Up to 40,000 Web sites have been hacked to redirect unwitting victims to another Web site that tries to infect PCs with malicious software, according to security vendor Websense.
Jeremy Kirk |
03 Jun |
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Kaspersky Lab's latest mobile security software due to be released next week can wipe data with a text message command even if a thief has swapped out the phone's SIM card.
Jeremy Kirk |
28 May |
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Even if your spouse doesn't know your e-mail password, he or she probably knows enough information to get it.
Jeremy Kirk |
20 May |
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Enterprises increasingly feel their employees will be more willing to steal data or sell insider knowledge due to the poor economy, according to an annual security survey conducted by KPMG.
Jeremy Kirk |
25 Mar |
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A group dedicated to fighting phishing scams has developed a way for police and other organizations to report e-crimes in a common data format readable by a Web browser or other application.
Jeremy Kirk |
12 Mar |
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Security vendor McAfee will give grants to a European and a U.S. organization to better train law enforcement and legal officials to deal with cybercrime.
Jeremy Kirk |
11 Mar |
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IBM's Zurich research laboratory has developed a USB stick that the company says can ensure safe banking transactions even if a PC is riddled with malware.
Jeremy Kirk |
04 Mar |
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A study of 57 Web site hacks from last year showed that 24 percent were aimed at defacing a site rather than financial gain.
Jeremy Kirk |
27 Feb |
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British authorities said Thursday they won't prosecute a hacker who would prefer to face trial in his own country rather than face extradition to the U.S.
Jeremy Kirk |
27 Feb |
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Data breaches are costing companies more than ever as consumers shun those that have lost information, according to a new study.
Jeremy Kirk |
03 Feb |
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Web sites rigged with malicious code are becoming more numerous by the day, but the time those sites are online is declining, according to new research from security vendor AVG Technologies.
Jeremy Kirk |
28 Jan |
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A British hacker who sought to find evidence of UFOs on U.S. military computers has another chance at avoiding extradition after a court ruling Friday.
Jeremy Kirk |
27 Jan |
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Symantec and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team are warning about a serious vulnerability within the company's AppStream product, used for steaming applications from a central server to thin-client desktops, though a patch has been released.
Jeremy Kirk |
19 Jan |
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More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the U.S., a figure that underscores continuing difficulties in securing information, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
Jeremy Kirk |
08 Jan |
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Swedish police are unraveling a scheme where criminals stole credit card details by tampering with a point-of-sale (POS) terminals at a Toys R Us store in Malmö.
Jeremy Kirk |
17 Dec |
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