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New whitepaper on cybercrime, systemic risk and global securities markets

The Research Department of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published a joint Staff Working Paper, with the World Federation of Exchanges …

INTERPOL and Trend Micro to collaborate against cybercrime

Trend Micro is to collaborate with INTERPOL, the world police body, to support global law enforcement programmes to combat cybercrime. The announcement is the latest in …

12 trends in privacy and security

First identified as an industry issue a decade ago, data breaches are now part of the consumer vocabulary. Data breaches have evolved from credit card fraud with financial …

EU adopts stricter penalties for cyber criminals

Cyber criminals will face tougher penalties in the EU, under new rules adopted by Parliament on Thursday. The draft directive, already informally agreed with member states, …

Cyber espionage moves out of the shadows

During the first half of 2013, AppRiver screened more than 15 billion messages, nearly 13 billion of which were spam and another 171 million that carried viruses. Once again, …

Litecoin-stealing Trojan found

Bitcoin is the most popular, but not the only crypto currency out there. As interest in and use of other ones rises, malware that tries to steal particular types of currencies …

Lulzsec hacker Davis freed, back on the Internet

Jake Davis (aka Topiary), the former Lulzsec hacker and spokesman, has been released from the Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution, where he spent 37 days following his …

International cooperation in the fight against cybercrime

Today’s cyber threats are becoming increasingly more targeted and sophisticated with criminal networks operating across the world, coordinating complex attacks against …

Former student gets 3 year in jail for hacking university network

29-year-old Joseph Camp, a former student of the University of Central Missouri, was sentenced to three years in federal prison without parole in federal court today for his …

Report on crime against businesses ignores cybercrime

A new Home Office report finds that the number of crimes committed against wholesale and retail business premises has fallen significantly over the last ten years – from …

U.S. legislators introduce Aaron’s Law

As the Internet’s influence on global commerce, culture and information continues to tread new ground, there is a need to update and reform outdated laws that threaten …

Cybersecurity is a business imperative

While cybercrime threats are on the rise, current attempts to counter them remain largely unsuccessful. According to the 2013 State of Cybercrime Survey report, organizations …

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