Over the weekend, the Guardian Jobs website, one of the top five employment sites in the UK with two million users logging in every month, was hacked. In a statement posted online, The Guardian stated that it had been “assured by our provider that the system is now secure and we have identified and contacted everyone who may have been affected”. It went on to admit that as many as half a million users may have had data compromised, all of whom had now been emailed. As Finjan, we hav... [More]

Norton (from Symantec) has launched a new online tool on its EveryClickMatters-website. It asks for some basic personal information as well as about online behavior (e.g., paying bills online, file sharing on P2P networks, etc.) It then calculates the potential value of this participant's identity on the black market. It sounds like a fun exercise, but most Internet users could be unpleasantly surprised, if not shocked, to find out how high the value of their ID could be for cybercriminals. It'... [More]

Looking at the latest statistics from CIFAS (the UK's fraud prevention service) we see a scary and ugly truth: Identify theft – which can happen to any of us! - has soared to 74 per cent in the first six months of the year! This increase is still surprising, although the activities of criminal gangs on the so-called carder forums - where criminals buy and sell cardholder-related data - which we reported - in April 2008. You can read more on this trend in our Q1 2008 security trends ... [More]