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Fortune 500 Interview: Scotiabank’s Greg Thompson talks hackers, cyber terrorists, hacktivists and more

Greg Thompson has his work cut out for him as <a href=”http://www.scotiabank.com/gls/en/index.html#about”>Scotiabank</a>’s highest level security professional. Thompson, vice president of enterprise security services at the

May 16, 2013 General Security
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E -Money Fraud

1. Introduction Electronic money (e-money) is the digital equivalent of cash that is stored on an electronic device or remotely at a server. It is

May 09, 2013 General Security
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Gauss: Between technology and politics

Introduction The purpose of this work is to present the reader research of the Gauss malware platform as one of the ultimate nation-state cyber exploitation

May 07, 2013 General Security
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How to profit illegally from Bitcoin … cybercrime and much more

Introduction The interest in Bitcoin, one of the most popular currency schemas is high, financial world, small savers, merchants and of course, cyber-criminals observing with

May 03, 2013 General Security
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GhostNet – Part II

Behind the GhostNet notion stands an entire international worldwide network of infected computers belonging to places having high political, economic, media, or emblematic importance. One

April 29, 2013 General Security
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Botnets and Cybercrime – Botnets hunting – Part 3

Botnets and cybercrime – Introduction can be found here Botnets, how do they work? Architectures and case studies – Part 2 can be found here

April 25, 2013 General Security
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Phishing Techniques: Similarities, Differences, and Trends: Part III: Vishing

For Part I, which discusses Mass Phishing and which sets the objects of examination in this paper, please check here. For Part II, which discusses

April 25, 2013 General Security
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GhostNet – Part I

Introduction Several years after the revelation of GhostNet, a massive case of cyber exploitation directed mostly against the Tibetan community, in terms of originality, this

April 24, 2013 General Security
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Botnets, how do they work? Architectures and case studies – Part 2

In the first part of this of this mini-series on the botnet cyber threat, we have shown the current scenario and the technological evolution in

April 22, 2013 General Security
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Phishing and Social Engineering Techniques

Internet usage is growing dramatically, but the vast majority of internet users don’t have any security backgrounds. Neither do a large majority of companies care

April 18, 2013 General Security
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Before you move to the cloud

What is the cloud, anyways? The term is new, but concept is not. Throughout the history of computing, IT organizations have been using their own

April 15, 2013 General Security
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Security Awareness – Judge the Impact to Justify the Effort

Security awareness is a top priority for most security officers. But, making it measurable for business analysis can be hard work. In this piece, I

April 11, 2013 General Security
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Botnets and cybercrime – Introduction

Preface One of the most insidious cyber threats for security community is represented by diffusion of botnets, networks of infected computers (bots or zombies) managed

April 08, 2013 General Security
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A Security Officer’s Playbook

I’ve been writing some pieces for InfoSec Review about my past work in information security management and assurance within the British government. Although working in

April 03, 2013 General Security
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“Frictionless Sharing”: Browser History Leaked into the Cloud

I don’t want this article to be alarming, and its purpose is not to make you deactivate / delete your Facebook account or make you

March 29, 2013 General Security
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TeamSpy, Miniduke, Red October, and Flame: Analyzing Principal Cyber Espionage Campaigns

Even a layman would notice that cyberspace is in full storm; different entities are increasing malicious activities pursuing various purposes, and cyber espionage is considered

March 26, 2013 General Security
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Unit 61398: Chinese Cyber-Espionage and the Advanced Persistent Threat

In the world of computer security, the concept of an “Advanced Persistant Threat” has garnered a great deal of publicity recently. Commonly referred to by

March 26, 2013 General Security
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Visual Studio 2010 Basics

Introduction This article will demonstrate the development life cycle for various .NET framework applications,for instance, executables, console applications,Windows Forms, etc., and how to build them

March 25, 2013 General Security
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The Cyber Exploitation Life Cycle

Introduction For the purposes of this article, the term “cyber exploitation” will represent all the subversive activities that include interstate “breaking and entering” somebody else’s

March 22, 2013 General Security
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What is behind that QR code?

With the huge popularity in mobile devices like the smartphone and tablets, two dimensional barcodes, or the so-called QR codes are beloved by marketers. QR

March 21, 2013 General Security
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