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Avoiding fallout from Google’s blacklist

Small businesses remain prime targets for cybercrime. For small businesses, particularly entering the holiday season, the fallout from an attack is significant: hacked …

British bank account data is under threat

Bitdefender warns that 0.5 per cent of all spam sent worldwide is targeting customers of some of the most popular British financial institutions and services, including …

The operations of a cyber arms dealer

FireEye researchers have linked eleven distinct APT cyber espionage campaigns previously believed to be unrelated, leading them to believe that there is a shared operation …

Bitcoin wallet service hacked, 4,100 Bitcoins stolen

A daring hack and heist targeting online Bitcoin wallet service Inputs.io has resulted in the theft of 4,100 Bitcoins (currently over $1.3 million) and has left some of the …

Silk Road 2.0 goes online

As announced by well-known Silk Road user named “The Godfather”, who has been doing business on the infamous underground market for the last few years, another …

Malware peddlers testing new infection techniques

An ongoing malicious spam campaign impersonating UPS has shown that malware peddlers are experimenting with different approaches for infecting hapless users, and additional …

Security misconceptions among small businesses

More than 1,000 SMBs participated in a joint McAfee and Office Depot survey last month, and the majority (66 percent) felt confident that their data and devices are secure and …

Visual investigations of botnet command and control behavior

One of the classic debates in computer science concerns whether artificial intelligence or virtual reality is the more worthwhile pursuit. The advocates of artificial …

Exploring the dangers of a mobile lifestyle

We live in an increasingly digital world, and rely on the devices we use to store our more or less valuable information and to perform critical tasks. In fact, according to a …

Young employees don’t care about corporate policies

There’s a growing appetite of Generation Y employees to contravene corporate policies governing use of own devices, personal cloud storage accounts and new technologies …

Attackers use smaller botnets to launch high-bandwidth attacks

DDoS perpetrators changed tactics in Q3 2013 to boost attack sizes and hide their identities, according to Prolexic. “This quarter, the major concern is that reflection …

Top U.S. cities for online fraud origination

ThreatMetrix announced data ranking the top U.S. cities for the origination of online fraud. The data reveals that Santa Clara, CA, is the nation’s top spot for online …

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