cybercrime
Number of cyber attacks on retailers drops by half
Despite an 50 percent decline in the number of attacks against U.S. retailers, the number of records stolen from them remains at near record highs. IBM Security researchers …
Digital crime landscape in 2015
Based on its work this year in the fields of cyber security and financial crime, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence and Scott McVicar, its Managing Director of Cyber Security, …
Actions to strengthen your defense, minimize damage
IT professionals should use the nearly epic scale of the Sony cyber attacks to spur their companies into action versus panicking about potential risks. “The FBI is right …
Cybercrime will continue to evolve
The breadth and depth of the data breaches seen by the world in 2014 was shocking – spanning major banks, e-commerce giants, healthcare giants, casinos and others, …
New Zeus variant targets users of 150 banks
A new variant of the infamous Zeus banking and information-stealing Trojan has been created to target the users of over 150 different banks and 20 payment systems in 15 …
ICANN systems breached via spear-phishing emails
As many organizations before it, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been compromised after some of its employees fell for cleverly constructed …
Sony hackers threaten company and movie-goers
Guardians of Peace, the hacker group that hit Sony Pictures Entertainment, has released another batch of data labeled simply with “Michael Lynton,” the name of the …
TorrentLocker exposed: Investigation and analysis
ESET researchers analyzed a widespread case of ransomware generally known as TorrentLocker, which started spreading in early 2014. The latest variant of the malware has …
GOP hackers announce more Sony data leaks for Christmas
As the Guardians of Peace announced another explosive data leak for Christmas, Sony Pictures Entertainment got into incident minimization mode by sending out a message to news …
Sony hackers apparently wanted money
While we continue to wait for an official statement and/or explanation from Sony Pictures Entertainment, the stolen data leaked by the attackers and the analysis of the used …
Trends in Internet trust exploits, IoT, cyber espionage and privacy
In the third quarter, McAfee Labs detected more than 307 new threats every minute, or more than five every second, with mobile malware samples growing by 16 percent during the …
Home Wi-Fi security is as bad as PC security in the 90s
Nearly three out of four internet-connected households in the UK are at risk of getting attacked through their wireless router, according to a recent study by Avast Software. …
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