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National Town Hall on Cybersecurity

2011-05-03/0 Comments/in Conference, Events, Training/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Join 1105 Media, Cisco, (ISC)² and government and education cybersecurity leaders from across the country for an interactive National Town Hall discussion online.

“Osama Bin Laden Dead” Computer Security Tips: Black-Hat Search Engine Optimization (BH-SEO)

2011-05-02/0 Comments/in Web Security/by admin

After every major news event in recent years, such as the “Haiti Earthquake”, “Japanese tsunami”, “William and Kate Wedding” and now, “Osama Bin Laden dead” an increase of fraudulent web sites, links and files offering to provide information and unseen video, pictures come to a rise via emails and social networking sites.

National Town Hall on Cybersecurity

2011-05-03/0 Comments/in Conference, Events, Training/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Join 1105 Media, Cisco, (ISC)² and government and education cybersecurity leaders from across the country for an interactive National Town Hall discussion online.

“Osama Bin Laden Dead” Computer Security Tips: Black-Hat Search Engine Optimization (BH-SEO)

2011-05-02/0 Comments/in Web Security/by admin

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National Town Hall on Cybersecurity

2011-05-03/0 Comments/in Conference, Events, Training/by SecurityOrb_Staff

Join 1105 Media, Cisco, (ISC)² and government and education cybersecurity leaders from across the country for an interactive National Town Hall discussion online.

This event will be held on May 24, 2011 at 1PM EDT.

In this 90 minute TeleWebcast you will hear from:

Robert Brammer
Vice President, Advanced Technology and CTO, Northrop Grumman Information Systems
Alan Carswell
Chair, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Department, University of Maryland University College Graduate School of Management and Technology
Michael T. Dent
Chief Information Security Officer, Fairfax County
Government, DIT
Michael Kaiser
Executive Director, National Cyber Security Alliance
Donald R. Proctor
Senior Vice President, Office of the Chairman and CEO Cisco Systems
Ron Ross
Senior Computer Scientist and Information Security Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce
Hord Tipton
Executive Director, (ISC)²
Richard Wistocki
High Tech Crimes Unit, Naperville, Illinois Police Department

These cybersecurity experts will address specific concerns relative to mobility, and remote access as well as the broader implications of threats.

Registration is Free. but Space is Limited

—Register Today

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“Osama Bin Laden Dead” Computer Security Tips: Black-Hat Search Engine Optimization (BH-SEO)

2011-05-02/0 Comments/in Web Security/by admin

On Sunday evening, May 1, 2011, President Obama stated, “a small team of Americans raided the compound. After a firefight, they killed Bin Laden.” The information spread across the Internet at an exponential rate. Twitter reported more than 4,000 tweets per second at the beginning and end of Obama’s speech, and with no surprise, Google’s top-trending search term is, “Osama Bin Laden Dead”.

As cities, military installations and US Embassies are increasing security measures at the wake of the announcement, so should organizations and individual computer users.

This technique is called Black-Hat Search Engine Optimization (BH-SEO). Black Hat search engine optimization is customarily defined as techniques that are used to get higher search rankings in an unethical manner (Boswell, 2011). For example, a cyber-crook can increase their search-ranking by feeding them fake pages to make their malicious content seem legitimate, thus tricking users to visiting their malicious site that may be hosting malicious content to infect computers with malware. The newer the event or content, the more susceptible it is to the BH-SEO techniques, while older content are less susceptible.

What can you do to keep safe?

As always, make sure you have an anti-virus/malware application installed and updated on your computer.
Try to reside on reputable sources to view content.
Do not blindly trust search results; examine the title and content before actually accessing the website.
If you get redirected to an unexpected site or obtain a “click here for a free security scan” page, or to take a survey page, or even to a “download this codec program to view the video” DO NOT do it and exit the site.

References

Boswell, W. (2011). Black Hat Search Engine Optimization: What is Black Hat SEO? Retrieved from: http://websearch.about.com/od/seononos/a/spamseo.htm