With only a week left to go until Christmas, the iPad mini has been crowned the most looked-for festive gift of 2012. That is according to online shopping website PriceGrabber.co.uk, which based its findings on website analytics for 1 ...
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The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA) has launched an initiative to pool cyber crime intelligence from business, government, law enforcement, security agencies and IT security professionals. Called Project 2020, the ...
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Every minute another person in New Zealand becomes a victim of cybercrime according to a new report which claims there are 556 million victims worldwide every year after the two NRI jailed for a major cyber fraud case revealed in this news ...
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Future warfare could be fought by soldiers using bullets and bombs as well as people hunched over laptops according to experts in cyber conflict. The analysis comes in response to a recent article, titled “U.S. Admits to Cyber ...
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A growing army of malware delivery networks, known as malnets, account for two thirds of all cyber attacks, and security firm Blue Coat claims most current technologies offer an inadequate response to the threat, according to new analysis. ...
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EMC said today it has agreed to buy privately-held start-up Silver Tail Systems, a vendor of real-time web session intelligence and behavioural analysis. EMC plans to use the purchase to beef up its RSA security division in the rapidly ...
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Popular online social networking site Tumblr was ravaged on Monday by an Internet worm that spewed racist and inflammatory messages across thousands of user accounts. The malicious hacking group known as GNAA claimed responsibility. The ...
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The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticised new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. Of most concern ...
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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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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 ...
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Risk management software company Wynyard Group has opened an office in Dubai to serve its growing customer base in the Middle East, it announced today. Wynyard Group provides advanced software solutions for operational risk management, ...
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Insurance broker R K Harrison has teamed up with Stroz Friedberg, a global digital risk management firm, to offer complimentary pre-incident consulting services for clients purchasing cyber liability policies through R K Harrison. Apart ...
Check Point Software Technologies plans to introduce document security software that encrypts and controls access to files across an organization's various departments and also meets the growing need for corporate users to access company ...
Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
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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 ...
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