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The new European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) based at Europol headquarters in The Hague will be officially launched on Friday, January 11, and will be the focal point in the …

When the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FISAA) was extended for another 5 years thanks to a majority vote in the U.S. Senate late last year, there …

Corporate risk prevention consultancy Riskskill, a division of UKFraud, has opened the New Year with a list of what they believe are the 8 biggest corporate risk hotspots …

This week, MPs on the Defence Select Committee have produced a report stating that the UK’s armed forces are now so dependent on IT that they could be “fatally …

Although the total number of payment cards (debit and credit) issued in the EU in the previous 12 months reached over 726,000,000 – card fraud has actually been on a …

The EU’s cyber security agency ENISA has published the first Cyber Threat Landscape analysis of 2012, summarizing over 120 threat reports. The report identifies and …

As enhanced efficiency, employee productivity and the reduced burden on IT teams continue to drive adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), a recent survey of more than 500 …

The EU’s cyber security agency ENISA has investigated the challenges for baseline smart grids protection in Europe. This new report assists smart grid providers to …

56 suspected members of a major network of payment card fraudsters (38 in Bulgaria, 17 in Italy and 1 in the Netherlands) have been arrested in a coordinated raid across …

Detectives from the Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) arrested three people in connection with using ransomware to blackmail people. It has been alleged that computer users …

The U.K. Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit has arrested three individuals that have allegedly participated in a scheme to defraud Internet users by making them …

A new comparative survey by The Ponemon Institute explores the motivations behind IT security spending among UK and US organizations, and how industry regulations, data breach …