PandaLabs Uncovers Alarming Statistics on Cyber-Crime Black Market
PandaLabs discovered a vast network selling stolen bank details along with other types of products in forums and more than 50 dedicated online stores. This is a rapidly growing industry and cyber-criminals are aiding and abetting each other’s efforts to steal personal information for financial profit. After posing as a cyber-criminal to infiltrate the network, PandaLabs made some alarming discoveries which are available in the full report here: http://press.pandasecurity.com/usa/press-room/panda-white-paper/.
The cyber-crime black market, which has traditionally centered on distributing bank and credit card details stolen from users around the world, diversified its business model in 2010, and now sells a much broader range of hacked confidential information including bank credentials, log-ins, passwords, fake credit cards and more. But as openly available as this information is, PandaLabs discovered that it can only be accessed by personally contacting the hackers who are promoting their information for sale on forums and in chat rooms.
Making the Sale
By having access to bank credentials, criminals can easily defraud any bank or credit card account long before the hack is discovered. Alarmingly, this data can be purchased for as little as $2 per card, but this level does not provide additional information or verification of the account balance available. If the buyer wants a guarantee for the available credit line or bank balance, the price increases to $80 for smaller bank balances and upwards of $700 to access accounts with a guaranteed balance of $82,000. Read more
SIIA Announces Finalists for 2011 CODiE Awards in Digital Content Categories
Winners to be announced at 2011 Information Industry Summit in New York, January 25-26
The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announces the finalists for the prestigious CODiE Awards in the categories relating to digital content aggregation, distribution, management and publishing. The products that qualified will now be reviewed by members of SIIA, who will vote on winners in six categories. The winners will be announced at a special CODiE Awards Dinner on January 25th, which will be held in conjunction with the 2011 Information Industry Summit in New York City.
Twenty-nine products from 16 companies were selected as finalists from among over 100 nominations submitted by 40 companies. LexisNexis has the most products reaching the final stage, with 6 products across 4 categories. The finalists may now be reviewed on the CODiE Awards Website.
“This is the twenty-sixth year we have recognized excellence through the CODiE Awards program, and the 10th year we have offered awards in the content categories,” noted Ken Wasch, President of SIIA. “The competition is tough, as nominating companies are looking to make their products stand out from the competition. The innovations in the content industry shine through in the products selected as finalists, and we are very excited to see how the voting goes this year.” Read more
Get FileMaker Pro 11 For Half Off with Purchase of FileMaker Go
Get FileMaker Pro 11 For Half Off with Purchase of FileMaker Go for iPad or iPhone
Limited-time offer makes it easy to harness the power of the top-selling business database for iPhone and iPad
Starting today, those purchasing FileMaker Go for iPad or iPhone may purchase FileMaker Pro for just $149, half off the retail value of $299, it was announced by FileMaker.
Since its debut in July 2010, FileMaker Go has become the top-selling business database app for iPhone and iPad. Customers who purchase FileMaker Go for iPhone ($19.99) or FileMaker Go for iPad ($39.99) from the iTunes App Store between January 11 and June 17, 2011 will be able to download FileMaker Pro 11 from the online FileMaker Store for $149 – a 50% discount.* Promotion participants must purchase and download FileMaker Pro 11 between January 11 and June 23, 2011.
The popular FileMaker Go apps let customers work remotely with FileMaker Pro databases on iPhone or iPad to manage a wide range of tasks, including customer relationship management, on-site event registration, management of inventory or tracking project status while traveling. Businesses can use more than 30 built-in Starter Solutions or quickly create their own solutions using FileMaker Pro and then run them on an iPhone or iPad with FileMaker Go. Read more
Black Duck Software Names Open Source Rookies of 2010
New open source projects include a personal social network, a mobile application for aid workers
Data reveals increasing developer migration to GitHub
From a personally-controlled social network to a mobile application that lets aid workers collect, sort and share information about children in emergency situations, open source software is meeting the needs of today’s application developers, according to Black Duck Software, which announced its 2010 open source ‘Rookies of the Year’ list.
Working from a list of thousands of new projects launched in 2010, Black Duck evaluated a project’s popularity using a weighted scoring system that awards points for commit activity within a project, the number of developers involved, and the number of web sites linked to the project. After auditing its findings and normalizing scores, Black Duck determined the top 10 Rookie projects.
Some key observations from this year’s report include:
- 30% of the top 10 new projects in 2010 used the AGPL license, indicative of an increasing number of new cloud/SaaS related projects
- 40% of the top 10, and 32% of the top 50 projects, are now on github, indicating a significant shift to this repository Read more
Ford SYNC Software Upgrade Adds New Features to MyFord Touch
Ford has released the first software upgrade for SYNC with MyFord Touch, helping enhance and expand system compatibility and performance for 2011 Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX owners.
“Consumer electronic products and software change fast and frequently to keep up with customer needs and technology trends,” said John Schneider, chief engineer, Ford Multimedia and Infotainment. “A significant benefit of Ford SYNC is that it can be updated at the same speed as consumer electronics companies to keep our products and their owners at the forefront of the latest trends in technologies.
“Our owners can expect Ford to continue releasing software upgrades that improve compatibility, add more features and enhance performance, keeping their vehicles and the technologies offered fully up to date,” Schneider added.
The SYNC G2 V1.1 update demonstrates the power of the SYNC open connectivity platform, which was designed and intended for easy upgrades as software evolves. This first update evolved during development of the new 2011 Ford Explorer, which is now on sale and is the next product to feature MyFord Touch. Read more