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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A hacking group that calls itself Team GhostShell this week claimed credit for breaking into servers at 100 major universities from around the world,including Harvard,Stanford,the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. ...
Mozilla launched the first beta version of its browser-independent website authentication system, Persona, on Thursday and hopes to convince the Web developer community to give it a try. The Persona system was first launched as an ...
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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 ...
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European Union cybersecurity agency Enisa has called on service providers and end-users to work together to protect online identities. Passwords protect sensitive information, yet in the first half of 2012 alone, data breaches have ...
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Dropbox said Tuesday one of its employee's accounts was compromised,leading to a raft of spam last month that irritated users of the cloud-storage service. A stolen password was used to access the employee's account,which contained"a ...
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Many global organisations could do a lot more to protect their private data and reduce exposure to attacks by hackers,according to KPMG. More than three quarters of organisations in the Forbes 2000 are leaking data,potentially creating ...
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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 ...
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Security experts say the breach that led to the publication of the login details of more than 453,000 Yahoo and other companies'customers,highlights common enterprise security failings. The hacking group,known as D33Ds Company,said they ...
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Computerworld-Yahoo today confirmed that 450,000 unencrypted usernames and passwords were stolen Wednesday from one of its services,although it downplayed the threat. "We confirm that an older file from Yahoo!Contributor ...
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Computerworld-The U.S.Department of Homeland Security(DHS)has issued an alert warning of vulnerabilities in a software technology called the Niagara AX Framework,used to manage millions of devices over the Internet. The alert,from the ...
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