his Web site.
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Napster Fans Crack Website 18 August, 2000 12:01

Several sites around the world were reportedly broken into and changed Tuesday by one or more people claiming to be calling attention to the fight between the music industry and the digital music-swapping Web site Napster Inc. in Redwood City, Calif.