Cyber Security and Pointers from Criminology
While cyber security may have you thinking in zeros and ones, and wondering which next generation firewall you should buy next, the human element is alive and well in cyber crime.
While cyber security may have you thinking in zeros and ones, and wondering which next generation firewall you should buy next, the human element is alive and well in cyber crime.
Don’t take this title too literally. Ransomware, the malware that extorts money from victims to prevent a disaster, will surely continue to be active, at least in the short term.
While the web has opened wide the doors of opportunity for entrepreneurs around the world, others have shown evidence of creativity as well. Ingenious use of technologies has led to hacktivism, identity theft, distributed denial of service (DDoS) and swatting, to name but a few. Perpetrators use both the latest cyber-techniques and also old-fashioned approaches…