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By Matt | October 20, 2007

The post is to serve as a library for good articles on general Information Systems security.

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Scott Berinato, October 2007 CIO Magazine
This series of three articles (plus a technical write up) contain an in-depth look at a sophisticated malware enterprise revolving around a piece of malware called “Gozi.”  As an example of the sophistication:

Some machines, like some stocks, would under perform and provide little private information. But others would land the subscriber a windfall of private data. The point was to subscribe to several infected machines to balance that risk, the way Wall Street fund managers invest in many stocks to offset losses in one company with gains in another.

While the U.S. Military may protect our shores from national attacks, and Immigration and other police services can keep most of the criminals physically outside our borders — over the coming decades organized, criminal attacks against our information systems are likely.

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Gozi Technical Write-up

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2009 Verizon Data Breach Report

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SANS Evolving Security Threat Report

This report includes this very nice graph using data from the Verizon 2009 Report:

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