A security researcher published on Friday another attack on Facebook’s Instagram photo-sharing service that could allow a hacker to seize control of a victim’s account. The attack was developed by Carlos Reventlov around a ...
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Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for outages to several government websites last night. Various Twitter accounts that belong to the group were awash with the claims yesterday,including Anonymous Operations,an account ...
In a Q&A with press at the RSA European conference today,RSA executive chairman Art Coviello revealed how criminals and nation states are working together to launch cyber attacks. Further reading RSA:No successful attacks on customers ...
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RSA,the security arm of storage corporation EMC,today claimed that not one of its customers has been the victim of a successful cyber attack in the past 19 months. Speaking at RSA Conference Europe 2012,RSA president Tom Heiser said that ...
American International Group (AIG) has introduced CyberEdge business risk and insurance cover in the Middle East to negate the threat of cyber-attack to a company. AIG MEA Region Professional Indemnity head Juliette Pettit said, ...
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IDG News Service-Microsoft launched a new anti-piracy campaign in China to highlight the security risks of buying counterfeit software. In a recent investigation,Microsoft purchased 169 PCs from shops in China and found that all were ...
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Defence contractor Lockheed Martin has warned that the danger from cyber-attacks has increased significantly, after it recorded a big rise in the number of threats to its own systems. The firm, the Pentagon's number one defence supplier, ...
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Amazon suffered another embarrassment as web services hosted at its Virginia datacentre were subject to an outage, bringing websites of a number of high-profile customers down, and for not the first time. The cloud infrastructure was hit ...
Nearly two-thirds of UK citizens back pre-emptive cyber strikes on foreign states that pose a credible threat to national security,a survey has revealed. However,46%of those believe it depends on the level of threat posed,according to a ...
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Government spy agency GCHQ has unveiled a cyber incident response scheme that is intended to help public-sector organisations that form part of the UK's critical national infrastructure in dealing with cyber attacks. The pilot scheme, ...
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The IT supporting the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics was hit by cyber attacks every day during the Games,including some that were well organised and automated and one in particular that was a major assault. London 2012 CIO Gerry ...
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Executive chairman of security firm RSA Art Coviello has hit back at rivals who have claimed to have snapped up some of RSA's customers since it was the victim of a cyber attack,describing the claims as"baloney". RSA,the security arm of ...
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Cyber crime costs UK organisations an average of £2.1m a year each, according to the 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime study by the Ponemon Institute. The cost of attacks on UK organisations range between £400,000 and £7.7m, the ...
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The websites of several Swedish government agencies were knocked offline on Friday. The website failures coincided with threats by hacktivists, claiming to be members of the Anonymous collective, to launch a cyber attack against Swedish ...
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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. ...
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