A hacker group said to be connected to Hamas has claimed responsibility for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on US banks in retaliation to the controversial video "The Innocence of Muslims" posted on Google's YouTube service. ...
Tags: DDoS, US banks, controversial video, Wells Fargo
Security experts believe passwords offer little or no protection from unauthorised access to corporate IT systems and online accounts, and now Intel is working on an alternative. An increasing number of data breaches are being blamed on ...
Tags: Intel, unauthorised access, IT systems, online accounts
Open source blogging tool and content management system WordPress has boosted its security by incorporating the Mydigipass authentication service into its platform. This means owners of the 54 million web and blog sites that have been ...
Tags: WordPress, Mydigipass authentication, Website owners, password encryption
European Union cybersecurity agency Enisa has called on service providers and end-users to work together to protect online identities. Passwords protect sensitive information, yet in the first half of 2012 alone, data breaches have ...
Tags: online identities, sensitive information, personal data, passwords safe
Fraudsters exchanged 12 million pieces of personal information online in the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 300% since 2010, according to credit-checking firm Experian. The company said many people were unaware their identity had ...
Tags: Online Identity Theft, credit-checking, credit cards, passwords