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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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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Online cyber criminal markets are putting very sophisticated attack tools into the hands of more low-level attackers, say cyber intelligence specialists. More attackers are now getting their hands on tools like Zeus and SpyEye, according ...
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More than two-fifths of companies worldwide have failed to prepare for cyber threats, a survey from security company Kaspersky Lab has revealed. Some 41% of more than 3,300 IT professionals polled in 22 countries – including 200 in ...
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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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Legacy smart electrical power grids are a prime target for cyber attack and security needs to be built into these critical systems, a study has found. The most prevalent cyber threat reported by the global energy sector is extortion, ...
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