Computer-based attacks are being leveraged by miscreants to gain a global economic and informational advantage over others.  This is the message presented by ScanSafe’s 2009 Annual Global Threat Report, which was released last week.  Over the course of 2009, ScanSafe, which was acquired by Cisco in December, 2009, monitored customer web traffic and blocked malicious content through its cloud-based security service.  The results of their analysis uncovered some interesting points, the most widely reported being that 80% of exploits in 2009 were based on malicious PDF files.  But the subtexts from the report regarding targeted theft and criminal exploitation deserve a deeper look.

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The International Secure Systems Development Conference, taking place in London during May 2010, addresses the key issues around designing-in security for standard and web-based software and systems, …

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www.whitehouse.gov The federal government invites the creation of, and participation in, public-private partnerships to raise cybersecurity awareness, train personnel, stimulate market forces, improve technology, identify and remediate vulnerabilities, exchange information, and plan recovery operations. People and organizations across the United States have already taken steps to improve cyberspace security. On September 18, 2002, many private-sector entities released plans and strategies for securing their respective infrastructures. The Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security has played a unique role in facilitating private-sector contributions to THENATIONALSTRATEGYTO SECURECYBERSPACE xiii EXECUTIVE

In theory, biometrics are a great way to authenticate a user: it's impossible to lose your fingerprint (barring the most gruesome of developments), you can't forget it like you could a password, and i…

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