Everyone seems to be jumping on the Royal Wedding bandwagon including hackers who are using it as a revenue generating opportunity. A poll conducted by Imperva – the leader in data security, amongst visitors to this year’s Infosecurity Europe reveals a 38 percent of security professionals have witnessed the nuptials being used for malvertising, 34 percent have seen wedding related spam and 20 percent incidents of search engine poisoning.
Vigilance can authoritatively reveal that Garrison Sergeant Major William Mott OBE, the senior Warrant Officer of the British Army, and the man responsible for some of the most spectacular State ceremonial over the last decade, has been presented with an historic Warrant Officers’ badge of rank in time for the Royal Wedding on 29 April.
Amit Klein, noted malware researcher and CTO of Trusteer the leading provider of secure web access services, has today confirmed he will be sharing his insight and knowledge during a keynote speaker seminar at AusCERT2011 on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 (9am). The use of mobile devices for authenticating banking transactions and payments, while still in its infancy, is poised to take off in popularity. However the snag is criminals have figured out how to take control of mobile handsets and hijack communications coming from financial institutions. Amit plans to educate visitors to AusCERT2011 of the criminals’ game plan and arm them with tactics to effectively fight back.
Phil Lieberman, CEO and Founder of Lieberman Software is an IT security expert with over 30 years programming experience and in this short opinion piece he gives his viewpoint on the Sony PSN hack and how to protect yourself from similar breaches.
“Taking a baseball bat to a hornet’s nest is never an advisable strategy. Sony’s strategy in defending its intellectual property was heavy handed and has triggered the “nuclear option” with those that it engaged. Perhaps Sony could learn a few lessons from Microsoft in how it has handled XBOX 360 and Kinect intellectual property.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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