Cyber Crime Seminar in Dublin as Part of Global Security Week
Global Security Week, in conjunction with BH Consulting and VigiTrust , is pleased to announce a seminar on the theme of “Cyber Crime – Don’t Become a Victim” to be held on the 10th of September 2008. The theme this year is intended to highlight how businesses and individuals can become victims of Cyber Crime and […]
Dilbert Does Security Patches
Trust Dilbert to point out the problems many of us have with applying security patches;
CyberWar Part of Georgian and Russian Conflict
Last year Estonia suffered a series of severe Distributed Denial of Service attacks which crippled its Internet infrastructure and made many government and press websites unavailable. Estonia initially claimed that Russia was behind these attacks and they were subsequently dubbed as “the first Cyberwar”. Later these accusations were retracted as there was no real evidence to prove […]
Criminals Break Into Irish Online Retailer
The Irish Examiner broke the news this morning that an Irish online retailer’s computer security was breached by criminals who managed to compromise an undisclosed number of credit card details belonging to Irish customers. The breach was apparently discovered after the criminals tried to test if the cards were active by making small online purchases […]
Details of TJX Hacks Emerge
Thanks to Gary Warner more details of how criminals hacked into the TJX network have come to light. It makes very interesting reading.
More Coverage of The TJX Cybercrime Ring Bust
I was interviewed this morning on the Loose Talk show on LMFM Radio to discuss the recent chargesagainst eleven individuals for hacking into TJX’s networks and stealing over 40 million credit card details. The focus of the chat was on wireless networking and why it is so important to ensure it is set up securely. […]
11 Charged in US with Cyber Crime
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 […]
Cyber Crime and Small Businesses in Ireland
The Small Firms Association released their 6th annual crime survey which focuses on how crime impacts on small businesses in Ireland. An interesting point in the press release highlights that the companies surveyed reported an increase in online crime with the average cost on an incident being €2,250 and it appears the largest cost was […]
CAG Loses Laptop with Confidential Information
Just as I finished posting about the serious security issues identified in the Department of Family and Social Affairs I read about the government’s auditing body, the Comptroller and Audit General, losing a laptop containing sensitive information about staff in a government department and details on companies recieving grant aid from the government. Details are […]
More on the DNS Vulnerability
Since my post on this issue yesterday and also Andy Whelan’s post to the ISSA Ireland’s newslist, a number of people have come back to me offline with regards to the current status within the Irish Internet space. It seems that a number of ISPs, 16 apparently, have not yet patched their DNS servers. But the biggest challenge […]