MARKHAM,Ont.—Crime Stoppers,the public awareness and crime tip reporting program,has a new focus this year:cargo theft. During a ceremony to celebrate January being International Crime Stoppers month,Crime Stoppers of York Region ...
Tags: Cargo Theft, Cargo
The Target credit and debit card and personal information breach, which last week was revealed to have affected more consumers than originally thought and which may be linked to attacks on other retailers, is expected to prompt U.S. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Security, Protection, Target credit card, debit card
Smarter, more efficient electricity meters aim to revolutionise energy distribution but WA researchers fear hackers could easily exploit numerous security flaws and wreck havoc on power grids. Smart meters measure a customer's electricity ...
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The feared Cryptolocker ransom Trojan has infected at least a quarter of a million PCs worldwide, a success rate probably generating somewhere in the low millions of dollars in ransom payments, a new analysis by Dell SecureWorks has ...
As one of the most serious, but often most misunderstood, retail loss prevention issues, return fraud costs retailers billions of dollars every year. According to NRF's 2013 Return Fraud Survey completed by loss prevention executives at ...
Tags: Apparel, Textile, Holiday Economy
On any given day cybercriminals and nation states are in possession of as many as 100 zero-day software exploits known only to them, NSS Labs has calculated using the commercial vulnerability market as a baseline. NSS Labs research ...
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The holiday season can be marked by an uptick in crime as people are away from their homes to visit family and friends, attend parties, and be present for performances and social events. The criminal element is well aware of the numerous ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Security, Protection
A new type of Trojan horse computer virus could result in mass attacks on banks, exposing the personal details of an unprecedented number of online banking customers. Discovered by security software provider Kaspersky Labs, the Neverquest ...
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The UK's biggest companies are not considering cyber risks in their decision making, according to a new survey from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The survey, dubbed the cyber governance health check, was sent by the ...
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The U.K.’s intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has reportedly built an automated system to track the hotel bookings of foreign diplomats when travelling abroad for international summits or work meetings. ...
The FBI has offered large rewards for information that could help them catch a clutch of alleged cyber-criminals. They include an El Salvadoran national accused of selling a Trojan designed to spy on husbands or wives believed by their ...
Malicious software aimed at stealing online banking credentials surged in the third quarter of this year to a level not seen since 2002, according to a new report from Trend Micro. The security vendor said it counted more than 200,000 new ...
Security researchers have uncovered two unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) which have been exploited by attackers in an unusual “watering hole” campaign launched from a U.S.-based website that specialises in ...
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Before the Qing Dynasty, both Chinese men and women would wear their hair in a coiled bun and use a hairpin to keep it in place. And women's hair ornaments were more exquisite than men's. A variety of women's hairpin styles were recorded in ...
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The Silk Road online marketplace has resurfaced about a month after U.S. officials shut down the website that was only accessible through the Tor anonymity service. They had arrested Ross William Ulbricht - who was alleged to be the ...
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