Dutch dev stole 20,000 passwords from websites he built for businesses
Dutch police have told locals to change credentials for 20,000 email accounts that were found on a web developer’s laptop after he’d been busted for fraud.
Dutch police have told locals to change credentials for 20,000 email accounts that were found on a web developer’s laptop after he’d been busted for fraud.
Not all phishing attacks amount to computer fraud, according to a US insurance firm, which is being sued by bitcoin payments processor BitPay for knocking back its claim.
E-commerce platform Magento has stressed its customers need to update to the latest version of its software following reports of new attacks that could expose credit card details.
Some people who use uTorrent, the popular BitTorrent client, are up in arms over the presence of cryptocurrency mining software on their computers which they say was installed without their permission.
Zach Miners | 07 Mar | Read more
Four U.S. senators have resurrected legislation that would allow consumers to see and correct personal information held by data brokers and tell those businesses to stop sharing or selling it for marketing purposes.
Grant Gross | 06 Mar | Read more
An Israeli security firm has found a security flaw in Alibaba Group's international marketplace that could have wreaked havoc for the scores of merchants on the site.
Michael Kan | 10 Dec | Read more
Chip-and-PIN payment cards have a strong supporter in the hotbed of payment technologies, with San Francisco's district attorney promoting the new technology as a way to cut down on fraud.
Zach Miners | 26 Nov | Read more
It turns out that TRUSTe, the provider of privacy certifications for online businesses, may not be so trustworthy after all. The company failed to conduct annual recertification checks for hundreds of companies holding its privacy seal, despite promising to do so, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has charged.
Grant Gross | 18 Nov | Read more
48% of e-commerce/online retail businesses lost some type of finance-related information to cybercriminal activities within a 12 month period.
Anuradha Shukla | 17 Sep | Read more
On 2 August, apparently for the first time ever, a hacking group coordinated a number of different reflection-style DDoS attacks against a single data centre, the mitigation firm involved, NSFOCUS, has confirmed.
John E. Dunn | 27 Aug | Read more
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach
Avery Buffington, Information Security Architect, SecureNet | 26 Aug | Read more
Data breaches have compromised nearly seven million UK credit and debit cards over the last three years, with breached businesses each paying out almost a million in forensic and remediation costs, payments processor Worldpay has calculated.
John E Dunn | 19 Aug | Read more
Over 70% of respondents to a recent survey in Hong Kong said they did not know how to distinguish a secure website from an insecure one. With online shopping on the rise across the territory and the recent cases of high profile sites being compromised, online security is becoming top of mind for consumers and businesses.
Chee-Sing Chan | 07 Aug | Read more
Airlines accounted for 39 per cent of e-commerce transactions secured by security firm RSA last year but suffered 46 per cent of known purchasing fraud, analysis of data from the company's risk-based authentication system has revealed.
David Braue | 30 Jul | Read more
Hong Kong is one of the safest environments in APAC for online shopping, with fewer than 5% of buyers having fallen victim to fraud, an international survey indicates.
Computerworld Hong Kong staff | 16 Jul | Read more