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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The government will spend £2m a year until 2014 on a cyber security advice centre that aims to improve international co-ordination, increase access to expertise and promote good governance online. The "Centre for Global ...
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A security researcher known for finding Java bugs has uncovered a new critical zero-day vulnerability in all currently-supported versions of the popular Oracle software. The bug,which was publicly reported on the Full Disclosure security ...
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UK domain registrar 123-reg is helping website owners to protect themselves and their visitors with a new tool that identifies and helps remove malicious code from legitimate websites. According to the latest Anti-Phishing Working Group ...
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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 ...
Tags: Cybercrime, Hacking, U.S.Banks, IT security
Cyber criminals from eastern Europe pose just as big a threat as their more high-profile east Asian rivals, says security firm Trend Micro. Research has shown that east European hackers tend to use custom-built, highly-complex malware. ...
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The US is collecting huge amounts of data on its citizens, according to former National Security Agency (NSA) official Bill Binney. While at the NSA, Binney led the development of secret software he now believes is being used to carry out ...
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Microsoft has found several PCs,manufactured in China,to have had malware installed by cyber criminals. Microsoft's digital crimes unit stumbled across the malicious software during an investigation into Chinese manufacturers in August ...
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De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester is launching a centre dedicated to cyber protection and the growing need for effective systems in the face of a growing cyber crisis. The creation of the Cyber Security Centre (CSC) is a direct ...
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We are entering a new age of cyber threats and need to change our approach to cyber defence, according to Roger Thompson, chief emerging threats researcher at ICSA Labs. "We need to stop relying on signature-based scanning systems," ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has slammed as"technologically incompetent"the Draft Data Communications Bill,which will make it easier for security and police services to spy on e-mails,phone calls and internet activity of UK citizens. ...
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The value of data to cyber criminals Plan for cyber attacks Defence in depth against cyber attack Comprehensive approach to APTs Stuxnet,Duqu,Flame,and Gauss have nothing to do with businesses that are not involved in finance and critical ...
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A flaw found in Apple's iPhone that can allow text messages to sidestep Apple's safeguard is"severe",according to an iPhone security researcher. In a blog post,the researcher,named Pod2g,said that the issue could mean that cyber criminals ...
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Researchers have confirmed the existence of new Mac malware just hours before the release of Mountain Lion, the latest version of Apple's OS X operating system. Within hours, researchers at security company Sophos also confirmed an iOS ...
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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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