Cybercrime
Is the UK’s Ministry of Defence really the Ministry of Data Loss?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Yet another UK “data loss” scandal has erupted, with the shocking news that “up to” 700,000 defence personnel have been exposed to whoever has an unencrypted hard drive with all of this personal information.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Yet another UK “data loss” scandal has erupted, with the shocking news that “up to” 700,000 defence personnel have been exposed to whoever has an unencrypted hard drive with all of this personal information.
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Watch out for fake Microsoft “Security Update” email
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Online criminals are once again trying to fool computer users into loading malware onto their computers, this time using an email with a “security update” attached, purporting to be from Microsoft.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Online criminals are once again trying to fool computer users into loading malware onto their computers, this time using an email with a “security update” attached, purporting to be from Microsoft.
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YouTube “malware” sites threaten web users
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A warning has gone out that fake YouTube pages are loading malware onto users’ computers - how can you protect yourself?!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A warning has gone out that fake YouTube pages are loading malware onto users’ computers - how can you protect yourself?!
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Millions at risk from massive organized eCrime attack
By: Davey Winder
With credentials relating to 200,000 servers, and more than 80,000 legitimate sites known to have been compromised, could this Neosploit driven attack be one of the biggest organized eCrime operations ever?
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By: Davey Winder
With credentials relating to 200,000 servers, and more than 80,000 legitimate sites known to have been compromised, could this Neosploit driven attack be one of the biggest organized eCrime operations ever?
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How not to get hacked like Sarah Palin
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The news that Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo webmail account was hacked is all over the Internet. Your webmail could be hackable in the same way – here’s how to make it much harder for the hackers.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The news that Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo webmail account was hacked is all over the Internet. Your webmail could be hackable in the same way – here’s how to make it much harder for the hackers.
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Giving identity thieves and hackers the big finger – protect yourself!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
What should you do to protect yourself, your computer, your online accounts and your digital self from being hacked? As with all protective measures, there’s no one single “magic bullet” solution, but instead, layers of protective technologies and practices that you need to employ to thwart the “bad guys” on multiple levels. Please read on.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
What should you do to protect yourself, your computer, your online accounts and your digital self from being hacked? As with all protective measures, there’s no one single “magic bullet” solution, but instead, layers of protective technologies and practices that you need to employ to thwart the “bad guys” on multiple levels. Please read on.
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Cyber DefCon 5: Georgian Internet Under Attack, Russians Blamed
By: Davey Winder
Cyber DefCon 5 is defined as being effective when malicious nation to nation attacks with the intent to destroy communication infrastructures as well as disable business processes occur. Georgia is at a state of Cyber DefCon 5. No prizes for guessing who is doing the attacking...
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By: Davey Winder
Cyber DefCon 5 is defined as being effective when malicious nation to nation attacks with the intent to destroy communication infrastructures as well as disable business processes occur. Georgia is at a state of Cyber DefCon 5. No prizes for guessing who is doing the attacking...
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Learn how to write your own malware
By: Davey Winder
As if malware is not already a big enough problem with script-kiddies and a thriving underworld market in readymade malware exploit kits adding to the agony. One university is now actively teaching students how to write viruses properly...
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By: Davey Winder
As if malware is not already a big enough problem with script-kiddies and a thriving underworld market in readymade malware exploit kits adding to the agony. One university is now actively teaching students how to write viruses properly...
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Oh Lord, make the banks pay for cybercrime
By: Davey Winder
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is urging the Government to introduce legislation to make banks pay for cybercrime coupled with a data security breach disclosure law for the UK.
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By: Davey Winder
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee is urging the Government to introduce legislation to make banks pay for cybercrime coupled with a data security breach disclosure law for the UK.
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IBM, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft & Juniper team to secure the net
By: Stuart Corner
Five of the biggest names in IT - IBM, Intel, Microsoft and arch-rivals Juniper Networks and Cisco have banded together to fight Internet security threats, just a month after the Malaysian Government put up $US13m to create an international partnership against cyber terrorism.
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By: Stuart Corner
Five of the biggest names in IT - IBM, Intel, Microsoft and arch-rivals Juniper Networks and Cisco have banded together to fight Internet security threats, just a month after the Malaysian Government put up $US13m to create an international partnership against cyber terrorism.
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Warning: IT staff snooping on confidential data!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Do you trust your IT staff to do their jobs and mind their own business? If so, you could be in for a scandalous shock, as a third of whom have inexplicably volunteered in a survey that they’re looking at highly confidential data, sometimes even after they’ve left the company. Time to be alert – and alarmed!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Do you trust your IT staff to do their jobs and mind their own business? If so, you could be in for a scandalous shock, as a third of whom have inexplicably volunteered in a survey that they’re looking at highly confidential data, sometimes even after they’ve left the company. Time to be alert – and alarmed!
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The world must unite to fight malware, says OECD
By: Stuart Corner
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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By: Stuart Corner
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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[UPDATE]Adobe Flash Player exploit unpatched and in the wild
By: Mike Bantick
A Zero-day exploit has been identified that redirects the Adobe Flash Player to malware infected servers. The threat is expanding.
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By: Mike Bantick
A Zero-day exploit has been identified that redirects the Adobe Flash Player to malware infected servers. The threat is expanding.
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Here comes version 8.0 of AVG Anti-Virus Free!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Arguably the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, Grisoft’s AVG, has just been upgraded, set for free download from Friday, the 25th of April. We’re sure AVG’s servers are about to get hammered even harder as millions of AVG 7.5 users take advantage of the new version!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Arguably the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, Grisoft’s AVG, has just been upgraded, set for free download from Friday, the 25th of April. We’re sure AVG’s servers are about to get hammered even harder as millions of AVG 7.5 users take advantage of the new version!
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Australia becoming a totalitarian state with email snooping to become the norm?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland wants to let employers snoop on employees emails – without the consent of workers – as an anti-terrorism measure. Where do we draw the line on privacy?
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland wants to let employers snoop on employees emails – without the consent of workers – as an anti-terrorism measure. Where do we draw the line on privacy?
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Tumbi Umbi man takes tumble with law - 500,000+ child porn images found
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A 41 year-old man from Tumbi Umbi has been charged over a range of child pornography offences. Police executing a search warrant found over 500,000 alleged sexually explicit images and videos of children.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
A 41 year-old man from Tumbi Umbi has been charged over a range of child pornography offences. Police executing a search warrant found over 500,000 alleged sexually explicit images and videos of children.
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Pitcairn Islands a cesspit of spam, Australia in 85th spot
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The US, Russia and China aren’t in the top 10 countries ‘relaying the most spam per capita’, with the Pitcairn Islands rocketing to number 1, as Australia drops from 33rd spot to the vastly lower 85th position – but not as low as China.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The US, Russia and China aren’t in the top 10 countries ‘relaying the most spam per capita’, with the Pitcairn Islands rocketing to number 1, as Australia drops from 33rd spot to the vastly lower 85th position – but not as low as China.
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CNET stops IFRAME site attacks - who's next?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Dancho Danchev, security expert, has uncovered more sites under IFRAME attack, although this time the sites in question have been quick to fix the vulnerabilities to protect their users.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Dancho Danchev, security expert, has uncovered more sites under IFRAME attack, although this time the sites in question have been quick to fix the vulnerabilities to protect their users.
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