The Global Cyber War from MentalWardPublishing.com presented free by McGuinnessPublishing.com
“The industry-accepted standard for confirming someone is who they say they are and that they control a domain is that ‘the CA takes reasonable measures to verify,’ which is very ambiguous at best and meaningless at worst,” wrote world-renowned security expert Kurt Seifried in an article on SSL security keys published in the May 2010 [...] Read more »
FBI figures show huge rise in online miscreantage
US net crime loss complaints almost doubled in value from $265m in 2008 to reach $560m last year, according to official figures.
An annual report of the FBI-backed Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), published on Friday, reports that the unit handled 336,655 complaints in 2009, a 22.3 percent increase [...] Read more »
* Watch out for “phishy” emails. The most common form of phishing is emails pretending to be from a legitimate retailer, bank, organization, or government agency. The sender asks to “confirm” your personal information for some made-up reason: your account is about to be closed, an order for something has been placed in your name, [...] Read more »
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