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Securing communications to reduce online fraud

By Linda Musthaler Corero | January 26, 2012 2012.01.26

The last decade has seen huge growth in the number of U.S. households that use online banking and online bill paying services. Some 72.5 million households participate in online banking, with 36.4 million using the Internet to pay bills, according to the Fiserv 2010 Consumer Billing and Payment Trends Survey. Those numbers represent a an 84%...

Better secure your code: Web application attacks are on the rise

By Neil Roiter Corero | January 25, 2012 2012.01.25

Web attacks are on the rise, up 30% in six months, according to security vendor Imperva. The second edition of Imperva's Web Application Attack Report (the first report was issued in July) identifies cross-site scripting (XSS) as the attack vector of choice (29% of the attacks reported), followed by directory traversal (DT), accounting for...

Deploy Red Team to root out excess privilege — or end up red-faced

By Richard Stiennon Corero | January 25, 2012 2012.01.25

I have been working on fleshing out the duties of an internal Red Team. Many organizations use outside firms to perform periodic attack and penetration tests. Some, like Stratfor, do not — much to their chagrin when they become the target of an attack. While outside pen testing is important, it does not address the bigger problems facing the...

Twitter acquisition of web security firm Dasient protects its growing ad business

By Neil Roiter Corero | January 24, 2012 2012.01.24

Twitter’s acquisition of Web security company Dasient is good news for the social network giant and its millions of users, though, on the down side, it takes the security vendor off the general market. The acquisition is apparently focused on protecting Twitter’s growing advertising business, leveraging Dasient’s...

Spotting and, perhaps, stopping the malicious insider

By Brian Musthaler Corero | January 24, 2012 2012.01.24

Do you know this person? He is currently employed, between the age of 35 and 40, holds a technical position, and has a new job offer at a competing company. He very well could be working next to you right now. And he’s someone every company should be concerned about. Who is this person? It’s is the “malicious insider,”...

Securing communications to reduce online fraud

Better secure your code: Web application attacks are on the rise

Deploy Red Team to root out excess privilege — or end up red-faced

Twitter acquisition of web security firm Dasient protects its growing ad business

Spotting and, perhaps, stopping the malicious insider

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