If you haven’t registered yet for Friday’s Webinar on Network Operations Security, consider these two stories and ask yourself, if companies this big can have network security issues, am I sure all of my clients have the coverage they need?
- According to USA today security experts, “Cybercriminals have launched a massive new wave of internet-based schemes to steal personal data and carry out financial scams in an effort to take advantage of the fear and confusion created by tumbling markets… ” The number of con games, including cyberjacking, theft via tainted online ad links, and e-mail fraud, as well attacks on data storehouses have tripled since September 2008 according to the article, which can be found at http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2009-01-28-hackers-data-scams_N.htm?csp=34. Checkfree.com, the nation’s largest e-bill payment system, was recently attacked by an intruder who redirected all traffic to the site to a web server in the Ukraine with the intention of stealing passwords and data from users.
- According to tgdaily.com, a prominent Tech website, in October 2008, a terminated Fannie Mae contractor allegedly used a Fannie Mae laptop computer to gain access to the system and implant a script to activate on January 31, 2009 to completely wipe all of Fannie Mae’s 4,000 servers. Fortunately, the plot was discovered by a vigilant Unix engineer, but had it succeeded, it would have caused millions of dollars in damage, and potentially shut down operations at the mortgage lender for as much as a week. Read the whole story at http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-41262-118.html.
How to Register for the Webinar on March 13:
Click below to register for Stuckey & Company’s informative Webinar on Network Operations Security on March 13, 2009 at 1:00 pm CDT. Dwight Stuckey will discuss:
· What is Network Operations Security coverage?
· Who needs it?
· What is and isn’t covered?
· Additional Endorsements available
· YOUR questions!
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