Fahmida Y. Rashid

Banks and other enterprises aren’t the only organizations worrying about former employees stealing or destroying data when they leave the company. A former employee for the whistleblower site WikiLeaks said he “shredded” documents when he left the company earlier this year. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a sometime spokesperson for WikiLeaks in Germany, destroyed more than 3,500 documents […]

After the recent crackdown around the world on companies allegedly distributing scareware programs, the fake security business seems to be in full retreat, according to a recent report. The number of new fake antivirus, scareware and other rogue software incidents have declined 60 percent since June, Alvin Estevez, CEO of Enigma Software said Aug. 18. […]

It’s becoming quite a routine event with the Anonymous hacker’s group welcoming Mondays with a fresh data dump of personal information belonging to innocent people. This time, the targeted Website was myBART.org, the trip planning and services portal for the San Francisco region’s Bay Area Rapid Transit. Anonymous supposedly breached the site using a SQL […]

Internet users are overly complacent about posting personal or potentially sensitive data online, providing cyber-criminals with a wealth of information that could be used for identity theft or hijacking accounts, according to a recent BullGuard survey. In a survey of 2,000 British Internet users, approximately 42 percent posted their date of birth and 18 percent […]

Facebook has a simple tip for its users to stay safe online: “Friend” only people you know. In a 13-page guide titled “Own Your Space,” Facebook advised users on how to secure their accounts on the social networking site and provided some general tips on computer security. The tips explain some of the advanced security […]

Kevin Mitnick, one of the individuals included in eWEEK’s Top Hackers slideshow, appeared on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report on Aug. 18. Mitnick, on a press tour for his book, “Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker,” appeared on the show for an interview with the host, Stephen Colbert. Mitnick spent […]

While cyber-attackers can probe Websites to find application flaws and network holes, employees at many financial institutions are just as vulnerable to social engineering tricks. Why hack a Website when all it takes is a phone call to get into a customer bank account? That is the question Jim Stickley, CTO of TraceSecurity asks when […]

Recognizing that security is dynamic and protection needs can change based on context, AirPatrol unveiled ZoneDefense, a mobile device monitoring platform that takes into account where the device is located and what is happening around it. With ZoneDefense, enterprises can detect any mobile device on its premises and track the location, AirPatrol said Aug. 16. […]

in a report based on four years of Web data, Google researchers found that attackers are deploying highly specialized evasion and obfuscation techniques to stay one step ahead of the defenders. In “Trends in Circumventing Web-Malware Detection,” Google analyzed roughly 160 million pages on 8 million Websites and concluded that the bad guys are adapting […]

The Federal Trade Commission’s fining of a mobile-application developer for collecting children’s personal information without parental consent sends a strong message to other developers that the agency would closely monitor the mobile software market to protect consumers. The mobile application from Broken Thumbs Apps violated COPPA (the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) because personal information […]