Cyber-Crime

Gaza Cyber Warlords

July 31, 2014 — Leave a comment

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The endless news flow about the Gaza conflict with a number of victims increasing on both sides and troubling potential for further escalation has completely camouflaged some other equally important events taking place in the background. One of them is definitely an unparalleled Israeli hacking school, which fights its virtual battles with the same or even greater intensity.

It is an intriguing and proven fact that the Israeli IT infrastructure is one of the most endangered and attacked in the world. This fact provides the Israeli hacking school with an absolute abundance of real-life scenarios and practicing material. Israeli hackers are among the best in the virtual battlefield. Is this true?

Well, we can never be quite sure about this one. As long as the system is functioning as it supposed that means someone is doing a proper job. The experts from the Israeli hacking school say that they regular job is to handle up to 10,000 different cyber attacks every single hour. How about that for a change?

We need peace in Gaza as soon as possible, in both real and virtual world. We are quite aware that this is an easy thing to say and almost impossible to achieve at the moment. Unfortunately, we cannot hear or see the cyber guns, but we can certainly experience their harmful effect first-hand once they occur.

The Next Chapter: The Public Cyber-health

July 22, 2014 — Leave a comment

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There is nothing wrong with this picture. If we have cyber illnesses, we should have the cyber-health section opened, as well. As a matter of fact, this should be our next chapter and priority. We were able to eliminate so many dangerous diseases for good. Why should malware and Trojans be an exception in the parallel cyber universe?

This is how the US Department of Justice has decided to eradicate GameOver Zeus and CryptoLocker. We are talking about the massive, unprecedented action, which included hundreds of thousands of infected computers. The government seemed pretty much determined to demonstrate its ability to challenge any kind of IT security threat.

These types of analogies are not only the eye-catching figures of speech. We do not need additional chapters for the believe it or not magazine section. It is not a joke to introduce a Ministry of Cyber-Health. Maybe we will not be able to save lives, but we will certainly prevent some serious damages from occurring in the very first place.

Prevention should be our priority in both public and cyber-health. You know how they say, don’t you? Prevention is the best possible medicine you can take. The sooner we examine the seriousness of cyber-illnesses for our cyber-health, the quicker we will be able to successfully eliminate all IT security threats. It is about time we use some extremely effective IT Penicillin.

Cyber Terror. Human Error.

July 13, 2014 — Leave a comment

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According to the recent findings of the Ponemon institute for “The State of Data Centric Security” human errors and attitudes remain to be the biggest problem for the adequate IT security. The statistical percentages in this field are simply too depressing and discouraging to handle.

Although, the companies which took part in this survey recognized the threats and even suffered from cyber-attacks, more than 60% of them missed to take a serious action about it. Really hard to believe, and almost impossible to justify. There are so many excuses to simply paralyze all your efforts instantaneously.

We do not have enough qualified personnel. Our budget is limited. Other projects are our priority right now. We do not have time to do it right now. Do these excuses sound.familiar to you? What kind of a catastrophic damage we have to suffer from in order to come to our senses?

We can create a state of the art security solution all in vain. What is the use, if there is no one to use it properly or on time? Unfortunately, a human error still remains to be cyber-cryme’s most helpful ally. What do we have to do to change all of that? Think about it. Will you?