Why profit-driven iPad exploits are inevitable
February 26, 2011
One of the most bedeviling conundrums corporate IT managers face today is how to deal with the security of mobile devices. The topic was addressed at the Mobile Security Symposium in SF on Feb. 14
There are more questions than answers, at this point, about how all of this will play out in the months ahead.
In this LastWatchdog guest post,  Laura Mather,  founder and VP of Product at SilverTail Systems, …More
Keeping kids safe on line requires collaborative community efforts
February 24, 2011
Keeping kids safe online encompasses a vast range of issues–cyberbullying, sexting, inappropriate contact, and exposure to malware. It requires a collaborative community effort among parents, teachers, law enforcement and security experts to keep kids safe on the Internet.
Lynette Owens, director of Trend Micro’s corporate outreach programs, asserts that education on good online citizenship needs to start at home, but should be reinforced in schools and receive assistance …More
Google rescinds request for childrens’ sensitive data
February 23, 2011
Launch of Doodle 4 Google
Google has rescinded its requirement for parents to divulge part of their childrens’ Social Security number, along with other Personally Identifiable Information, in order to participate in its Doodle-4-Google contest.
The search giant has drawn criticism from security and privacy advocates who point out how easy it is to calculate a fairly accurate statistical guess about a person’s identity …More
Carbon registries heist: part digital con-game, part digital burglary
February 22, 2011
By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY, p.6A, 22 Feb. 2011
An Eastern European cybergang has perfected an emerging form of digital theft to steal $50 million from Europe’s carbon registries.
Elite cybergangs are gaining deep access to corporate networks and carrying out Ocean’s 11-like capers that are equal parts digital con game and digital burglary.
Another such gang, for instance, gained recent media attention for its deep access to Nasdaq’s Directors …More
Smartphones are being used to photograph your payment cards
February 18, 2011
Call it over-the-shoulder data theft. It happened to Donald Malloy on a recent business trip to Las Vegas.
Malloy, business development manager for NagraID Security, used his American Express card to buy some water and snacks at a Las Vegas convenience outlet. The next day he got a phone call from AmEx advising him that someone used his card …More
How kidnappers and assassins utilize smartphones, Google and Facebook
February 17, 2011
Criminals are using smartphones, Google and Facebook as tools to instantly profile well-to-do travelers for random kidnappings — and they are doing it more often and for much lower ransom amounts than you might think.
This insight comes from Michael Guidry, founder and CEO of The Guidry Group, which provides full-service security for 22 billionaires. Here Guidry”s chilling account of a kidnapping and murder that occurred less than …More
US Chamber, Bank of America tied to disinformation soap opera
February 13, 2011
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce — like the Bank of America — is scrambling to distance itself from a cache of stolen e-mails that continue to disgorge stunning details of how high-stakes, corporate-backed disinformation campaigns get birthed.
The chamber and BofA are embroiled in mirror-image controversies stemming directly from the spontaneous hack last Sunday of HBGary Federal, a digital intelligence firm. The hack was pulled off by the …More
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