cybercrime
Integrating IT security at the board level
2014 has seen an upsurge in public awareness of cybercrime, with a flurry of high-profile security breaches hitting the headlines. The sensationalised coverage of the …
Infected ATMs give away millions of dollars without credit cards
Kaspersky Lab performed a forensic investigation into cybercriminal attacks targeting multiple ATMs around the world. During the course of this investigation, researchers …
Every fifth Android user faces cyber attacks
A total of 1,000,000 Android device users around the world encountered dangerous software between August 2013 and July 2014, according to the results of a survey carried out …
AT&T suffers another insider breach
US telecom AT&T has lately been having problems with malicious insiders, and the latest incident has resulted in the compromise of account and personal information of a …
How consumers foot the bill for data breaches
Data breaches are almost always expensive and somebody always ends up paying those expenses somewhere down the line. Either because they were affected directly and have no one …
JPMorgan Chase breach confirmed, 83 million customers affected
A filing made by JPMorgan Chase with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday has finally confirmed that the biggest bank in the US has suffered a data breach. …
Hackers indicted for stealing Apache helicopter training software
Four members of an international computer hacking ring have been charged with breaking into computer networks of prominent technology companies and the US Army and stealing …
Global DDoS attack numbers decline, attacks from China rise
In the second quarter of 2014, Akamai observed attack traffic originating from 161 unique countries/regions, which was 33 fewer than the first quarter of the year. The highest …
Insider incidents and high-profile crimes increasing
The number of reported security incidents rose 48 percent this year to 42.8 million – which is the equivalent of 117,339 attacks per day. A report from PwC US, CIO and …
Exploring today’s top security concerns
Security related topics are often front and center in the 24-hour news cycle, but what concerns Americans the most? According to a new national survey from University of …
The Crime-as-a-Service business model
A service-based criminal industry is developing, in which specialists in the virtual underground economy develop products and services for use by other criminals. This …
Companies becoming lax in managing BYOD risk
Exposure to risk is as much of a threat today as it was in 2013; however, organizations have become less diligent in BYOD management and mitigation, according to TEKsystems. …
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