The Syrian Electronic Army is continuing its campaign to highjack the Twitter accounts of high-profile media outlets, with the Financial Times becoming its latest victim.
17 May 2013
Barracuda Networks, eyeing Google’s move to unify storage across its products, has increased the amount of free cloud storage for its own Copy online file syncing users, from 5GB to 15GB.
16 May 2013
The European Union could soon consider a proposal that would give law enforcement the ability to engage in “offensive hacking,” i.e., compromise private infrastructure and systems to gather information via spyware, delete data or even take servers offline completely when there is probable cause to suspect cybercriminal activity.
16 May 2013
Smart ticketing and electronic fare sales for public transportion may not seem an obvious target for a cyber-crook at first glance, but when you consider all the credit card transactions and contactless payments flying around, e-security emerges as a big concern, particularly when it comes to the cards themselves.
15 May 2013
Infosecurity Europe has released basic figures on last month’s eighteenth annual exhibition and conference: pre-ABC audit figures show a 6% increase in visitors over 2012 to 13,200, with more than 70 new exhibitors.
15 May 2013
A new crop of Mideast-originated cyberattacks are targeting the American energy sector, with the intent of sabotage, not just espionage.
13 May 2013
As many as 58.2 million American adults had at least one malware infection that affected their home PCs’ features or performance in the past year – a fact that collectively cost nearly $4 billion for repairs.
13 May 2013
A global gang of hackers managed to siphon off $45 million from ATMs thanks to outdated US credit card technology.
10 May 2013
Attackers exploiting Adobe’s ColdFusion app server made off with 160,000 Social Security numbers, and gained access to the driver’s license numbers and names of up to 1 million people logged in the Washington State court system in a data breach that was recorded over February and March.
10 May 2013
Despite high-profile warnings by security researchers, a majority of organizations are failing to enact recommended best practice security policies around one of the primary targets of advanced attacks – privileged accounts.
09 May 2013