The traditional method of funding a street-gang criminal enterprise through the selling of drugs or guns is now changing to a new form of revenue generation – cyber-crime. The reason for the paradigm shift is quite simple, the ability to make a large amount of money in an easy manner are simply outweighed by the chances […]
Security experts from McAfee announced tonight that the United Nations and 72 other organizations were among those who were infiltrated by a cyber-attack – the largest data breach to date. According to Reuters, the hackers broke into the computer system of the U.N. Secretariat in Geneva in 2008, and were subsequently able to comb through terabytes […]
This past weekend it was reported that the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS, and Lockheed-Martin had their networks attacked by cyber-criminals. The Wall Street Journal highlighted today two different stories about how government and private organizations are responding to the daily deluge of cyber-attacks within their respective sectors. The first story deals with how the […]