Europol to Reveal Cybercrime Risk Level - PCWorld Business Center

Europol to Reveal Cybercrime Risk Level - PCWorld Business Center
Here is the report abridged:
http://www.europol.europa.eu/publications/Serious_Crime_Overviews/Internet_Facilitated_Organised_Crime_iOCTA.pdf
And the full version:
http://www.europol.europa.eu/publications/European_Organised_Crime_Threat_Assessment_(OCTA)/OCTA2009.pdf

RSA whitepaper on security implications of virtualised environments

Although fairly VMWare/EMC centric in the solutions section, this paper raises some important considerations with regards to security in a virtualised environment related to:

1. Platform hardening,
2. Configuration and change management,
3. Administrative access control,
4. Network security and segmentation,
5. Audit logging.

Registration required:
https://rsa-email.rsa.com/servlet/campaignrespondent?_ID_=rsa.4696&WPID=10393

NSA shows us how to write secure code

The Tokeneer project was commisioned by the NSA, and has now been released to the community. The idea is to show that code can be written to comply with the Common Criteria EAL 5:
http://www.adacore.com/home/gnatpro/tokeneer/

IBM ISS Trends report 2007

http://www.iss.net/x-force_report_images/2008/index.html

Wireless: Its a threat official!

Friends of dD will already know our disdiain for all things wireless. However it is now official! It would appear though that dD is at odds with the big boss himself Bruce Schneier himself! bummer.

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