cybercrime
Cybercriminals increasingly target financial services industry
A report published this week by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has revealed that the financial services sector is the most common target of cybercriminals, with cybercrime …
Ghost in the Wires
Kevin Mitnick accessed computers and networks at the world’s biggest companies – and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone …
Mousetrap Trojan steals money by chain reaction
Catalin Cosoi, Chief Security Researcher at Bitdefender warns of a new Trojan that robs your bank account. The new Mousetrap campaign starts with a Java applet that has been …
Is Ukraine the perfect place for hackers?
What is it that makes the Ukraine such a fitting refuge for hackers and cyber crooks? According to a number of well-informed individuals, it is a combination of inadequate …
“Google Pharmacy” spam hitting inboxes
Google’s name and reputation is once again being misused by spammers trying to trick users into believing that what they are selling is endorsed or approved by the …
25 alleged Anons arrested
25 individuals suspected to be Anonymous members have been arrested during a coordinated international operation supported by Interpol across four countries in Europe and …
Thwarting attacks with genetically-inspired computer configuration systems
In the seemingly unending search for computer security solutions that are both reactive and proactive, researchers have occasionally turned to other sciences for ideas. In …
Horde FTP server hacked, files modified to include backdoor
The developers of the Horde open source software have issued a statement warning its users that a one of their FTP servers was discovered to have been breached and some files …
MasterCard and Silver Tail Systems combat online fraud
MasterCard and Silver Tail System announced a relationship that will enable merchants to differentiate fraudsters from legitimate consumers in real-time during the online …
Hungarian sentenced for hacking, blackmailing Marriot
Attila Nemeth, a 26-year-old Hungarian national who tried to blackmail Marriot International into giving him a job by stealing the company’s internal documents and …
VeriSign hack: Reactions from the security community
VeriSign admitted it was hacked in 2010 and cannot identify what data was stolen. Below are comments on the situation that Help Net Security received from industry veterans. …
Romanian hacker TinKode allegedly arrested
A 20-year old Romanian believed to be “TinKode”, the infamous hacker that has breached the systems and defaced the pages of several government organizations, has …