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Three indicted for breaching Email Service Providers, monetizing stolen data
Viet Quoc Nguyen and Giang Hoang Vu, both citizens of Vietnam who resided for a period of time in the Netherlands, have been indicted on Friday for their role in a massive …
UK: 57 arrested for cyber crime, including US DoD hacker
Last week was a busy one for UK law enforcement, as agents from the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) of the National Crime Agency (NCA) spearheaded a nationwide cyber crime …
Anthem refuses comprehensive IT security audit after the breach
Recently breached US health insurer Anthem has refused to let The Office of Personnel Management’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) perform a full security audit of its …
Mandarin Oriental suffers credit card breach
Mandarin Oriental, the hotel group managing luxury hotels and resorts in Asia, Europe, the US and Latin America, has confirmed that “the credit card systems in an …
Banking Trojans target nearly 1,500 financial institutions
Nine of the most common and sophisticated financial Trojans in use are targeting 1,467 financial institutions in 86 countries, says a Symantec report compiled after the …
Medical identity theft affected two million victims in 2014
The number of patients affected by medical identity theft increased nearly 22 percent in the last year, an increase of nearly half a million victims since 2013. In the five …
The business and social impacts of cyber security issues
With multiple recent high profile attacks targeting household names and large employers, individuals increasingly fear cyber crime and its resulting consequences at work as …
New DDoS attack and tools use Google Maps plugin as proxy
Attackers are using Joomla servers with a vulnerable Google Maps plugin installed as a platform for launching DDoS attacks. A known vulnerability in a Google Maps plugin for …
3 million strong RAMNIT botnet taken down
The National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) worked with law enforcement colleagues in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany, co-ordinated through …
CTOs targeted with tax-themed phishing emails carrying malware
Tax-themed phishing emails targeting CTOs of tech companies have been spotted by researchers at Talos, Cisco’s security intelligence and research group. The initial …
Is the Internet hiding a crime wave?
The U.S. crime rate continues to fall, according to the latest FBI’s release based on Uniform Crime Reporting from police departments, but researchers say those numbers, …
Credit card info stolen in BigFish Games site compromise
Seattle-based casual gaming company Big Fish Games has has its site and personal and financial information of some of its users compromised in an attack that started on last …
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