The technique of using deception and manipulation to gain sufficient knowledge to dupe an unwary individual, employee or company into revealing personal information has the potential to be one of the biggest security threats in 2013 ...
Tags: big data, cloud, Gartner, social engineering, Windows
Security threats to your mobile device such as malware, fraudulent lures such as SMS spoofing, and toll fraud, are all becoming favourites of digital crooks as people move away from using PCs and toward smartphones and tablets, according to ...
Tags: cybercrime, mobile devices, mobile security, PC, tablet
Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain Dew, looking for public-facing IP addresses. When they found one, they enumerated the advertising services (Web server, ...
A researcher at North Carolina State University has uncovered a vulnerability that could be exploited to send deceptive text messages from some Android devices, as part of a phishing scheme. Particularly worrisome is the fact that the ...
Tags: Android, Phising, SMS, Android devices
Michael Dell today walked out in front of five thousand people in the home of Dell – Austin, Texas – and delivered his keynote for DellWorld 2012 saying that despite the calming results of Dell’s year, the company is ...
Tags: big data, Bill Clinton, Dell, DellWorld, Michael Dell, PC
Some virtualisation admins are slow to update VMware’s patches because they are afraid their app functions won’t work, however patches fix vulnerabilities and are a risk that must be taken. Despite potential threats to a ...
More than half of office workers don’t follow their company’s IT security policies, or aren’t even aware of the policies, according to survey results collected by Xerox and McAfee. The joint data survey held by the two ...
Tags: Embedded Control software, IT security, malware, McAfee, Viruses, Xerox
Dell has introduced new software solutions aimed at helping organisations simplify IT, mitigate risks, and accelerate business results, in response to customer needs. In line with the company’s customer-inspired, end-to-end ...
Facebook has restricted the rate at which users can perform phone number searches on its mobile website in order to block a recently disclosed method of harvesting phone numbers. “The ability to search for a person by phone number ...
Tags: Accounts, Facebook, highlightedpost, Mark Zuckerberg, Passwords, security
The U.S. government needs a comprehensive doctrine addressing cyber security instead of the current patchwork of policies and agencies dealing with cyber threats, according to a group of experts. The lack of an overarching cyber security ...
Half of companies worldwide lack knowledge about potential security threats they may face, a global IT risks survey has revealed. Almost a third of more than 3,000 IT professionals, including 200 from the UK, polled by security firm ...
It has been reported that detectives from the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have arrested three people in connection with using ransomware to blackmail people. It has been alleged that computer users were targeted and led to believe ...
Tags: PCeU, ransomware, blackmail people
The U.S.and China are likely to resolve the conflict over potential security threats from Huawei Technologies'network equipment without a trade war,Cisco Systems chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. A U.S.Congressional report ...
Nearly two-thirds of UK citizens back pre-emptive cyber strikes on foreign states that pose a credible threat to national security,a survey has revealed. However,46%of those believe it depends on the level of threat posed,according to a ...
Tags: UK citizens, cyber strikes, security information event management firm
Nearly a quarter of worldwide internet users are still running outdated browsers, creating huge gaps in online security, a study has revealed. Out of a random sample of 10 million customers, security firm Kaspersky found 23% were using ...
Tags: browsers, outdated browsers, online security, Kaspersky, security threats