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Defeat ID thieves
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Natural Foods Merchandiser
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April 1, 2008
- Author:
- Stewart, Kimberly Lord
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Copyright informationCopyright Penton Media, Inc. Apr 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Shoppers' data is in your hands
"The fact is, the criminal who develops a targeted attack is wilier and more patient than the average work-a-day phisherman. He's spent time learning about your organization, about your employees, about your business partners. He's worked out ways to sneak around the major players in your defense-spam filters, firewalls, endpoint security, SSL encryption, up-to-date anti-virus software-and slip in through the tiny cracks. Thus to thwart targeted attacks, you need to find those little cracks and fill them."
Excerpt from Sara Peters, "The Devil's in the Details and the DLLs," Alert newsletter, Computer Security Institute, August 2007 (www.gocsi.com).
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