Stories about: Global Integrity

Bibliofind, the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary for buyers and sellers of used and hard-to-find books, last week disclosed that 98,000 customer credit card numbers it stored in its servers were repeatedly stolen between last October and this February.

Even with strong security, e-business risk is a fact of life in today's interconnected business world. But the fundamental problem with managing this new form of business risk, say IT managers, is that there are no metrics and no standards to measure the level of risk.

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At the first Global InfoSec Summit in Washington on Monday, a lot of attention was focused on hackers and crackers and whether laws -- worldwide -- were strong enough to do anything about them. But not everyone at the conference blamed the obvious bad guys.

Spending more for computer security alone won't protect your network from hackers and cybersaboteurs, according to a recent survey published in Information Security magazine. While the money US companies are spending for security products and services is up 188 per cent over the last two years, so are cyberattacks: eight out of 10 companies have been hit this year in the US, the survey said.