A new virus potentially from the same group that developed Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame has been uncovered by anti-virus software vendor Kaspersky Labs. Called 'Gauss', the malware 'spies' on financial transactions, according to the company, ...
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German engineering firm Siemens has issued a fix for the software vulnerabilities in its programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that were exploited by Stuxnet. The computer worm was discovered in 2010 when it caused malfunctions at ...
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Government-sponsored cybercriminals are using hacking techniques to steal commercial secrets from businesses,KPMG has warned. Confidential information,including product designs and bid documents,are at risk from states seeking to win ...
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The UK national Cyber Security Challenge has launched another competition aimed at finding software developers to defend critical national infrastructure. The move comes in response to an increasing number of cyber-attacks aimed at ...
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The U.S. government -- minus key spy operations -- spent $11.36 billion to protect classified data in 2011, according to the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) The number has increased substantially over the past decade, from ...
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Businesses are largely failing to block hackers from exploiting privileged IT accounts to access sensitive commercial data, a survey has revealed. Some 63% of more than 400 IT staff polled across Europe agreed that recent cyber attacks ...
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