The botnet peril

For as many times as we have heard that e-commerce is at risk due to the actions of sophisticated cyber-criminals, it is astounding how little has been done to protect against wholesale attacks against users and, more importantly, against the major retailers who are more and more dependent upon commercial trade over the Internet. It […]

Underground digital economy spotlighted

In October 2008, the Symantec Corporation published its Report on the Underground Economy, which is the culmination of a year-long effort to observe and record the behaviors of bad actors in the cybercrime arena. By watching the activities of malicious botnets over a long period of time, Symantec’s researchers were able to identify likely interaction […]

Emerging cyber threats for 2009

In October 2008, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center hosted its annual summit on emerging security threats for the coming year. After its conclusion, the conference issued a summary report entitled Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009, which catalogs a variety of threats that the conference participants felt would be important in the coming year. […]