cybercriminals
Engineer jailed for turning PIN Entry Devices into skimmers
A German electronics engineer has been sentenced to three years in a UK prison for having modified a number of PIN Entry Devices to record the information used to clone credit …
Analysis of 250,000 hacker conversations
Imperva released a report analyzing the content and activities of an online hacker forum with nearly 220,000 registered members, although many are dormant. This forum is used …
Offers from domain resellers evade spam filters
The Internet has created a great amount of business opportunities – most of them legal, some not and some that fall in the gray area between the two extremes. An example …
4 million identity fraud victims in the UK
Identity fraud continues to rise with 4 million victims in UK alone – yet consumers continue to be complacent with their identities. According to research commissioned …
Sesame Street YouTube channel hacked
Followers of the Sesame Street YouTube channel have had a nasty surprise when they tuned in on Sunday. Instead of the children-friendly videos they were faced with pretty …
When it comes to intrusions, size matters
A survey of enterprise IT managers and network administrators that has been conducted annually since 2005 shows that there has been a gradual increase in smaller enterprises …
Trojanized Netflix app steals account login credentials
When Netflix released an Android client app earlier this year, it also witnessed the attempts of various app developers who tried to make a pirated copy of it work on other …
90,000 accounts compromised in new Sony attack
60,000 PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Network accounts and 33,000 Sony Online Entertainment accounts have been compromised during what Sony describes as a testing …
Cyber criminals outsourcing money-collecting to mobile operators
Cybercrime has come a long way since it was mostly a digital form of vandalism. It has developed into a criminal business operated for financial gain and is now worth …
Facebook scammers exploit death of Steve Jobs
PandaLabs detected a malicious link on Facebook that was being used to exploit the news of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Just a few hours after Steve Jobs’ …
The state of hacked accounts
Most users get hacked at high rates even when they do not think they are engaging in risky behavior, with 62% unaware of how their accounts had been compromised, according to …
Malware attacks up due to social media
63 percent of more than 4,000 respondents in a new Ponemon Institute survey said that social media in the workplace represents a serious security risk — yet only 29 percent …