E-crime Now More Common Than Real Crime

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• E-crime Now More Common Than Real Crime
• Zynga Hit With Lawsuit Over Facebook Privacy Breach
• Apps Going Viral: When Your Smartphone Gets Hacked
• Click fraud incidence shoots up in Q3
• Congress to Facebook Over Privacy Row: We Want Answers
• 45% of Brits swear at slow PCs
• HP opens attack on Cisco certifications
• Entertaining risk analysis
• The Link Between Recent Privacy 'Breaches'
• IBM uses 'virtual doorman' to lock down cloud computing
• Facebook Quick Tip: 3 More Ways to Shore Up Security
• Canada says Google Street View breach was 'careless error'

E-crime Now More Common Than Real Crime Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT If there was any doubt about the popularity of electronic dupery, it should be put to rest with a report on global fraud released the week by the risk management consulting firm Kroll. For the first time since 2007, when the company began putting together its annual survey on crime, electronic fraud surpassed physical scams as the most common form of fraud in the world.

Zynga Hit With Lawsuit Over Facebook Privacy Breach Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT Zynga might need a friendly neighbor to tend its Farmville crops for a little while, as the Facebook game maker gets ready for a court battle over privacy. The company behind Facebook games such as Farmville, Mafia Wars, and Cafe World was roped into a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday. The suit alleges that Zynga collected and shared the data of 218 million Facebook user IDs with advertisers and data brokers.

Apps Going Viral: When Your Smartphone Gets Hacked Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT How secure is banking on your iPhone? How sure are you that those app developers have plugged those security holes? So far, there isn't much malicious code out there targeted at smartphones, but that soon may change as smartphone sales surpass those of laptop and desktop machines.

Click fraud incidence shoots up in Q3 Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT More than 20 percent of clicks on pay-per-click (PPC) ads in the third quarter were unintended or malicious, resulting in wasted marketing money that drew website visitors with no interest on the product or service advertised and no intention to buy.

Congress to Facebook Over Privacy Row: We Want Answers Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT Facebook's latest privacy gaffe has caught the attention of Congressmen Edward Markey (D., Mass.) and Joe Barton (R., Texas) leaders of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus. The two Congressmen have asked Facebook to answer questions regarding a privacy breach unearthed by a report in The Wall Street Journal on Monday. The Journal said that third-party Facebook applications, such as Farmville, were transmitting Facebook user IDs (UID) to advertising and Internet tracking firms.

45% of Brits swear at slow PCs Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT More than two in five (45 percent) of Brits swear at their PC when it slows down or freezes, says PC Tools.

HP opens attack on Cisco certifications Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT HP this week unveiled a training and certification program for IT personnel converging enterprise infrastructure and rearchitecting data centers.

Entertaining risk analysis Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT Risk management is, in a word, complicated. Hmmm... not strong enough – make that two words, it's extremely complicated.

The Link Between Recent Privacy 'Breaches' Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT Facebook has been the subject of intense scrutiny over privacy concerns...again. Or, is it still? Facebook is not alone, however, as Twitter and Android have also been recent targets of privacy ire. Each of these privacy incidents has something else in common as well--they are a result of relationships with third-parties that users have approved.

IBM uses 'virtual doorman' to lock down cloud computing Posted: 20 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT IBM has developed a new rootkit-detection system designed to make it easier to detect malicious attacks on virtualized data centers.

Facebook Quick Tip: 3 More Ways to Shore Up Security Posted: 19 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT Yes, Facebook has made some privacy mistakes. But to its credit, the social networking giant has been busing rolling out update after update in an effort to win back its users' trust.

Canada says Google Street View breach was 'careless error' Posted: 19 Oct 2010 09:00 AM PDT Canada's privacy commissioner recommended that Google implement new policies to ensure that another "careless error" doesn't lead to a privacy breach like the one caused by the company's Street View vehicles.

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