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Category Archives: Cybercrime
Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope
April 2, 2008 – 6:00 am
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At this point in time most companies have done at least a reasonable job of keeping the bad guys out. They probably have a firewall, Anti-Virus, URL filtering and some sort of centralization and viewing capability, whether home grown scripts or a commercial product. Many also have implemented…
Save The Whales
March 25, 2008 – 6:00 am
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By now we all familiar with Phishing, which is the attempt to extract valuable information from an unsuspecting user via some form of social engineering which is usually done via E-Mail but can also be done via telephone (called Vishing.)
In the case of an individual, the target is usually…
French Trader Jerome Kerviel Spoofed Emails to Legitimize Fake Transactions
January 30, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Le Monde reports that, among other things, the French Trader spoofed emails to trick co-workers into believing his trades were legitimate. The english is a bit broken — for instance mall is email — but here is the translation from Babelfish:
Remain that the bank is questioned and asks…
Spiteful Employee destroys $2.5 Million worth of data, data recovered
January 25, 2008 – 4:23 pm
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A CNN video report: an employee believed she was to be fired and deleted the firm’s 7 years worth of data valued at $2.5 million dollars. The data was forensically recovered in full.
The cop had it correct and simple: backup your data.
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Slashdot Post On Security Ethics Demonstrates Professional Naiveness