Computer and Internet Security

24Nov Computer Virus drains millions from US Banks

Cyber crimes are on the rise. Recently over millions dollars were drained out of us bank accounts making use of a laptop or computer virus. The virus known as the “zues trojan” left several unsuspected people with out money in thier bank  accounts due to the cyber attack against U.S. banks.

The virus would embed itself in the targeted victims personal computer, allowing the criminals to track every keystroke, including those keystrokes for thier login and passwords for their online banking accounts. As soon as the crooks had the information they required they began moving the funds. In order to do this they would send “micro transfers” from the compromised accounts to “income mules” accounts and then were transferred to the masterminds of scam accounts thousands of miles away.

Cash mules very often have no idea that they are working for criminals. They think they have been hired to make funds transactions for an international company. These cash mules are very essential for the so referred to as “zeus gangs”, as this is the only way the crooks can hide the income trail. Even so, in this case the FBI’s position was quite clear stating that the mules were give funds so they knew they were becoming paid to steal.

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23Nov Free Webinar: Bank Managed Network Security

Today’s info security landscape is ever-changing in an attempt to keep up with new regulatory guidelines and rapidly changing technologies. And as today’s systems become more complex and your institution becomes much more reliant on the Net to conduct business, your require for enterprise information security understanding and expertise grows. Simply because of this trend, and due to ever-changing regulatory pressures, financial institutions are locating it much more price-powerful to outsource security monitoring responsibilities. You will need a technologies partner you can rely on…you require Gladiator’s Dedicated 24x7x365 Managed Security Services by your side.

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22Nov Simple Rules For PC Protection

The growth in World wide web popularity is followed by a growth in immoral and criminal activities on the web. Hackers, crackers, internet bullies, identity thieves, all of them and far more are out there in the cyber world. They invent new methods each and every day for attacking PCs and networks to use in criminal activities. Every person with a computer is exposed to it. This is why World wide web security has turn out to be such an critical topic in the last couple of years. When you go on the web you must know how to protect yourself.

Following are ten easy rules that you can follow in order to protect your PC and privacy: [ Read More... ]