American Express (Amex) has synced with Twitter to enable its cardholders to tweet specific hashtags to purchase products online. Amex's technology, dubbed Card Sync, had initially been launched in March 2012 to deliver couponless savings ...
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Children as young as 11 years old are developing malicious code to steal personal information from online gamers, according to antivirus software provider AVG. The Q4 2012 Community Powered Threat Report reveals some schoolchildren have ...
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Computer security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the European Union's proposed computer security directive which, he says, represents "yet another unfortunate step towards the militarisation of cyberspace". EU security ...
Adobe has released an emergency patch to fix at least two zero-day vulnerabilities being used to install malware in its Flash Player software that could allow attackers to control affected systems. Hackers had exploited security loopholes ...
There are "lots of things Google could do" to protect users of the Android platform from malware infection via the company's Play Store, says cyber security firm AVG's virus lab head, Pavel Krcma. "They could start scans of new packages ...
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US President Barack Obama has finally signed a much-anticipated executive order to protect key elements of the country's critical infrastructure against cyberattacks. Covering power plants, water utilities and other high-profile targets, ...
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Adobe has been forced to investigate reports of a zero-day security flaw in its Reader and Acrobat software that leaves users vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The exploit was discovered by researchers at network security firm FireEye, who ...
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Security watchdogs are now worried about a new attack vendor that cybercriminals could take advantage of – the growing number of devices that routinely use the Internet to function. Machine-to-machine (M2M) security is closely ...
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Following its latest threat report, security firm AVG has noted a “disturbing” new trend in the world of cybercrime – children with enough programming skills to code and distribute their own malware. The company said it ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed an executive order, which will require federal agencies to share cyberthreat information with private companies, creating a cybersecurity framework focused on reducing risks to companies ...
RSA last week launched its Security Analytics solution in the UAE, promising to leverage big data in order to provide the visibility and context required to help defend against advanced security threats. The new Security Analytics fuses ...
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Software titan Microsoft and computer security giant Symantec sat they have smashed a hacker-infected computer network that was hijacking internet searches.
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27 million new malware strains found in 2012, at an average of 74,000 new samples per day BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, February 08, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- PandaLabs, the antimalware laboratory of Panda Security, has released its 2012 Annual ...
In a security landscape report released on Tuesday, security software maker F-Secure claimed that 2012 was the "year of the exploit". F-Secure, which focused on cyber threats during the second half of 2012, noted that the Internet has ...
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A disgruntled employee, angry at missing out on a pay rise, conducted a three-year campaign of sabotage against his company's computers by spraying the cleaning product Cillit Bang into the grills of the servers. Credit controller Edward ...