There are concerns that computers at a majority of Canada's big banks are infected with a malicious computer worm capable of logging keystrokes and stealing passwords.

For information on how the Mariposa worm works, and what can be done about it, click here to hear from Mourad Debbabi (Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering and Concordia University Research Chair Tier I in Information Systems Security) and one of the founders of the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA). You’ll hear him first in English, then in French.
To contact Mourad Debbabi: 514-48-2424, ext. 5715 or 3166, or Debbabi@ciise.concordia.ca

For information about how this worm will affect banks and customer confidence, click here to hear from Reena Atanasiadis, a lecturer in the John Molson School of Business’s Department of Finance. You’ll hear from her first in English, then in French.
To contact Reena Atanasiadis: 514-848-2424, ext. 5967 or reena@jmsb.concordia.ca

Please note: Mourad Debbabi will be participating in a morning session of the upcoming President’s Conference Series, a public event to be held at Concordia November 4, 2009. Every Breath You Take: Surveillance, Security and the End of Privacy will present exciting research by Concordia faculty on the complex social, political and technological relationship between individual privacy and public security. Mourad Debbabi’s special guests for the 10a.m. session include members of the RCMP, the Competition Bureau and Sûreté du Québec. They’ll discuss risks associated with the electronic trail we leave behind during everyday computing.