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…or staying in touch with CTAC (the Cyber Threat Analysis Center), whose personnel are mostly responsible for the content of this blog.
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned various ways in which you can keep track of what the CTAC team is up to, but if you're a Facebook user, you might want to try the … Read More…

Bitcoins, a self-generated hash-based peer-to-peer currency with no centralized regulating body, are on a stratospheric trajectory, will it replace traditional legal tender as the currency of choice for cyber-nastiness? First, a little background.
Bitcoins first surfaced in a white paper purportedly by Satoshi Nakamoto. While no one can trace his (her) exact identity, it seems the … Read More…

Cyber Security pundits have been keenly watching the development of nascent state targeted attacks such as the Stuxnet worm with interest for some time and warning of the possible implications, but now it’s official. According to The Wall Street Journal,
“The Pentagon’s first formal cyber strategy, unclassified portions of which are expected to become public next … Read More…

Released today in PDF format, a highlight of our global threat report covers:

Don’t be silly online, please

Facebook privacy: security concerns

Cybersecurity symposium in San Diego

Return of the password reset attack

The Top Ten Threats

Top Ten Threats at a Glance (graph)

Be sure and check out our previous threat reports.

Figure 1: Top 10 ThreatSense.net May 2011

For further details, please … Read More…

Dear Twitter,
I'm afraid our relationship is just not working these days: in fact, we seem to have stopped communicating almost immediately you cosied up to our mutual friend Tweetdeck. Clearly, I'm the spare part in this relationship, since Tweetdeck isn't talking to me much, either. How can you treat me like this?
Since I'm not … Read More…

Introduction
As the sun is setting and I breathe some of the night time air I am inspired to write about Facebook.  Yes, *the* Facebook, the third largest country if it were a physical place with boundaries under a common rule of law and government.  When many people use a service such as this, it bears … Read More…

This blog has always been research-oriented. Not that we don't cover such issues as product information when appropriate, but we figure that in general, our readers don't look here for the sort of material we publish at the Press Center pages. However, the Threat Blog is one of the core activities of the Cyber Threat Analysis … Read More…