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The growing cybercrime industry has within it some of the brightest minds around, and they're always coming up with new ways to get you. You may think you're safe from all this, but a read through this week's articles may change your mind - and help you keep cybercrime from your door.

Perhaps you think you're safe from cybercrime; perhaps you should take this quiz. (Item #1) Online crime is organized, it's growing and so is your organization's risk of being attacked. (Item #2) What is cyber insurance and what does it cover? (Item #3)

Your password could be an important defense against forms of cybercrime� make it good. (Item #4) If you invited a hacker to try and crack your password, you know the one that you use over and over for like every web page you visit, how many guesses would it take before he got it? (Item #5) Denial-of-service attacks have fallen off in frequency -- but it's still worth knowing how to respond to them. (Item #6)

As always, we look forward to hearing about your concerns with regards to business continuity. If you have a topic you'd like to see covered, please email me at [email protected]

Best Regards,

Bob Mellinger
President
Attainium Corp

Quote of the Week

"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens."
- Benjamin Disraeli -

Articles

1. Cybercrime Quiz: Assess Your Risk
Hackers creating viruses for fame have been overshadowed by criminals hacking for fortune. Take this quiz to see if you know enough to keep from becoming a cybercrime victim.
http://www.symantec.com/norton/cybercrime/quiz.jsp

2. How You Can Fight Cybercrime
Beyond IT and a trusted cadre of security vendors and consultants, information security requires understanding, involvement and consensus from all parts of the business at all levels, right up to the board, before problems occur. Security to combat cybercrime needs to be part of a company's disaster and business continuity plans, with security spending based on the overall threat cybercrime poses.
http://www.cio.com/article/117201/How_You_Can_Fight_Cybercrime?contentId=117201&slug=&

3. Crimes in cyber space
Law enforcement and security officials know it, and so do insurance professionals. In fact, they expect cyber liability to be one of the fastest-growing segments of the national property and casualty market.
http://www.crime-research.org/analytics/computer_crime22/

4. Strong passwords: How to create and use them
Your passwords are the keys you use to access information that you've stored on your computer and in your online accounts. Pass this information (and the following article also) along to your employees to help them protect your business and their personal information.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2014/08/25/create-stronger-passwords-and-protect-them/ (revised)

5. How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords
Hackers, and I'm not talking about the ethical kind, have developed a whole range of tools to get at your and your employer's data. The main impediment standing between this information remaining safe, or leaking out, is the password you choose. (Ironically, the best protection people have is usually the one they take least seriously.)
http://onemansblog.com/2007/03/26/how-id-hack-your-weak-passwords/

6. Can You Prevent a Denial-of-Service Attack on Your Website?
Computer viruses and worms are actually more likely to cause more extensive (and expensive) headaches for small and mid-size businesses than denial-of-service attacks. But it still makes sense for small businesses to know enough about the attacks to try to prevent them -- or, once they're in progress, to combat them while minimizing damage to their websites, systems and businesses.
http://technology.inc.com/security/articles/200701/dosattacks.html