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Cybercrooks Targeting Small Business Usage of Online Banking

Doug McLean — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:39:22 +0000

One good way to tell if a topic has become mainstream is to monitor USA Today. So I wasn’t terribly surprised when I found the lead in the paper’s Money section on New Years Day to be focused on the latest trend…

One More Place to NOT Leave Personal Information

Doug McLean — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:59:39 +0000

The decline in the newspaper business has already killed some major publications, but for some reason has not (yet) killed off the category of publications known simply as “Advertisers.” These are the free publications that typically carry three to four…

Spam Penalties and Growth

Doug McLean — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:52:21 +0000

Most readers of this blog are aware of the unholy alliance between the world’s spammers and cybercriminals. This partnership is based upon the spammer’s ability to present scams to millions of innocent users on behalf of those the crooks that…

Of Mafias, Macs, & Mules

Doug McLean — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:17:41 +0000

It’s been more than a month since my last posting and it’s been surprisingly quiet on the cybercrime front since the Albert Gonzalez plea deal was announced. There have been a few new stories like this one in Network World summarizing…

Cybercriminal of the Century?

Doug McLean — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:56:47 +0000

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Readers of this blog know that I’ve been following the case against Albert Gonzalez, the alleged mastermind behind the TJX breach. Last Monday came the shocking news that the Justice Department has concluded that Gonzalez also led…

Einstein III

Doug McLean — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:10:02 +0000

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The Washington Post broke an interesting story just before the Independence Day holiday about the issues the National Security Agency (NSA) has encountered in deploying their latest cyberdefense system. The Post requires a log-in to view the story,…

Black Hat Illuminates Russian Cybercrime Gangs

Doug McLean — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:57:38 +0000

Most of the news coming out of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas focused on the new attack on AES and the bootkit attack on the TrueCrypt full disk encryption product. While these are certainly compelling pieces of research, I…

Top Five Favorite Cybercrime Blogs

Doug McLean — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:49:40 +0000

I’ve been reviewing some of the other blogs covering cybercrime and want to share with you five that I’ve found most interesting.

Kenyantykoon’s Blog on African Cybercrime: A very good country-by-country summary of one of the hot beds of cybercrime.

Cybercrime and Doing…

Heartland Demonstrating Just How Costly Data Breach Can Be

Doug McLean — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:42:18 +0000

We spend a lot of space on our blogs talking about the hard and soft costs of data breaches. PGP Corporation also sponsors the annual Ponemon surveys of this topic. I don’t tend to focus on it in my blog because I…

Combatting Cyber-terrorism Requires We Play Defense AND Offense

Doug McLean — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:12:41 +0000

There have been a number of calls lately for the creation of an agency like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) focused on the Internet. The theory is that by integrating the currently fragmented cyber-security efforts of the Departments of Defense,…