A recent report from McAffee reaffirms our 2009 predictions, and talks about how eCrime is starting to benefit from ex-employees, noting that this trend is not limited to the IT guys... As we recall - the possibility to participate in the emerging eCrime business is closer than ever, with a quick buck to be made, and most importantly - quickly...

As the recession is hitting every sector and every business, many ex-employees find themselves with a very "unique" opportunity to leverage their dayjob skills to turn a profit in this financial dire. Having a proper security policy in the organization, and probably just as important - a humane and considering layoff operations that put the most valuable asset (regardless if it is to leave the company) - the employee as a first priority, can help mitigate the risks of data loss, and disgruntled employee damages.

As we have been predicting (and following during 2008), the criminal’s mind is very much attuned to public mind. The current issues that everyone (well, at least a lot of us) has been dealing with are the current economical situation, and what president Obama is going to do about it. Without fail, eCriminals have been worried about the same issues, and in their latest “marketing” efforts have made sure that relevant internet sites will cater for themselves as well. Reports by Websense and Sophos show how both the official Barack Obama website, and a couple of popular job sites have been compromised in an attempt to capitalize on the volume of traffic that has been hitting these sites.

As usual, no much surprise here (read more details about the “almanac” of web security here), still, be careful out there – even on sites which you supposedly trust. Common sense usually trumps the irresistible urge to click and approve everything shown to you when trying to get to some content.