Our CEO, Jason King, is currently at the exclusive Google Zeitgeist Europe '08 conference in London where "Europe's most forward-thinking innovators and visionaries congregate to share perspectives on trends shaping our world." As opportunity would have it, Jason also spoke briefly on behalf of the CSIA with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who arrived at the event this morning under a thick security blanket. If we can get ahold of that news clip, be sure that we'll be posting it here on the site.

While reports tell us that the cyber crime economy is still going strong, there have been a number of arrests and courtroom wins against the bad guys of online crime in the past few months. To name a few (some of which included lengthy, cross-border investigations):

Authentication security have traditionally been achieved with passwords, whitelists and blacklists. This kind of security often comes at the price being hard to use and manage, making it unsuitable for content-sharing social communities like Facebook and QQ. So what do you do when you just want to share some private photos with a few friends but don't want to go to the trouble of password generation and distribution?

It seems that hardly a day goes by that we don't see reports in the news about the risks posed by data leaks, or of sensitive information that made its way into the wrong hands. More information is now out on the latest leak - a credit breach at a U.S.-based supermarket chain, Hannaford Brothers - and malware is said to have enabled the scam.

Lately, we've seen a trend toward major security-related websites becoming the victim of targeted attacks. Assaults on the sites of Trend Micro, CA, and the volunteer-led security community, CastleCops, are all recent examples of this malicious behavior by hackers.