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Fraud losses increase by 20% in the past 12 months

Theft of information and electronic data at global companies has overtaken physical theft for the first time, according to the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report. The study …

A cyber criminal’s key to vulnerable systems

New, advanced evasion techniques (AET) that can pose a serious threat to existing network security systems worldwide, according to Stonesoft. These AET threats significantly …

ZeuS gang using malicious LinkedIn spam targets Charles Schwab accounts

The recently started LinkedIn spamming campaign that delivers the ZeuS Trojan – or, according to some, the Bugat Trojan – has been tied to a gang that uses the …

Week in review: Cloud security, patching challenges and RSA Conference 2010 news

Week in review: Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews, articles, reviews and podcasts: A foolproof drive-by-download blocking …

Government agents following suspects on social networks

The issue of whether or not government or law enforcement agents are or should be allowed to go “undercover” on social networks is not a new one, but thanks to the …

ZeuS developers up the ante with beefed up variant

ZeuS has for a while now been almost a synonym for banking Trojans of every shape and form. Some say that the attention that the information security community has focused on …

BlackBerry patches Enterprise Server

A vulnerability in the BlackBerry Attachment Service component of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server could allow a malicious individual to cause buffer overflow errors, leading …

5 tips for protecting against spam attacks

Whether you’re at work or at home, spam causes headaches and wastes time, forcing you to trawl through your inbox to work out which mail is legitimate and which is spam. …

One in five spam messages comes from the U.S.

Sophos published the latest report into the ‘Dirty Dozen’ spam-relaying countries, covering the third quarter of 2010. Since the second quarter this year, the spam …

Android SMS Trojan variant targets Russian users

It worked for the first two times, why wouldn’t it a for third? It’s likely that the same scammers who were behind the previously discovered Android Trojan …

Photos: RSA Conference Europe 2010

RSA Conference Europe 2010 at a glance: keynotes, presentations, mingling on the expo floor.

Microsoft’s Network compromised, used to route traffic to spam websites

Microsoft has confirmed that two network devices on its network have indeed been compromised and were being used by criminals to route traffic to more than a thousand websites …

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