This has been a busy year for both hackers and computer forensic specialists. Whether it was the 4 million usernames and e-mail addresses swiped in a hack of The Pirate Bay or AT&T's Website hack that exposed the e-mail addresses of iPad 3G owners, the first six months of 2010 are a reminder of the realities of today's IT security landscape. With this backdrop, security professionals will meet the week of July 26 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas to discuss the latest threats and what can be done about them.
Think of it as one more reason not to write checks.
Hackers believed to be operating out of Russia have figured out a high-tech way to carry out the decidedly low-tech crime of check fraud, a computer security company says — writing at least $9 million in fakes against more than 1,200 legitimate accounts.
But these hackers got the account information in an unusual way: They broke into three websites that specialize in a little-known type of business — archiving check images online.
One important piece of a multilevel security defense for companies of almost any size is network access control (NAC), which lets you enforce policies for end-user machines.
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