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Computer Forensics

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PCI DSS Version 3.0: New Standard But Same Problems?

Introduction"Cardholder data has been a target for offenders. Deficiency of awareness and education around payment protection and poor execution and maintenance of this PCI Standards contributes to several of the safety breaches occurring now" PCI SSC'PCI DSS 3.0 Change Highlights' - August 2013Card info theft remains occurring so the third revision of the PCI Data Security Standard is just as much a re-launch as a revamp.Most organizations - Level 1 Merchants - have yet to fully implement all t...

Manager in the Middle

"At the past day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and beverage. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."(John 7:37-38 KJV)Rivers of living water!How true that is! Water which increases in quantity as it flows. Water that's shown to be brand new. People people who have come to Jesus and asked for a beverage know quite clearly the energy and newness they get. Freque...

How to Become a Digital Forensics Investigator

WallpaperDigital forensics involves the utilizing the scientific way of exploring and analyzing information from digital media in order that the data may be utilized as evidence in the court. Investigating computing apparatus entails obtaining personal data without undermining it, analyzing suspect computer data to find out the details, for example, origin and material, displaying computer established data to employees, and implementing laws to electronic findings. Digital forensics investigates...

CSI Number11 - The Case of the Unheard Evidence

It was a balmy summer day in Marin County, back close to the start of my personal computer forensics career. Back in the day - until we called it that - I'd hailed as an expert opinion just a couple times. My toes were not level yet, my sneakers never yet gummy. Y2K was only starting to glow in the opinion of the failed armies of COBOL developers. The weather was appropriate for taking large steps. The place was ideal for studying.The timing was ripe for disappointments.However, not initially. I...

A Look Into Cybercrime

Cybercrime is described as any criminal action between computers, network infrastructures, or communicating apparatus.From the first years of conception, cybercrime wasn't as wide spread as it is today. It was generally perpetrated by a rogue individual or a small set of people just attempting to snoop around some organization or private info. The vast majority of those intrusions in which an effort to determine exactly how heavy they can penetrate without being uncovered. The goals of these fol...

Resource Allocation In Your Computing Environment

Computing resources aren't infinite, and has to be allocated in a smart and effective way. Resources like CPU power, disk and memory space are limitations in almost any computing environment. In a private computing environment, you'd run out of disc space if you had an incredibly large music collection, or a very large group of films or such different media.Likewise, in an enterprise level, if there was extensive duplication of information, like the very same documents being saved on various com...

Resource Allocation In Your Computing Environment

Computing resources aren't infinite, and has to be allocated in a smart and effective way. Resources like CPU power, disk and memory space are limitations in almost any computing environment. In a private computing environment, you'd run out of disc space if you had an incredibly large music collection, or a very large group of films or such different media.Likewise, in an enterprise level, if there was extensive duplication of information, like the very same documents being saved on various com...

File Integrity Monitoring - Why Your Security Is Compromised Without It

IntroductionFile Integrity Monitoring is crucial for the safety of any company' IT. We analyze the demand for malware detection, addressing the inevitable defects in anti virus systems.Malware Detection - How Successful is Anti-Virus?When malware strikes a platform - most commonly a Windows operating system, however progressively Linux and Solaris systems are coming under threat (particularly with the revived popularity of Apple workstations running Mac OS X) - it will have to be implemented in ...

I've Been Hacked! What Do I Do Now?

We get this question many times weekly, so it is not just you. And no, it does not mean that you're mad - even if your friends think so, and also when law enforcement will not accept your own case. People's computers and telephones become hacked, daily.Why won't the police do anything about it - isn't it a crime?Generally law enforcement will take to a situation that entails endangerment of children, reduction of greater than roughly $500 in land (this varies from authority to authority and may ...

Is Your QSA Making You Less Secure?

IntroductionMost organizations will turn to some QSA after job a PCI Compliance job. A Qualified Security Assessor is the man you want to meet at any security steps and processes that you employ to fulfill compliance with the PCI DSS therefore it is reasonable to make them let you know exactly what you want to do.For most, PCI Compliance is about only dealing with the PCI DSS at precisely the exact same manner they'd deal with a different deadlined project. When can the bank need us to become PC...