Children as young as 11 years old are developing malicious code to steal personal information from online gamers, according to antivirus software provider AVG. The Q4 2012 Community Powered Threat Report reveals some schoolchildren have ...
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Computer security guru Professor Ross Anderson has criticised the European Union's proposed computer security directive which, he says, represents "yet another unfortunate step towards the militarisation of cyberspace". EU security ...
There are "lots of things Google could do" to protect users of the Android platform from malware infection via the company's Play Store, says cyber security firm AVG's virus lab head, Pavel Krcma. "They could start scans of new packages ...
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US President Barack Obama has finally signed a much-anticipated executive order to protect key elements of the country's critical infrastructure against cyberattacks. Covering power plants, water utilities and other high-profile targets, ...
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Security watchdogs are now worried about a new attack vendor that cybercriminals could take advantage of – the growing number of devices that routinely use the Internet to function. Machine-to-machine (M2M) security is closely ...
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A disgruntled employee, angry at missing out on a pay rise, conducted a three-year campaign of sabotage against his company's computers by spraying the cleaning product Cillit Bang into the grills of the servers. Credit controller Edward ...
A String of cyber attacks on major US media outlets has intensified worries over Chinese hackers, who analysts say are probably linked to the secretive Beijing government. The attacks, part of a series of incidents traced to Chinese ...
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Google chairman Eric Schmidt has labelled China a menace to the internet, complicit in the use of cyber-crime as part of efforts to undermine its corporate and political opponents. The claims are made in his upcoming book, The New Digital ...
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A quarter of a million Twitter accounts have been compromised by hackers, according to the social network. This follows similar attacks on the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times in the last two weeks. Analysis: Why Twitter may ...
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Enterprise security managers have yet another worry to add to their list: cyberwarfare attacks. Now, in addition to guarding against targeted attacks from cybercriminals and activists, enterprise security managers must increasingly guard ...
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a non-profit public-private partnership focused on helping all digital citizens stay safer and more secure online, is officially kicking-off Data Privacy Day today along with Federal Trade ...
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The UK has joined 25 countries in committing to a set of principles intended, they claim, to make digital networks more secure and resilient. Foreign secretary William Hague signed the World Economic Forum's Partnering for Cyber ...
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As the Senate prepares to take another stab at passing a comprehensive cyber security bill, a new report shows the number of cyber attacks growing dramatically from China. China has accounted for the largest percentage of attacks since ...
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Cloud hosting company FireHost has claimed that cross-site scripting attacks increased by an estimated 160 per cent in the final quarter of 2012. The company claims that it has detected a spike in what it calls a "superfecta" of attempted ...
The European Commission’s latest cyber security strategy has been slammed by a member of the European Parliament, who accused the strategy of being “incoherent and lacking in focus” on Thursday. The Cyber Security ...
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