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The number of consumer records sold to a data broker by a former Certegy Check Services database administrator is actually 8.5 million, about 6 million more than originally reported. Seattle police have charged a former Boeing employee with 16 counts of computer trespass for the alleged theft of 320,000 files, as well as leaking them to a Seattle-area daily newspaper. Oracle announced plans to deliver 46 patches on Tuesday to repair a number of vulnerabilities in its database and associated products. Few can imagine going back to a world without tools for mobility. The ability to access and process digital information with laptops and other handheld devices has forever changed our lives. In a textbook case of insider misuse of password access, the senior class president of a Florida high school was arrested this week and charged with a felony for grade-tampering. Researchers have pointed their fingers at insiders as the main security bugaboos facing enterprises. Microsoft’s new Vista operating system has placed more emphasis on security than any previous version of Windows. An unhappy systems administrator who may want to teach a seemingly unappreciative company a lesson. An employee who is passed over for a promotion or a raise. An IT manager who is disappointed by a bonus. A technically savvy database administrator willing to change information in the Oracle Financial Suite for a CEO whose future is riding on the next stock analyst's recommendation. A new survey has found that more than half of enterprises believe that the biggest threat to their sensitive information is through the action of malicious or negligent insiders—be they employees, outsourced workers or others working with trusted partners. The Tenable Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS) is a most interesting product. It is truly passive in that it does not perform active scans of any kind. It is, simply, a very smart sniffer. The product depends for its usefulness on the way that it collects and reports vulnerability data. Since the PVS is always listening, it constantly collects information from the normal data flows on the network. This is superior to active scanners in two important ways. A MoneyGram International server has been breached, allowing cybercrooks access to the personal information of nearly 80,000 people. Just as bacteria evolve around the technological barriers we put in their place, so too do the tactics and strategies employed by computer attackers. When a security measure is put in place, our enemies immediately set out to exploit its weakness. When they are repelled, they adapt their tactics and strategies, regroup and come back yet again. While most major security vendors worked out the kinks in their Windows Vista-compatible offerings this week, some niche vendors were taking advantage of the corporate launch to unveil new security solutions. Deloitte's corporate logo has a very deliberate green full stop at the end. It suggests that what the company offers is backed up by solid expertise and decades of experience and thought. Potential clients need look no further. This is the complete package. End of story.
More than ever before, businesses are struggling to address the information protection requirements driven by a host of internal and external compliance mandates. The mobile, wireless world in which we now live has created a shift in the focus of venture capital investments in security technology. Today's investors tend to target technology that directly protects people and information, a marked change from a few years ago when the focus was the protection of corporate computer systems as a whole. Corporations attacked by cybercriminals lost an average of $3 million per case, according to a study of prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Justice over the past seven years. Nearly 50 security practitioners met in May in Hilton Head Island, S.C. for another successful SC Forum event — the first of two forums this year. What do you like most about your job? The constant challenge and learning keeps me going. Every day I need to investigate a new threat, new product or evaluate a new process. I love that I'm never looking at the same thing, and that my challenges always change. A 26-year-old man has been arrested in Finland after he allegedly hacked into an online bank account and stole €200,000 ($244,000) from his company.