Hacker Defaces Website of Botswanan Investment Organization

A hacker last week defaced the website of Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority and was able to change the homepage and some sections of the website, removing information on upcoming events and latest news usually displayed for investors.

Botswana newspaper Mmegi reported that the hacker replaced the intro section of homepage with lines of shades and other sections with obscure text. Normally, these sections feature events related to…

Report: Cyber-Crime Victims Often Blame Themselves

A Symantec report has found that a majority of cyber-crime victims blame themselves for the web attack, experiencing a sense of powerlessness and lack of justice.

More than 7,000 adults from 14 countries took part in research for the Norton Cybercrime Report: The Human Impact, which revealed that nearly 65 percent of adults globally have…

Abraxas’ Lance Cottrell: Fierce Competition in Web-Privacy Sector

New companies aiming to help individuals and businesses protect their identities and web behavior from marketers are facing tough challenges in the marketplace.

It’s not just competition from privacy freeware providers and users’ reluctance to give personal information to smaller start-up companies – many are simply unaware about how visible their online behavior is.

Setting…

PayPal CISO Michael Barrett Joins National Cyber Security Alliance Board

The National Cyber Security Alliance has named Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer, to its board of directors.

PayPal is the third company this year to join NCSA’s board. The company will work with board officers from AT&T, ADP, Cisco, EMC, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Google, Lockheed Martin, McAfee, Microsoft, SAIC…

Vincent Mihalik of Wyle: Majority of Cyber Threats Could Be Reduced by Following Best Practices

Vincent Mihalik has more than 25 years of Department of Defense experience specializing in cybersecurity, business and IT strategic planning, IT transformation, program management, and emerging technology assessments. Throughout his career, he worked closely with the heads of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army G-2, as well as led congressional…

More Malaysian Websites Being Hacked

A federal communications commission in Malaysia is reporting an increase in the number of websites being hacked, with 262 sites compromised compared to previous month’s 168, according to Bernama.

In a statement issued yesterday, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission noted how the number of websites hacked this month had increased drastically, and urged Malaysian website owners to update and enhance security on their web applications and servers to…

Survey: Global Variations in Online-Threat Perception‎, Few Understand Term ‘Rogueware’

A survey commissioned by F-Secure in Finland, Germany, Malaysia, Poland, Sweden, the UK and the United States has uncovered some intriguing international variations in how Internet users perceive threats.

Asked how concerned they are about their online privacy and data security, Germans (77 percent) and Malaysians (73 percent) expressed the most concern, while the Swedes…

Hacker Gets Six-Year Suspended Sentence, Multimillion-Dollar Fine for ATM Scam

A hacker has received a six-year suspended sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to participating in a worldwide scam to steal$9 million from automated teller machines.

Viktor Pleshchuk received a reduced sentence, which includes four years of probation, prosecutors said. He agreed to provide information about other hackers who cracked a computer system at RBS WorldPay, the U.S. payment-processing division of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, and cloning…

John Watters of iSIGHT Partners: Gravitational Pull into E-Crime Has Created a Meaningful Shift in the Risk Dimension

John Watters’ interest in cyber security intensified at the turn of the new millennium as he was looking at new investment themes. He made strategic investments in Archer Technologies and TippingPoint Technologies and a controlling investment in iDefense. When Symantec bought Riptech, Recourse and SecurityFocus on the same day in August of 2002,…

CSC Names Mark Rasch New Head for Cybersecurity, Privacy Consulting

CSC has named Mark Rasch director of cybersecurity and privacy consulting for its North American Public Sector business unit.

In this new role, Rasch will help develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for deploying and growing a new cybersecurity and privacy …