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IRISSCERT, (the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service) will be holding its annual conference on Cyber Crime in the D4 Berkley Hotel on November the 18th. The event looks to be very interesting especially as attendance will be free. This all day conference will focus on providing you with an overview of the current cyber threats [...]
The SiliconRepublic.Com and RTE both report today that the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation is investigating a number of incidents where businesses in the west and midlands of Ireland have been targeted by online criminals. Apparently the criminals have accessed the computer systems of the affected businesses and encrypted important business information belonging to those businesses thereby making [...]
In life timing is everything and events often seem to conspire with each other. A few days after my poston Ireland not having a cyber security strategy the Department of Communications have issued a Request For Tenderfor the development of a national cyber security strategy. Lets hope that however wins that contract develops a strategy [...]
Castlecops the volunteer website set up to help fight against internet fraud and scams has sadly closed its doors. Despite being the targets of many DDOS attacks, Castlecops managed to keep up and running and be a thorn in the side of cyber criminals. However, it looks like the volunteer group has finally had to [...]
While not yet published, some of the results from the 2007 Irish Crime Survey were revealed in the SiliconRepublic.com. The survey was compiled by the Irish chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and University College Dublin’s Centre for Cybercrime Investigation. The survey looks at attacks and intrusions at both public and private organisations [...]
Apparently the EU is proposing an Internet crime hotline so people can report online crimes to Europol. The Irish Justice Minister, Dermot Ahern, supports the move. While I support any moves to make the lifes of cyber criminals more difficult I do find it frustrating that our own government does not see fit to set [...]
The Estonian Government has released a strategy paperon enhancing cyber security. This is an interesting read as we can all learn from the lessons of the cyber attacks against Estonia last year. The report makes for interesting reading and yet it is still sad to see that governments and many organisations only take computer security [...]
Eleven people have been charged in connection with a major hacking ring that allegedly compromised over 40 million credit card records at TJX Corporation, which also runs the TK Maxx stores here in Ireland. Three Americans are amongst those arrested with two other individuals held in Turkey and Germany. The remaining six people are still [...]
For those of us working in the field of information security the job can sometimes be very negative in its outlook. We are viewed as people who stop things. We stop the hackers, we stop the viruses, we stop people having fun by blocking their favourite Internet sites and we sometimes get to stop projects [...]
As announced earlier the 4th Global Security Week security awareness event was launched earlier this week. The theme for this year is “Cybercrime – Don’t become a victim” and we need your help, especially if you have an artistic flair. We are running a competition where you get to design the logo for this year’s [...]