cybercrime

A new study of 3,765 publicly disclosed breach incidents shows they resulted in financial losses of more than $156 billion. Published by the Digital Forensics Association, the …

A Russian resident in his early 20s is believed to be the leader of a tightly knit gang using banking Trojans and money mules to earn themselves millions of dollars. The …

With the takedown of the Pushdo/Cutwail, Bredolab and Rustock, the number of “zombified” US computers has decreased so much that the country is no longer …

Credit and debit card data of some 40,000 people who visited the Wilderness Resorts water parks in Wisconsin and Tennessee from December 12, 2008 to May 25, 2011 has been …

On the very eve of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the NBC News Twitter account begun posting messages saying that two civilian airplanes have been hijacked …

GlobalSign – the CA that has been named by the Comodohacker as also compromised and has stopped issuing certificates until it finished investigating these claims – …

Yesterday, GlobalSign announced that it will not be issuing any more certificates until the claims about a breach into its networks made by the “Comodohacker” are …

Whether the claim made by the “Comodohacker” that he has compromised four other CAa besides DigiNotar is true or not, GlobalSign – the only one of those CAs …

For the first time a Norton study calculates the cost of global cybercrime: $114 billion annually. Based on the value victims surveyed placed on time lost due to their …

An interim report issued by security audit firm Fox IT, who has been hired to investigate the DigiNotar breach, reveals that things are far worse than we were led to believe. …

If you needed a confirmation of Google’s claims that the rogue SSL issued by DigiNotar for *.google.com domains was used mainly to mount man-in-the-middle attacks …

The number of rogue SSL certificates issued by Dutch CA DigiNotar has ballooned from one to a couple dozen to over 250 to 531 in just a few days. As Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor …