According to a survey from security training firm PhishMe, employees working from home could be an easy back door allowing targeted attacks to get behind an organisation’s email defences. In a poll of 1,000 UK office workers, 49 ...
Software vendors Microsoft and Symantec have "taken down" the Bamital botnet following a joint investigation lasting more than three years. The operation involved shutting down servers that were being used to control hundreds of thousands ...
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A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in a U.S. prison in a fraud case that prosecutors alleged caused more than $63 million in damages, according to the Department of Justice. ...
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US law enforcement has announced charges against three alleged East European cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the US, including at the space agency NASA. The "alleged international ...
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Google on Friday said Chrome 25, now in development, automatically blocks browser add-ons installed on the sly by other software. The measure mimics what rival Mozilla did for Firefox over a year ago. Auto-blocking has already appeared ...
Computerworld - Ransomware is a growth industry that puts at least $5 million annually into criminals' coffers, Symantec said Thursday. "If you look at the nature of the beast, it really puts the screws to you," said Kevin Haley, director ...
IDG News Service-The notorious malware known as the Conficker worm still infects computers,a sort of wild horse with no rider,but investigators appear no closer to finding its creator. Also known as"Downandup,"Conficker was discovered in ...
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Computerworld-U.S.officials today struck at six long-running scams,freezing assets of 14 companies charged with bilking consumers by posing as tech support from Microsoft,Symantec and others. In a press conference,the Federal Trade ...
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20,000 PCs in the UK could be cut off from the web on Monday 9 July 2012, as a consequence of the DNS Changer virus. Infected machines will no longer be able to access websites, e-mail, chat or social networking sites such as Facebook, ...
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A new variant of a Trojan program called Reveton that prevents victims from using their computers and displays rogue messages from law enforcement agencies is using localized voice messages to trick victims into paying made-up fines, ...
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A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama, but one security vendor is labeling it as low risk. The malware, nicknamed "Dockster," is a backdoor that allows an ...
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Times of India reported that the state government paid over INR 69.36 lakh from the state exchequer to lawyers in the last four years to fight cases of steel and mines department pending in courts. Mr Rajanikanta Singh minister of ...
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1. How to protect trade secrets and processes? The best thing your company can do is to only disseminate trade secrets to those who have a need to know the information. When outsourcing manufacturers you may consider separating your ...
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Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams. Security researchers from Symantec have detected a new email spam ...
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The Olympic Games in London have sparked interest from fraudsters, with a raft of sites supposedly offering live video streams of events, according to security vendor Trend Micro. Trend Micro called out on Sunday more than a dozen sites ...
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