The US faces a growing threat from trade secret theft by foreign hackers and needs to apply new legislation and diplomatic pressure in order to protect American businesses. That's what a White House spokesman told the press at an event to ...
Tags: US, trade secret theft, diplomatic pressure
More than 1,500 credentials for PayPal accounts are on sale in an eShop-style website set up by cybercriminals. The site, discovered by Webroot's Danco Danchev, is selling 1,543 PayPal account details, 14 of which belong to UK customers ...
Tags: cybercriminals, eShop-style website, PayPal
Oracle released new Java security updates on Tuesday and announced plans to accelerate the release of future Java patches following recent attacks that have infected computers with malware by exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in Java ...
China is by far the most aggressive, but not the only, country attempting the sort of extensive cyberespionage described in security firm Mandiant's dramatic report, released this week. Several other countries, most notably Russia, are ...
Tags: cyberespionage, information technology, communications sectors
The day it acknowledged company-owned Macs had been hacked using a "drive-by" Java exploit, Apple on Tuesday patched the Oracle software for older systems and released a malware detection tool. The Apple-issued "Java for Mac OS X v10.6 ...
A report by Gartner predicts that the number of sophisticated attacks on e-commerce and financial industries will increase in 2013. According to Gartner, during these incidents attackers will send out targeted commands to the memory of ...
Tags: e-commerce industrie, financial industrie, applications
United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron has used this week’s trade trip to India to sign a cyber security deal with the country, over fears that U.K. customer and company data off-shored to Indian companies could be vulnerable to ...
Tags: India, UK, Security Deal
A new report traces a large cybersecurity threat group to China's People's Liberation Army, specifically a unit that goes under the cover name "Unit 61398." Security company Mandiant said in a report released Tuesday that an Advanced ...
Tags: Report, Cyberspying Group, China's Army
Burger King saw a surprising upside after its Twitter account was compromised on Monday: tens of thousands of people began following its account. Those people may have started following the burger chain's feed in hopes of seeing more ...
Tags: Burger King, Twitter account, servers
China has strenuously denied claims it has stolen data from US companies in a series of planned cyber attacks, and counter-claimed that it has suffered attacks originating in the US. Earlier this week, Madiant Corp, a US-based security ...
Tags: cyber attacks, Google, computers
Twitter is urging its account holders to be smarter with their passwords following two recent attacks by hackers directed at Burger King and Jeep that took control of those accounts. The accounts for Burger King and the Chrysler-owned car ...
Tags: Twitter, account security, Internet
Apple on Tuesday said that some computers belonging to its employees had been targeted by hackers originating from China – the same group, reportedly, that last week infiltrated computers belonging to Facebook employees. ...
Adobe on Saturday said it would release an emergency patch for two Reader zero-day vulnerabilities this week. Hackers have already been exploiting the bugs using rigged PDF documents sent as email attachments. "Adobe plans to make ...
Tags: Adobe, Windows, viewing software
IDG News Service - Facebook said Friday it had been the target of a sophisticated hacking attack but that it had no evidence any user data had been compromised. The attack comes two weeks after Twitter asked 250,000 of its users to reset ...
Apple says it has been hit by hackers who wormed their way into the California company's system but evidently failed to steal any data. The maker of iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macintosh computers said it is working with law enforcement ...
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