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Recently Exposed Cyber Attacks Show Hackers Scoring Huge Victories in Critical US Sectors

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:00:00 GMT

From a long term cyber espionage campaign against a powerful US defense contractor, to a cash heist rivaling the largest in history, cyber attackers seem to be having their way with critical US industries according to recent headline stories. Global Digital Forensics specializes in helping organizations establish successful and current E-Defense systems to combat the ever evolving threats posed by cyber attackers.

(PRWeb May 14, 2013)

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Dam it! Chinese Hackers Tangling with US Infrastructure Again?

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:10:11 GMT

According to a recent report, Chinese hackers just got their hands on some valuable information about weaknesses in the US infrastructure. Global Digital Forensics founder, Joe Caruso, took some time to talk about these kinds of vulnerabilities, how attackers target and compromise SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems, long known to be a serious risk, and some steps that can be taken to mitigate that risk.

(PRWeb May 07, 2013)

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Before Focusing on Advanced Cyber Threats, US Businesses Better Have Their Cyber Security Basics Well Covered

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:00:00 GMT

Protecting an organization’s ESI (Electronically Stored Information) from sophisticated and advanced cyber threats can seem like a daunting mountain to climb, but according to Verizon’s 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report, US businesses need to spend a lot more time handling the simple threats first. Global Digital Forensics founder and CEO, Joe Caruso, weighs in on the report and the importance having at least the basics of cyber security very well covered before concentrating on the high end of the spectrum.

(PRWeb May 02, 2013)

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Global Digital Forensics Founder Discusses Cyber Security Tips for Businesses on Code Red! Interview

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:00:00 GMT

Global Digital Forensics founder and CEO, Joe Caruso, joined the Code Red! radio show last week to talk about cyber security issues facing businesses today and offers some tips to help them survive some of the most common cyber assaults. Guests also featured later during this episode, discussing the Boston marathon bombings, are Terry Turchie, Former Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, and former FBI Special Agent Kathleen Puckett, PhD, who is also a founding member of the FBI National Security Division's Behavior Analysis Program (BAP).

(PRWeb April 23, 2013)

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Flood of Digital Evidence Unprecedented in Manhunt for Boston Marathon Bomber(s)

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:00:00 GMT

The time it took for the national tragedy to unfold at the Boston Marathon on Monday could be counted in mere seconds, and the time it took for the horrors of that day to start circulating on the Internet in shocking detail took only a handful of minutes after that. Joe Caruso, founder and CEO/CTO of Global Digital Forensics, talks about how investigators harness the power of digital evidence to get to the truth.

(PRWeb April 18, 2013)

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Businesses Face a Storm of Anger and Distrust When Customer Data is Breached, and That’s Never a Recipe for Success

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:00:00 GMT

The aftereffects of a successful cyber intrusion or data breach can impact a business on many fronts, but angered customers and lost trust can prove to be the most serious and longest lasting consequences of them all. Global Digital Forensics helps businesses protect their most important cyber assets with proven solutions to not only significantly improve their overall cyber security posture, but also provide around-the-clock cyber emergency incident response services to help them quickly gain control of any cyber event before it turns into a public relations firestorm.

(PRWeb April 12, 2013)

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The “Biggest Cyber Attack in History” May Not Have Broken the Internet, This Time, But DDoS Attacks can Break a Business

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:00:00 GMT

An ongoing spat between Spamhaus and Cyberbunker exploded recently into a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack so large it had many major news outlets declaring it possibly the largest cyber attack in history. Global Digital Forensics offers businesses DDoS protection solutions to combat the growing threat of DDoS attacks and keep them from becoming another casualty on the cyber battleground.

(PRWeb April 05, 2013)

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With Damages Averaging Over Six Million Dollars per Data Breach, Even One Successful Cyber Attack on a Small Business Could Spell the End

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:00:00 GMT

Eye-opening numbers based on a recent study conducted by the U.S. House Small Business Subcommittee on Health and Technology tell a story every small business owner in this digital era should consider; the true costs of a successful data breach can sting a company on many fronts, and for small businesses especially, the sting could very well prove fatal. Global Digital Forensics offers small businesses big-league cyber security services, from penetration testing and cyber threat assessments, to emergency incident response services which can help businesses of any size stay standing on the today’s cyber battlefield.

(PRWeb March 28, 2013)

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When a Cyber Attack Occurs, the Key to Surviving the Attack, and the Aftermath, is All in How a Business Responds

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:00:00 GMT

Even with the best laid cyber security plans in force, absolute security can never be guaranteed, making emergency incident response a vital component to survival on the digital frontier. Global Digital Forensics is now offering clients a way to have professional cyber emergency incident responders, already familiar with their unique needs and digital architecture, ready to respond at a moment’s notice to help remediate any successful cyber attack, without the client incurring any costs if all stays quite on the cyber front.

(PRWeb March 21, 2013)

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Smartphones and Tablets Changing the Face of Business, From Cyber Security to eDiscovery

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:00:00 GMT

With the market for smartphones and tablets continuing to explode, and business increasingly relying on them to increase convenience and productivity, it has never been more important to make sure they are part of an organization’s cyber security picture, as well as fully considered for any matter requiring electronic discovery. Global Digital Forensics stands ready with cyber security and eDiscovery solutions updated for 2013 to assist clients on both fronts.

(PRWeb March 13, 2013)

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Cyber Espionage, National Security … Murder? Computer Forensics May Offer the Best Chance to Find the Truth

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:00:00 GMT

When it comes to unraveling a mystery today, chances are some of the answers, if not all, will be found in digital form. So when a suspicious suicide leads to accusations of a heinous crime like murder, all wrapped up in things like cyber espionage, intellectual property theft, digital suicide notes and all the other critical digital evidence that goes with it - "it’s no wonder it was digital evidence that really changed the complexion of the story involving Shane Todd’s mysterious suicide in Singapore,” says GDF founder Joe Caruso.

(PRWeb March 08, 2013)

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From Power Plants to Oil Rigs, Critical US Infrastructure Taking A Beating from USB Delivered Cyber Attacks – GDF’s Penetration Testing Helps Expose those Kinds of Weak Links in Cyber Security

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:00:00 GMT

USB sticks can be convenient and practical for many things, but they can also be a devastatingly effective way for attackers to bypass cyber security measures on segmented or non-Internet facing networks. Global Digital Forensics offers comprehensive cyber threat assessments and penetration testing with a strong focus on identifying cyber threat vectors like susceptibility to USB stick malware, cross-device delivery and social engineering vulnerabilities.

(PRWeb March 04, 2013)

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Shanghaied Cyber-Style? Some Real Evidence of Chinese Involvement in US Cyber Attacks Starting to Mount – “Complexity and Longevity of Such Coordinated Attacks Can Take a Heavy Toll,” Says GDF Founder

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Most of the time organizations like to stay as hush-hush as possible when it comes to being the victim of a cyber attack, but sometimes, the victim has the weaponry to send a salvo of their own in retaliation, as is the case with The New York Times and their global megaphone. To Global Digital Forensics founder, Joe Caruso, “This type of high profile exposé should be a lesson that every US organization with a digital presence should not only take to heart, but take action on as well.”

(PRWeb February 22, 2013)

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The State of our Union? Threatened by Cyber Attacks – Professional Cyber Threat Assessments Chart the Course to Fortifying Security Posture

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Hacking events can threaten the very fabric of society, and last week’s State of the Union address was just one more verification that for US businesses, corporations, agencies, institutions and citizens alike, the dangers posed by cyber attackers are growing. A comprehensive cyber threat assessment by Global Digital Forensics is an effective way for any organization plugged into the digital world to establish a sound foundation for improving cyber security posture.

(PRWeb February 19, 2013)

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Money and Power? Hackers Breach the Fed and the D.O.E, but for a Different Target - PII is Treasure Too, says Global Digital Forensics Founder

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Digital assets take many forms; and while corporate secrets, intellectual property and electronic currency are tantalizing targets for hackers, it’s often information about people they are after, as the slew of recent high-profile hacks demonstrate. The founder of Global Digital Forensics sheds a little light on why this information is so valuable to hackers and some of the fundamentals crucial to every business or organization in today’s digital age to protect it.

(PRWeb February 12, 2013)

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Red Alert! The NYT and Other Media Goliaths aren’t the Only Ones Being Hacked By Foreign Entities – Global Digital Forensics Cyber Threat Solutions Help Identify and Reduce the Risk

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:00:00 GMT

While media outlets can be a veritable goldmine of sensitive information for hackers to target, they are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to daily cyber threats like intrusions, cyber espionage and other Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). Cyber threat assessments, penetration testing and other cyber security solutions offered by Global Digital Forensics help clients substantially fortify their cyber security posture to combat these types of threats and more.

(PRWeb February 06, 2013)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/Foreign-Cyber-Attacks/prweb10400695.htm

From Fines, Sanctions and Judgments, to Client Trust and Business Integrity, A Forensic Readiness Assessment by Global Digital Forensics Helps Businesses Protect their Interests and their Bottom Line when a Matter Arises Involving Digital Assets

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:00:00 GMT

With Sony being levied a hefty fine last week by UK regulators for a data breach incident which occurred over a year and a half ago, it’s a present day example of just how serious and long lasting the legal ramifications can be when digital information is at the center of the storm. Whether it’s an intrusion event like a data breach, or any other legal matter requiring ESI (Electronically Stored Information) to be used as evidence during the electronic discovery (eDiscovery) process of litigation, a Global Digital Forensics Forensic Readiness Assessment helps clients develop an incident-to-conclusion “roadmap” designed to put an effective and streamlined plan in place which can be quickly and efficiently executed should a cyber-matter demand it.

(PRWeb January 31, 2013)

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Botnets Turn Victims of Cyber Crime into Unknowing Accomplices - A Global Digital Forensics Deep Analysis for Trojans and Rootkits Helps Clients Break those Ties that Bind

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Botnets are large networks of systems or devices which have had their system security compromised and in turn can be used to do the cyber-bidding of an outside attacker, almost always without the system’s or device’s user ever even knowing it’s going on. Global Digital Forensics offers clients deep analysis malware testing to help uncover and eradicate the underlying Trojans and rootkits that let hackers enslave their many victims.

(PRWeb January 25, 2013)

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One USB Stick Infected with Malware, Plus One Power Plant, Can Equal Big Problems for Everyone – Global Digital Forensics Helps Clients Spot and Rectify These Types of Cyber Security Weaknesses

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:00:00 GMT

From the famous Stuxnet cyber attack which crippled the Iranian nuclear program in 2010, to the recently released reports about 2 US power plants being infected by malware, USB stick delivery has again proven to be a highly effective way to not only help hackers infiltrate corporate networks, but also jump the "air gap” to internal networks and industrial control systems not even connected to the outside world. Global Digital Forensics offers a tailored social engineering testing component, with USB malware delivery in mind, as part of its comprehensive penetration testing and cyber threat assessments.

(PRWeb January 21, 2013)

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Operation Red October Offers More Proof Cyber Espionage is Alive and Well – Global Digital Forensics Helps Clients Protect Digital Assets, Intellectual Property and Other Electronic Secrets

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:00:00 GMT

The days when spies needed to break into highly secure areas to snap pictures of secret files in a dark room with a miniature camera have become another 20th century relic collecting dust, because today, companies’ fortunes rise and fall on how well secrets living in digital form can be kept. Global Digital Forensics offers newly updated testing and solutions designed to help clients navigate the cyber warfare and cyber espionage battlefields of 2013.

(PRWeb January 16, 2013)

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The Hefty Price Tag of Being Hacked Takes Many Forms – Penetration Testing and Cyber Threat Assessments By Global Digital Forensics, Updated for 2013, Help Combat The Threats

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Just like advancements in medicine and technology, the world of cyber threats never stops evolving. Global Digital Forensics has spent the last two decades evolving with it and offers penetration testing and cyber threat assessments newly updated for 2013 to help hospitals, banks, or any other type of businesses relying on digital information, to not only thwart as many threats as possible, but also help reduce the costly aftermath should a cyber-attack still manage to find its mark.

(PRWeb January 11, 2013)

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Lanza’s Destroyed Hard Drive Perfect Example of eDiscovery Challenges 2013 Will Bring - Global Digital Forensics Poised to Help Law Firms and Investigators Meet Them

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:05:07 GMT

With 2012 now in the books, focus shifts to the challenges 2013 will have in store for law firms and cyber investigators dealing with digital evidence. The founder of Global Digital Forensics shares some industry insight into burgeoning trends which can be expected to make up a bigger piece of the pie in 2013 and how they'll affect the eDiscovery arena going forward.

(PRWeb January 08, 2013)

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