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Commercial banks and their customers are facing a wave of renewed activity from attackers, experts with Guardian Analytics maintain.
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You likely could have predicted that when a sex tape of a former beauty queen surfaced, related cyber-attacks would not be far behind.
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RSA took a look inside the other end of a cyber-crime operation - the mules shipping merchandise overseas after attackers have purchased it with stolen credit card information.
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Traditional defenses aren't adding up when it comes to stopping Web-based threats, but cloud-based services may help, researchers contend.
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After cutting off the notorious Mega-D botnet, researcher with FireEye are attempting to find out just how massive the zombie network might have been.
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Year-ahead security landscape predictions are not immune to the theory of unified cultural creep. But, on the flip side, they're already here.
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Security researchers at Cyveillance uncovered a massive attack abusing Google search results to direct users to sites hosting rogue anti-virus.
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A new survey from the Ponemon Institute suggests that a lack of collaboration between IT security and operations teams is impacting security.
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Applications Security Inc. has produced an online miniseries that aims to detail the plight of today's IT security workers. But is the show true to life, or not nearly quite as desperate?
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The Koobface botnet has a new trick up its sleeve - it can now automate the process of registering an account, confirming an e-mail address and joining random Facebook groups.
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A new consumer survey shows that attitudes regarding biometrics are changing as interest in the technology grows in response to identity theft.
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A new attack outlined at the ToorCon conference last month allows attackers to use vulnerabilities on Web site subdomains to reach the parent domain.
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Attackers are now working to tailor new threats to online news trends on a daily basis using indicators including Google Trends.
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The Facebook phishing campaign landing in your in-box is more than just a social networking password thieving scheme, according to researchers with McAfee.
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A Dutch teenager has backed away from plans to extort users of jail-broken iPhones in Netherlands. The teen had compromised the phones via their default root password.
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According to research from McAfee, the number of file sharing sites hosting copyrighted content has increased 300 percent in the past few months.
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Experts have unwrapped the Elite Loader botnet only to find that it's a pretty sophisticated attack. And that it's becoming even easier for less advanced attackers to get their hands on such threats.
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Researchers are seeing an uptick in new phony delivery notice attacks, with more fake AV Trojan threats mixed in for good measure.
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Hactivism is showing signs of advancement as protesters employ opt-in botnets and other new means to bring their collective influence to bear in the electronic domain.
