Alan Paller, research director at the respected SANS Institute, has indicated that during the coming year attackers are increasingly likely to target popular, trusted websites where users have an expectation of effective security.
This is just one of the major threats identified by a team of cyber security specialists who were asked by the SANS Institute to compile a list of the 10 most dangerous threats during 2008, defined as those they believed were likely to cause the most substantial damage.
The financial services industry is still reeling from the revelation that a rogue trader, Jerome Kerviel, has been responsible for losses of more than $7bn at the French bank Société Générale.
The $7bn deficit, which represents the largest individual loss in banking history, was caused by the trader betting on the European stock market’s rise. This started in 2005 and everything went well until 2008 when the stock market started its decline.
News that the chairman of Barclays Bank has become the latest victim of identity theft has shown that no-one is exempt from financial fraud. In what must surely be one of the most embarrassing cases of identity theft to date, Marcus Agius, the chairman of UK high-street banking giant Barclays, has had £10,000 stolen from his Barclays personal bank account.
Organizations implement IT projects for a myriad reasons, such as to improve e-commerce capabilities, increase market share or achieve operational efficiencies. Project success will depend on several factors, including the capacity, skills and competencies of the project team and retaining the team once assembled.
Recent high profile data losses have highlighted the need for better information classification along with the implementation of data protection measures based on the level of...
When EEMA was formed, it had a dream of end-to-end seamless supply chain collaboration. However, 20 years later that dream still has to be realised. The marketing hype associated with different fashionable scenarios has come and gone but the key issue still remains - there are no pan-European supply chain processes that are truly integrated and seamless.
The Israeli security researcher Aviv Raff claims to have discovered a vulnerability in Skype’s communications software that could be exploited by hackers.
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