Even as WikiLeaks supporters fought back anti-WikiLeaks companies and tried to keep the momentum going, the federal government ordered new rules to prevent future breaches. – As cables continue to trickle out of WikiLeaks in the second week since the
site began posting, it appears that WikiLeaks and the United
States government have learned some hard
lessons.
quot;Previously with security breaches, the focus has been on the outside
threat, quot; said Darren Hayes, …
Hacker Albert Gonzalez receives another 20-year sentence to run concurrently with the one he received March 25, meaning Gonzalez will serve a maximum of 20 years for his roles in some of the largest known data security breaches in recent memory.
– Hacker Albert Gonzalez received another 20 year-sentence March 26 to run concurrently with the one he received sentence he received March 25 in two other cases.
Today’s sentencing brought the odyssey of the 28-year-old cyber-criminal to a close, in a case covering the massive breach of Heartland P…
One of the most common ways of preventing insider security breaches is to have an auditing system in place, which monitors who is doing what within the system. Another method of preventing insider security breaches is to implement a system of job rotation or separation of duties. But Multi-Party Authorization is a better method for proactively preventing insider security breaches because, as Knowledge Center contributor Craig Palmore explains here, Multi-Party Authorization requires two or more people in order to allow access to certain sensitive files.
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Corporation’s trusted employee, Harry, scanned his computer screen,
whistling through his teeth. quot;Nearly there now, quot; he thought. quot;Just a
few more clicks and I’ll get what I need to know. They’re going to pay
me for what I find out. quot; Harry’s fingers flew over the keyboard,…
