insider threat
Programmer steals US government software source code
A Chinese computer programmer has been arrested in New York for having allegedly copied and stolen the source code of software developed by the US Treasury Department, …
Preventing Good People From Doing Bad Things
As the number of known security breaches seemingly rises exponentially with every passing day, business managers and the general public are becoming increasingly aware of a …
Hacks of Chinese sites either inside jobs or faked
Last week’s news that hacks of a number of high-profile sites resulted in the compromise of personal and financial information of over 100 million Chinese Internet users …
A new perspective on the insider threat
When talking about the insider threat, the first that comes to mind to many (if not all) information security professionals is the threat posed by rogue insiders that …
The risks of unauthorized access
HP unveiled new global research that reports increased threats to sensitive and confidential workplace data are created by a lack of control and oversight of privileged users, …
Hiding messages in VoIP packets
A group of researchers from the Institute of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University of Technology have devised a relatively simple way of hiding information within VoIP …
Motorola attempted to crush competitor via “Chinese spy ring” allegations
Four years ago a software engineer that worked for Motorola was arrested by U.S. Customs agents as she was trying to board a plane heading for China. Hanjuan Jin was carrying …
Information theft still a serious threat to global business
Fraud remains predominantly an inside job, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report. The study shows that 60 percent of frauds are committed by insiders, up from 55 …
Akamai insider pleads guilty to foreign economic espionage
A former Akamai employee has been accused of and has pleaded guilty to having passed on confidential information regarding the company to a man he believed was a Israeli …
Employee-owned mobile devices are riskiest
More than half of information technology leaders in the US believe that any employee-owned mobile device poses a greater risk to the enterprise than mobile devices supplied by …
Insider threats plague data managers
Financial services organizations struggle with human error, abuse of privileges more than most. Application Security, Unisphere Research, and the International Sybase Users …
External cyber security risks to surpass insider threats
57 percent of global C-level executives agree that in the next one-to-three years, external threats such as cyber-criminals will become a greater security risk than insider …
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