Shopping or banking online depends on trust. Individuals interact with sites that they trust, and sites have to trust the person who is transacting with them. Many online banking sites are turning to two-factor authentication to confirm ...
Tags: Banking fraud, education issue, online banking, trust
About five years ago Genomic Health began to introduce cloud-based business applications. Ken Stineman, senior director of enterprise architecture and security, quickly became aware of the security risks these apps posed. CSO contributor ...
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The problem of ransom malware has reached epidemic proportions and could be extracting fraudulent payments from as many as 3 percent of victims, a Symantec report has calculated. In a world already afflicted by botnets, banking Trojans ...
Tags: botnet, cyber security, cybercrime, malware, Malware ransome, profits
Ireland top least-malware-infected nations for the first time PandaLabs, Panda Security's antimalware laboratory, today published its Quarterly Report for Q3, analyzing the IT security events and incidents from July through September ...
Bank employees, not customers, are now the main target of financial cyber attacks, according to the FBI. In a warning issued earlier this week, it said the latest trend by cybercriminals is to get employee login credentials, using spam ...
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Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cyber criminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from security consultancy ...
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IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major U.S.banks,security firm RSA warned. In an advisory Thursday,RSA said it has ...
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The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) has put U.S. banks on high alert against cyberattackers seeking to steal employee network login credentials to conduct extensive wire transfer fraud. The alert warns ...
Tags: Cybercrime, Hacking, U.S.Banks, IT security
Mobile device management (MDM) is not about security, according to Eric Green, senior vice-president of business development at security firm Mobile Active Defense Partners. "There is no security in MDM; its ability to secure a device is ...
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Mobile malware has surged this year,with Android smartphones and tablets by far the most likely to be attacked.That's according to data released by security software provider McAfee in its second quarter threats report. The number of ...
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Oracle has finally acknowledged and acted on a zero-day Java exploit that has presented a serious risk to users of all Java-equipped internet browsers for the past week. Recognising "three distinct but related vulnerabilities and one ...
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More than two-fifths of companies worldwide have failed to prepare for cyber threats, a survey from security company Kaspersky Lab has revealed. Some 41% of more than 3,300 IT professionals polled in 22 countries – including 200 in ...
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Infoworld - When it comes to IT security, FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) is more than just the tool of overhyping vendors hoping to sell their next big thing. It is the reality that seasoned IT security pros live in, thanks in large ...
Tags: IT security, FUD, Paul Ferguson, antivirus scanner
Smartphones running Google's Android operating system(OS)have been hijacked by a botnet,according to a Microsoft researcher. Researcher Terry Zink said he had come across spam being sent from Yahoo e-mail servers by Android ...
Tags: Smartphones, Google's Android OS, Microsoft researcher, botnet