The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has launched another competition aimed at finding software developers to defend critical national infrastructure. The move comes in response to an increasing number of cyber-attacks aimed at ...
Tags: software, national infrastructure, UK
Fraudsters exchanged 12 million pieces of personal information online in the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 300% since 2010, according to credit-checking firm Experian. The company said many people were unaware their identity had ...
Tags: Online Identity Theft, credit-checking, credit cards, passwords
Government-sponsored servers designed to keep DNSChanger-infected PCs and Macs online were switched off earlier today as scheduled,but several major U.S.Internet service providers downplayed problems to their customers. The number of IP ...
Tags: ISPs, substitute servers, DNSChanger, malware
The US Federal Trade Commission(FTC)has filed a complaint against hotel group Wyndham Worldwide and three subsidiaries for claims that it failed to secure customer data. The Wyndham Worldwide hotel group includes a range of brands such as ...
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Law enforcement officers have arrested six people in the UK and 12 in the US in an FBI-led sting operation that netted a total of 24 credit card cyber fraudsters in 13 countries. The arrests follow a two-year undercover FBI investigation ...
Tags: FBI-LED Sting Operation, Law enforcement officers, UK, Credit Card Data
Tata Communications has announced a network connecting financial institutions across some of the world's biggest cities. The network aims to offer low-latency connections to financial companies through a single network from one provider. ...
Tags: Tata Communications, network, data transfer, Global Financial Hubs
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are struggling to keep IT infrastructure up to date with mobile working and the increasing volume and sophistication of cyber threats, a survey has revealed. Most SMEs (92%) now need to support remote ...
Tags: SMEs, IT infrastructure, mobile working, cyber threats
Six members of a UK cyber fraud organisation have been jailed for selling identity theft kits online after pleading guilty at Southwark crown court. The gang members,who provided fake identities and documents to thousands of ...
Tags: Cyber Fraud Organisation, Fake Documents, Pleading Guilty
A hacker has posted 6.5 million encrypted passwords from LinkedIn on the internet. Sophos researchers have confirmed that the file posted on a Russian web forum contains LinkedIn passwords. Hackers are working together to decrypt ...
Tags: hacker, passwords, LinkedIn passwords, e-mail addresses
In 2011, Trapped by the global sluggish economy, the Chinese Foreign Trade business circumstances was not very optimistic. Due to the economic situation has still not improved yet, people in the industry are predicting this year's Foreign ...
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