Cyber criminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large phishing campaigns, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Forty-seven percent of all ...
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European Union politicians are at loggerheads following a vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday that rejected proposals to store and share information on airline passengers. The Parliament's civil liberties committee voted against ...
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Big data is not yet being embraced, according to Adrian Asher, chief information security officer (CISO) of the Skype division at Microsoft. Asher told delegates at Infosecurity Europe 2013 that big data is currently just a buzzword used ...
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The German firm AV-TEST today stood by the results of its search engine investigation that claimed Microsoft's Bing shows five times the number of malware-hosting websites than Google in its results. On Friday, Microsoft called AV-TEST's ...
The UK continues to struggle against cyber criminals with no clear victory in sight. That's what the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee heard from the cyber security industry as experts gave evidence about e-crime. "I don't think the ...
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With federal and state investigators searching for clues about the person or organization behind the Boston Marathon bombing, social networks could hold a treasure trove of information. "I would imagine that the authorities are casting a ...
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Microsoft has discovered an unusually stealthy Trojan capable of deleting the files it downloads in order to keep them away from forensics investigators and researchers. The Trojan downloader,?called Win32/Nemim.gen!A, is the latest ...
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Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting small businesses due to their less sophisticated defences, according to a new report from Symantec. Companies with 250 employees or less absorbed 18 percent of targeted cyber attacks in 2011, but ...
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Checkpoint Systems, a leading global supplier of shrink management, merchandise visibility and apparel labeling solutions for the retail industry, announced that it is launching MetalPoint HyperGuard, a new digital, software-driven solution ...
Facebook Home, the new app that replaces the home screen on an Android smartphone, should be banned from corporate networks to avoid unnecessary security risks, experts say. Facebook introduced Home on Thursday, aiming to give its 1 ...
A privacy watchdog has filed a lawsuit contending the FBI has failed to provide requested technical information about a biometric identification database expected to be the largest in the world. The Electronic Privacy Information Center ...
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Citing concern for patient and staff safety, officials at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center have installed bulletproof glass around the emergency department's reception desk. The hospital was the site of a run-in in July between two ...
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Citing concern for patient and staff safety, officials at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center have installed bulletproof glass around the emergency department's reception desk. The hospital was the site of a run-in in July between two ...
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The campaign, which is running in national newspapers and magazines, features a print-out of an email obtained by JTI in which an unnamed official at the Department of Health requests an impact assessment from an Australian counterpart of ...
Security firm Symantec has found that banking Trojan Shylock – malware which aims to infect computers – is currently targeting more than 60 financial institutions, the majority of which are in the UK. In a blog, the firm ...
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