Infosecurity News

  1. Nigerian Bank IT Worker Goes Missing After Multi-Billion Naira Heist

    Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou sought by authorities after $38.6m is stolen

  2. UK Online Banking Fraud Rockets 71% in 2014

    Criminals look to target higher value business accounts

  3. NSA Breached German Telcos to Map the Internet

    Treasure Map operation designed to be a Google Earth for data traffic

  4. US-CERT Warns on Cisco Blade Server Vulnerability

    An unauthenticated, remote attacker could cause a denial of service condition for websites running on the architecture.

  5. US Government Requests Access to Non-Existent Dropbox Accounts

    Online storage firm sees access requests rise but authorities want to keep it quiet

  6. Craigslist Scammers Traced Back to Five Nigerian Gangs

    Over 50% hail from African nation, but many are using US agents, says new research

  7. ICO: 85% of Mobile Apps Failing on Privacy

    Watchdog claims too many applications collect excessive amounts of data

  8. Shakira's Death is Widely Exaggerated

    The pop singer is alive and well—as are malware-serving campaigns concerning her supposed car accident.

  9. Hacker Threatens to Expose Bitcoin Founder Nakamoto After Cracking Email Account

    Pastebin post is said to be genuine, but email account appears to be closed

  10. Machine Learning Platform Slices and Dices Human Chatter for Insider Threat Detection

    Big Data analytics engine can ferret out worrying language and activities at scale.

  11. Five Million Gmail Credentials Leaked to Russian Forum

    Phishing gambits and scams have quickly followed the leak.

  12. SaaS Security Success Needs Board Buy-in – Gartner

    IT security teams also need to transition teams to a more hands-off role, analyst claims

  13. Peter Pan Pegged for Pernicious Panto Phish

    Netizens warned not to open suspicious attachments after pantomime ticket scam

  14. Gartner: Let Staff Get Infected to Improve Security Education

    IT security professionals need to go against their gut to improve risk visibility and change behavior

  15. Salesforce Customers in Dyre Straits After Malware Warning

    SaaS pioneer warns that credential-stealing banking malware may be targeting its customers

  16. Mozilla Ditches 170,000 Sites After Mass Certificate Revoke

    Firefox 32 does not support 1024-bit certificate authority (CA) certificates

  17. UK Mobile Phone Theft Victims Top 740,000

    Apple handsets most in demand, says government

  18. Just One Critical IE Bulletin for September’s Patch Tuesday

    Admins look forward to a lighter round of Microsoft security updates

  19. Feinstein: No Privacy Worries in Cyber Info-sharing Act

    The latest government cybersecurity bill has come under attack.

  20. Vawtrak/Gozi Banking Trojan Poised to Become Major Threat

    New capabilities are expanding the malware's target area and threat level.

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