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The true cost of cybercrime

From a cybercrime perspective, the opportunities are boundless: Seemingly everything has a computer in it, cars and pacemakers included. It’s almost certain that the …

$1M lost in attack against Bitcoin Internet Payment Services

Copenhagen-based Bitcoin Internet Payment Services (BIPS) has been hit with a DDoS attack and has had 1,295 BTC stolen (a little over $1M) mostly from the company’s own …

Judge denies bail for alleged Silk Road owner

Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged 29-year-old founder of black market drug website Silk Road, has been denied bail by US District Judge Kevin Fox in the Southern District of …

Best practices for businesses to secure their IT infrastructure

“Tis the season for reflecting on another year’s success, kicking off 2014 planning and preparing for… security attacks? With Cyber Monday and the holidays …

E-sports to pay $1M to settle covert Bitcoin mining complaint

The New Jersey attorney general’s office announced today that on-line video gaming company E-Sports Entertainment, LLC, has entered into a $1 million settlement that …

90% of workers in Britain cannot resist clicking on a web link

90% of UK workers surveyed have clicked on a web link embedded in an email with two-thirds (66%) admitting they very rarely first check to ensure the link is genuine, …

vBulletin.com hacked, hackers trying to sell info on 0-day used

The developers of popular Internet forum software vBulletin have announced late on Friday that their network has been attacked and successfully breached, and that the hackers …

A look into the MongoHQ breach

A recent security breach in MongoHQ (a MongoDB cloud services provider) left the company working hard to patch up security holes. Unfortunately common, this breach was only …

Watch out for less advanced malware and new exploit kits

This year, cybersecurity took center stage with nation-state attacks, numerous high-profile data breaches and prominent cybercriminal arrests. Websense Security Labs outlined …

Microsoft unveils state-of-the-art Cybercrime Center

Microsoft announced the opening of the Microsoft Cybercrime Center, which combines Microsoft’s legal and technical expertise as well as tools and technology with …

Sinowal and Zbot Trojan collaborate in new attack

Trend Micro researchers have recently come across an interesting example of malware collaboration involving the Zeus banking Trojan and a new variant of the password-stealing …

UK consumers demand to be told of all data breaches

The UK public wants to be informed whenever an organization suffers a data breach, and that more needs to be done to punish companies that lose sensitive information, …

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