Group items tagged

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/225468 Hass Associates Reviews Madrid The Seattle hacker drove a black Mercedes. He owned a Rolex. He liked to frequent a downtown wine bar. While it's easy to think of cyber criminals as faceless, digital pickpockets in far-flung countries, the reality is that they are among us. In one notorious case, a bandit and his gang of cyber crooks compromised at least 53 Seattle-area small and medium-size businesses between 2008 and 2010, stealing enough data to cause $3 million in damages to the companies, their employees and their customers. "This wasn't the type of crime that we anticipated," tech-company employee Alec Fishburne said at a news conference (where the Seattle victims agreed to be identified but asked that their businesses remain anonymous). The gang hacked Fishburne's firm from another office within the high-rise building. He became aware of the breach after noticing some unusual financial transactions. "It was very disconcerting for a small company … to wonder whether there was some internal fraud or embezzlement happening," he told reporters. Another Seattle company was hacked after its old laptops were stolen in an office break-in; about a month later, funds were siphoned out through fraudulent payroll accounts. A third victim had the identities of almost all its employees stolen when the hacker gang cracked the company's network security. "It's enraging, because you think you have a system that's going to work," said the company's president. "These guys are really smart and ambitious, and that's a tough combination." At least that company had a network security plan. Many others don't. According to a 2012 nationwide study of small businesses by digital security firm Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), 83 percent of small businesses have no formal cyber security plan, while 69 percent lack even an informal one. Meanwhile, 71 percent are dependent on the internet for daily operations, yet almo

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxv8x7_hass-associates-reviews-madrid_news Hass Associates Reviews Madrid The Seattle hacker drove a black Mercedes. He owned a Rolex. He liked to frequent a downtown wine bar. While it's easy to think of cyber criminals as faceless, digital pickpockets in far-flung countries, the reality is that they are among us. In one notorious case, a bandit and his gang of cyber crooks compromised at least 53 Seattle-area small and medium-size businesses between 2008 and 2010, stealing enough data to cause $3 million in damages to the companies, their employees and their customers. "This wasn't the type of crime that we anticipated," tech-company employee Alec Fishburne said at a news conference (where the Seattle victims agreed to be identified but asked that their businesses remain anonymous). The gang hacked Fishburne's firm from another office within the high-rise building. He became aware of the breach after noticing some unusual financial transactions. "It was very disconcerting for a small company … to wonder whether there was some internal fraud or embezzlement happening," he told reporters. Another Seattle company was hacked after its old laptops were stolen in an office break-in; about a month later, funds were siphoned out through fraudulent payroll accounts. A third victim had the identities of almost all its employees stolen when the hacker gang cracked the company's network security. "It's enraging, because you think you have a system that's going to work," said the company's president. "These guys are really smart and ambitious, and that's a tough combination." At least that company had a network security plan. Many others don't. According to a 2012 nationwide study of small businesses by digital security firm Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), 83 percent of small businesses have no formal cyber security plan, while 69 percent lack even an informal one. Meanwhile, 71 percent are dependent on the interne

http://www.buzznet.com/groups/hassassociatesha INNEN en uke med hverandre, har både EU-kommisjonen og det hvite hus satt ut en rekke nye regler utformet for å dempe den økende cyber-angrep mot offentlige og private ofre. De farligste av disse er rettet mot det som kalles kritisk nasjonal infrastruktur. Målene kan være fysisk (for eksempel strømnett) eller virtuelle, for eksempel datanettverk brukes av det finansielle systemet. Sammen med hans the union melding på 11 februar utgitt Barack Obama et executive bestille ment å plugge hullet som blir forlatt av svikt i Kongressen for å passere lovgivning for cyber-sikkerhet som samsvarer med den voksende trusselen. "Vi ikke kan se tilbake år fra nå", sa han, "og lurer på hvorfor vi gjorde ingenting i ansiktet av reelle trusler mot vår sikkerhet og økonomien." Presidentens frustrasjon stammer fra skjebnen til to dødfødt tiltak. En er Cyber etterretningsdeling og Protection Act, kjent som CISPA, vedtatt av Representantenes hus i fjor, som ikke klarte å gjøre det til en stemme i Senatet (det hvite hus truet et veto på grunn av bekymringer om personvern). Den andre er den Cybersecurity Act, som ble støttet av administrasjonen, men falt offer for en republikanske filibuster i Senatet. Om alle sider er enig om alvoret i trusselen, vanskeliggjør Americas partisk splitt avtalen selv i cyber-sikkerhet. De fleste republikanerne understreke nasjonal sikkerhet og deling av informasjon, men vil unngå imponerende tyngende regjeringen-sett sikkerhetsstandarder på private firmaer. Demokratene bekymre seg mindre om regulatoriske overkill, men er redd for noe som lignet en snooper charter som ville tillate at staten å lirke inn dataene som holdes av Internett bedrifter på enkeltpersoner. Mr Obama's executive order fokuserer på å dele informasjon om trusler mellom myndigheter og privat sektor. Dette vil vanligvis være uklassifiserte, men kan inkludere potensielt klassifisert materiale hvis angrepene er på opera