Cyber criminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security researchers from Symantec. Three months ...
Tags: Black Market, malware, Proxy, Symantec, Computers
Several malicious Android apps designed to steal mobile transaction authentication numbers (mTANs) sent by banks to their customers over SMS (Short Message Service) were found on Google Play by researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky ...
Tags: Computer Products, Apps, SMS, Google Play
More American adults use their smartphones and other cell phones to take pictures and to send texts than to download apps or do online banking, according to a Pew Research survey. The study, released Sunday, found that 82% of Americans ...
Tags: internet, Internet banking, Picture messaging, Smartphone survey
IDG News Service - Project Blitzkrieg, a coordinated attack against U.S. banking customers allegedly planned for the spring of 2013, is a real and credible threat, security researchers at McAfee have said. A cybercriminal using the ...
Tags: Computer Products, Credible Threat, Mcafee, Blitzkrieg E Banking Heist
An international research team based in Bristol, UK has reportedly developed a new quantum chip that could enable the creation of ultra-fast computers and unhackable mobile phones, according to a report in the Financial Times. The report ...
Tags: Bristol scientists, Quantum chip, scientists, silicon chips
A cyber gang thought to be based in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is recruiting dozens of people to participate in a scheme to steal millions of dollars from 30 major U.S. banks, according to RSA. The organisers are thought ...
Tags: cyber crime, cyber criminals, highlightedpost, Trojan, banks
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest customers are still facing technical issues as an IT failure continues to cause havoc for the banking group. Bank customers first found their RBS and NatWest services were unavailable at lunchtime ...
Tags: RBS, NatWest, technical issues, IT failure
A team of researchers from two German universities has released a study asserting that many of the most popular free apps available through the Google Play store may be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks — seriously threatening ...
Tags: Android, google play, highlightedpost, mobile, privacy, researchers
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Natwest customers are still having issues with their bank accounts, as the technical problems causing havoc at the banking group enter their fifth day. In a statement last night, RBS admitted it had only ...
Tags: RBS, bank accounts, software failures
Alexandria,Virginia,United States of America(Free-Press-Release.com)November 15,2012--On Thursday,November 8,2012,CommonWealth One Federal Credit Union dedicated its Harrisonburg Regional Branch to John Blair,former President and ...
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More American adults use their smartphones and other cell phones to take pictures and to send texts than to download apps or do online banking,according to a Pew Research survey. The study,released Sunday,found that 82%of Americans use ...
Tags: mobile phone, app, USA, Pew Research survey
The latest milestone to be reached in Nationwide's GBP1bn five-year IT transformation sees the launch of its mobile banking service as the project moves towards the final straight. The building society launched its mobile banking service ...
Tags: Mobile Banking, building society, internet bank, virtual desktops
IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
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Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
Tags: Anonymous, hacker group, HSBC, distributed-denial-of-service attack