Corporate espionage is a business almost as old as corporations, but thanks to the Internet revolution it has a new business model: cybercrime. A new report from McAfee illustrates how intellectual property and trade
Published on: March 29th, 2011
Tony Bradley
@itbusinessca
Has your original Web content been mysteriously appearing on other sites? Has something you've written recently appeared word-for-word, without attribution or back links, on a Web site other than your own?Web content theft,
Published on: March 21st, 2011
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
A former bookkeeper of a Sussex N.B. corner drugstore lands in jail for stealing $250,000 from her employer. Another bookkeeper for a rural group that brought electricity to Alberta farms pleaded guilty to
Published on: October 20th, 2010
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
Can you think of 007-style, modern day heists that captured – if only briefly – the attention of the media? An article I read recently on an ingenious attack that literally involves siphoning
Published on: October 5th, 2010
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
As his parents and sister silently wept, hacker mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to two concurrent 20-year stints in prison for his role in what prosecutors called the
The cost of a data breach increased last year to $204 per compromised customer record, according to the Ponemon Institute's annual study. The average total cost of a data breach rose from $6.65
Published on: January 26th, 2010
Ellen Messmer
@itbusinessca
This is a true story about sex, computers, the Internet, spying, theft, intrigue, and the police--and it all began this past February when David Krop made the mistake of leaving his two laptop
Published on: September 18th, 2009
Todd R. Weiss
@itbusinessca
Back in the early tech boom days, I worked with a guy we'll call James. A superior technician, he could repair almost any system in any state and was one to be bowed
Published on: February 25th, 2009
Anonymous .
@itbusinessca
If you're planning on traveling with your laptop this holiday season, you might want to travel prepared. The statistics are overwhelmingly bad: According to Gartner, one laptop is stolen every 53 seconds.U.S. airports,
Published on: December 2nd, 2008
Thomas Wailgum
@itbusinessca
Most often when systems administrators abuse their access to corporate networks and systems, the end result is either data theft or network sabotage on a massive scale. Not so in the case of
Published on: October 6th, 2008
Jaikumar Vijayan
@itbusinessca
When you're on the road, you can feel more like a juggler than a traveler: You've got your notebook, your smart phone, your camera, your GPS device, your MP3 player -- and all
Theft of laptops and other mobile devices is spiraling, and the consequences – financial and other – are getting increasingly dire.These two disconcerting realities are attested to by survey findings from a range
Published on: June 4th, 2008
Nestor Arellano
@itbusinessca
The world may be flat, as Thomas Friedman posits in his book, but this complex and interconnected planet of commerce can be one scary and risky place to conduct business. Enterprises have discovered
Published on: May 1st, 2008
Thomas Wailgum
@itbusinessca
We've heard about headline-making security breaches, such as TJX and CIBC, but the smaller ones often go and unnoticed – and unreported.This corporate oblivion is most apparent in the area of laptop theft,
Published on: February 15th, 2008
Vawn Himmelsbach
@itbusinessca
