cybercrime

Attackers are increasingly leveraging the power of search engines, like Google, to successfully carry out automated cyber attacks against vulnerable websites, according to …

The website of Hong Kong’s stock exchange has been hit by a DDoS attack and trading has been suspended as the site in question is used for publishing announcements by …

Less than four months after the breach that affected some 200,000 Citigroup customers comes the news that the personal data of 92,000 Citi Cards Japan users has been …

After the recent hacking of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik Behring’s Twitter account, it seems that the same group of hackers has also decided to compromise two of …

It has been another busy weekend for the AntiSec initiative. First Anonymous and LulzSec released a 10GB data dump consisting of the information pilfered from the servers of …

ISACA commends the Ponemon Institute’s latest “Cost of cybercrime” report for the detail it provides on the indirect costs of IT security attacks, as well as …

A simple error message returned by a server to which a malware sample was trying to connect revealed to Dell SecureWorks researchers the origin of the RSA attack, says Joe …

Sophos has released its Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report, which reveals that since the beginning of 2011, the company has identified an average of 150,000 malware samples …

The alleged LulzSec member arrested last week by the e-Crime Unit of London’s Metropolitan Police on the Shetland Islands has a name: Jake Davis. He is 18 years old …

Was LulzSec member Topiary arrested yesterday by the e-Crime Unit of London’s Metropolitan Police? “The man arrested is believed to be linked to an ongoing …

Phishers are becoming more sophisticated criminal marketers, according to a report by IID which documents a quarter that was a watershed for data breaches, from large-scale …

Even though the FBI started serving search warrants and arresting people suspected in participating in the Anonymous’ “Operation Payback” way back in …