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Man stole special agent’s identity, executed a complex identity theft scheme

Rohit Jawa, 25, formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with eight counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.Based on …

PoS malware hit 54 Starwood luxury hotels

Starwood Hotels & Resorts, the international hotel chain that owns and operates hotels under the Westin, Sheraton, W Hotels, St. Regis, and Le Méridien brands, has …

Perspectives on the state of Internet security

In today’s digital world terms like hacker and worm are widely recognized. But in November 1988 remote breaching was unheard of, at least until the Morris worm was …

The top 7 improvements in Nmap 7

Nmap 7 is the product of three and a half years of work, nearly 3200 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 6 release in May 2012.The top 7 …

Users find backdoors to do their job

Balabit unveiled the results of its pan-European survey into the current state of IT security. The survey looked at how organisations balance IT security and business …

Week in review: Mainframe security, cross-device tracking, and how online fraud will evolve in 2016

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles:Android adware tricks users into giving it power to secretly download …

ISIS operation security guide gives insight into group’s cybersecurity practices

Do ISIS terrorists use encryption, and if so, what tools do they favour?The Combating Terrorism Centre (CTC), an academic institution at the US Military Academy in West Point, …

Android adware tricks users into giving it power to secretly download other apps

Earlier this month Lookout revealed the existence of three adware families – Shuanet, ShiftyBug and Shedun – that secretly root Android devices and are extremely …

New Dyre variant can target Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge users

As Microsoft continues to push Windows users towards adopting the latest version of the popular OS, malware authors have started adding support for it. Heimdal Security …

PwnBin: A script for scraping Pastebin for leaked API keys, SSH credentials

Pastebins, apart from being a great help for programmers as they offer a place where one can store text online for a set period of time and share it with others, are also …

How online fraud will evolve in 2016

While 2015 is drawing to a close, the security fraud community is preparing for more battles ahead in 2016. And next year, consumer-facing web and mobile apps are up against a …

40% of companies expect a data breach next year

Clearswift released their annual Clearswift Insider Threat Index (CITI) exploring why firms have been slow to address internal security threats and including data from …

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