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Deb Radcliff with 8 Tips to Keep Data Safe: fedtechmagazine.com | Feb, 2007 - From around the globe to around the block, here's help securing your systems. Read

The Surprising Security Threat: Your Printers: Computerworld | Jan. 15, 2007 - Radcliff on how networked printers can open your corporate network to malicious attacks and how you need to patch them. Read

Crypto Vision: defensesystems.com | Dec, 2006 - Beyond its digital eavesdropping and code-cracking efforts, NSA has another long-term objective: keeping DOD, and even civilian, data riding along on public networks safe from prying eyes. Read

Fake network gear: networkworld.com | Oct 23, 2006 - Counterfeit goods have popped up in the channel and could be in your organization. Read

The 21st-century CSO: EnterpriseLeadership.org | July 7, 2006 - Poineering CSOs at Nortel and TriWest describe their evolution into converged enterprise systems and corporate risk management, mapping out risk management structures adoptable by any organization as complex as theirs. Read

Remote control wars: scmagazine.com | June 6, 2006 - Millions of remote controlled 'bot' computers are being found in networks of tens of thousands of computers to send Spam, log keystrokes, relay phishing information, and other nefarious urposes. Read

Smart Attacks Call for Smarter Measures - Part 1: enterpriseleadership.org | May 22, 2006 - Smart devices have become the latest attack vector for online criminals, putting intellectual property, regulated and personal financial information stored on them at risk. In this three-part article, uthor Deb Radcliff explores these new attack vectors into the enterprise. Read

Sport phishing morphs into cybercrime wave: networkworld.com | May 22, 2006 - Organized criminals unleash armies of botnets to steal confidential information. Read

TalkingPortraits: talkingportraits.com | Apr, 2006 - Deb Radcliff talks about computer crime and remote controlled botnets.

Protecting data throughout its life cycle: Networkworld.com | Mar 20, 2006 - Data life-cycle protection is becoming just as important in New Data Center architectures as network security, but challenges abound. Read

Mining SIM: Networkworld.com | Nov 21, 2005 - Security information management helps the Mine Safety and Health Administration boost its security score from F to B. Read

After a security breach: Networkworld.com | Oct 24, 2005 - Every network is vulnerable to some type of attack. The important thing is how you respond. Read

Deb Radcliff talks about security in VentureMomentum e-zine: venturemomentum.com | Oct. 12, 2005 - See more. Read More

Digging out new rootkits: Networkworld.com | Sep 26, 2005 - These attacker tools have become stealthier than ever. Even so, they may not require specialized protection. Read

Of Avatars and Mob Justice: Invasion of Privacy, or Just Desserts?: Informit.com | Aug 12, 2005 - A group that calls itself Perverted-Justice is going after suspected pedophiles by luring them into chats with adult hackers acting as underage girls. A worthy cause, yes. But should they be acting as judge, jury and executioner without due process? Read

How to prevent pharming: Network World | July 18, 2005 - Protect your company's online reputation by locking down DNS and guarding against domain hijacking. Read

Get Smart on Web Application Security: DevSource | July 14, 2005 - Web applications are the latest gold mine for criminals bent on gathering valuable corporate and consumer data. Read

Radcliff wins TABPI award: networklife | June 30, 2005 - Network security writer Deb Radcliff produces the “Security Chief” Network Life column with advice about how best to safeguard home networks from the ever-shifting threats such as rampant viruses and worms, spyware and phishing. Read More

Don't ditch the landline yet: Network World | June 6, 2005 - Security Chief: Home VoIP is cool, but needs safety and reliability fixes first. Read

Fighting back against phishing: Network World | April 11, 2005 - In the past year, attacks have grown in volume and sophistication, but online merchants are on the offensive with consumer education and new authentication tools. Read

Hooking a phisher: Network World | April 11, 2005 - See how the FBI works with Internet companies to track and catch the bad guys Read
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Security automation: The next wave: Network World | March 21, 2005 - Beyond virus protection and patch management. Read

Radcliff Picked as FBTW President: fbtw.org | Jan. 12, 2005 - Freelance Business and Technology Writers Association elected Deborah Radcliff to lead the organization through the new year. Radcliff is an experienced, two-time Neal Award-winning technology writer who freelances for NetworkWorld, SecurityFocus and other business technology journals. Formerly a staff feature writer for Computerworld, she is now also writing a personal online safety column and working on a book. Read More

Identity Management in the Real World: CSO Magazine | November 2004 - What's identity management? Ask 20 vendors, get 20 answers. But CSOs aren't waiting for a universal definition; they're busy tackling whatever projects meet their business needs. Read

The evolution of IDS: - Security advances push intrusion detection deeper into the network, relegating its role to forensics investigation and internal monitoring. Read

This Is Only A Test: CSO Magazine | October 2004 - Simulations and tabletop exercises help CSOs practice and plan the best response for worst-case scenarios. Read

Companies adapt to a zero day world: Security Focus | Jul 13 2004 - Financial institutions with critical systems and cash on the line are reorganizing to deal with the closing gap between the hole and the patch. Read

Phear of Phishing: NetworkWorld | May 31 2004 - Sophisticated e-mail scams are a potential disaster for Internet commerce. Read

How to Protect Yourself from Identify Theft: Better Homes and Gardens Online | March 2004 - Identity theft can ruin your family's financial history. ... Here's what you can do about it. Read

Inside DoD Forensics Labs: Network World | March 8, 2004 - Radcliff gets invited into the Defense Computer Forensics Labs to see how a team of dedicated technologists using state of the art technology uncovers digital evidence that puts some serious bad guys behind bars. Read (Related Stories: Careers * Tools testing * Corporate investigations)

Neal Award Winner: | 2003 - Deb Radcliff won her second Neal Award in 2003, for group coverage for a Computerworld story about insecure wireless networks at airports. Read More

 

Spyware
Network World | February 2, 2004 - Your PC's are locked down. Then a user downloads something from the Web. Maybe it's a cool new freeware program or an upgradeded media player. Along with that program, the user has unknowingly loaded executable files that open a peer-to-peer connection and broadcasts personal use data to some unknown location on the Web. That PC has just been infected with spyware, a class of software that's so poorly written and so invasive that it's opened a whole new set of security and performance concerns. | Read

Help! I've been Webjacked! - A perfect example of spyware gone crazy. | Read

SMPD blue
Network World | October 27, 2003
San Mateo cops create wireless web to snare criminals. | Read

The Hackers Who Broke Windows
SecurityFocus | July 24 2003
The Last Stage of Delirium, the hacking group that laid open nearly every version of the Windows operating system last week, could use a little sleep. Since going public with the RPC buffer overflow bug that some are describing as the worst Windows security hole in history, the group has been caught in a media frenzy. | Read

 

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