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Old people
Why the older generation is an attractive target for cybercriminals

People aged 55 and over are behaving insecurely online and often become the victim of fraud, according to Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. The survey questioned 12,546 …

Yahoo
Yahoo breach was not state-sponsored, researchers claim

The massive 2014 Yahoo breach isn’t the work of state-sponsored hackers as the company has claimed to believe, say researchers from identity protection and threat …

password
The psychological reasons behind risky password practices

Despite high-profile, large-scale data breaches dominating the news cycle – and repeated recommendations from experts to use strong passwords – consumers have yet …

Europol
Europol identifies eight main cybercrime trends

The volume, scope and material cost of cybercrime all remain on an upward trend and have reached very high levels. Some EU Member States now report that the recording of …

ATM
Biometric skimmers: Future threats to ATMs

Kaspersky Lab experts investigated how cybercriminals could exploit new biometric ATM authentication technologies planned by banks. While many financial organizations consider …

danger
Surge in polymorphic attacks and malicious Android apps

Users are over 20 percent less likely to encounter malware and other undesirable executable files than in 2015. The data, collected by Webroot, shows that, although the number …

find
UK online banking customers are back on fraudsters’ radar

Hot on the heels of the Ramnit Trojan delivery campaign targeting customers of six UK banks comes one delivering the Qadars Trojan. The targets, again, are customers of UK …

download
Malicious torrents management tool uncovered

InfoArmor researchers have uncovered Raum, a tool that is used by Eastern European organized crime group “Black Team” to deliver malware to users through malicious …

danger
Ransomware families and volume of attacks continue to rise

Both the number of variants of ransomware and volume of malware attacks were on the rise in August, according to Check Point. During August, the number of active ransomware …

GCHQ
Can an automated defence network protect Britain from low-level threats?

A recent Freedom of Information request found that the number of breaches reported to the ICO in the last 12 months has nearly doubled from the previous year, so something …

skull
Five ways to respond to the ransomware threat

The ransomware threat has taken a sharp upturn this year. In fact, a recent industry study found that nearly half of all U.S. businesses have experienced at least one …

Arrest
Two arrested for allegedly hacking senior US government officials

Andrew Otto Boggs, aka INCURSIO, and Justin Gray Liverman, aka D3F4ULT, were arrested on charges related to their alleged roles in the computer hacking of several senior US …

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