insiders
The New Face of Cybercrime: When the Criminal Isn’t the Hacker
As cybercrime morphs into highly organized crime, recent DOJ prosecutions target negotiators, access brokers, and insiders—shifting the battlefield from patching technical exploits to dismantling the entire criminal supply chain ...
Security Boulevard
AI Decides to Engage in Insider Trading
Bruce Schneier | | academic papers, Artificial Intelligence, cheating, deception, insiders, LLM, Uncategorized
A stock-trading AI (a simulated experiment) engaged in insider trading, even though it “knew” it was wrong. The agent is put under pressure in three ways. First, it receives a email from ...
NASA’s Insider Threat Program
The Office of Inspector General has audited NASA’s insider threat program: While NASA has a fully operational insider threat program for its classified systems, the vast majority of the Agency’s information technology ...
More Attacks against Computer Automatic Update Systems
Last month, Kaspersky discovered that Asus's live update system was infected with malware, an operation it called Operation Shadowhammer. Now we learn that six other companies were targeted in the same operation ...
Intimate Partner Threat
Bruce Schneier | | Authentication, computersecurity, insiders, security bloggers network, securityquestions, socialmedia, threatmodels
Princeton's Karen Levy has a good article computer security and the intimate partner threat: When you learn that your privacy has been compromised, the common advice is to prevent additional access -- ...
Insidious Insiders: Bank of America
When I talk or write about inappropriate confidential information disclosure, I often point out that data loss prevention (DLP) systems most commonly help reduce the everyday mistakes by well-intentioned employees just trying ...

