Morgan Stanley fires insider who leaked client data on Pastebin
Global financial services firm Morgan Stanley has announced on Monday that it has fired an employee of its Wealth Management Group following the theft of “partial client …
Toshiba releases FlashAir III wireless SD card
Toshiba introduced the FlashAir III wireless SD card, a third generation memory card that serves as its own wireless LAN access point, allowing users to share images, videos …
Gogo in-flight WiFi service serves fliers fake Google certs
Gogo, a noted provider of in-flight broadband Internet service, has been spotted serving a fake Google SSL certificate to fliers trying to access YouTube, effectively …
Moonpig shamed for not fixing customer data exposing flaw
Moonpig, a popular UK-based firm that sells personalised greeting cards, has put the personal and financial information of over 3 million of its customers in danger by using a …
Rails security scanner Brakeman 3.0.0 released
Brakeman is an open source vulnerability scanner specifically designed for Ruby on Rails applications. It statically analyzes Rails application code to find security issues at …
Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp suspends service in wake of compromise
UK-based bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has temporarily suspended its service in the wake of an attack. “We have reason to believe that one of Bitstamp’s operational …
Phish out WPA networks’ password with Wifiphisher
Greek computer geek George Chatzisofroniou has released a stable version of Wifiphisher, a tool aimed at automating phishing attacks against WPA networks in order to discover …
Scandinavian banks hit with DDoS attacks
The new year started poorly for Finnish bank OP Pohjola Group and its customers: the latter have been prevented from executing their online banking transactions by a DDoS …
Number of cyber attacks on retailers drops by half
Despite an 50 percent decline in the number of attacks against U.S. retailers, the number of records stolen from them remains at near record highs. IBM Security researchers …
The hidden dangers of third party code in free apps
Research from MWR InfoSecurity has shown the various ways hackers can abuse ad networks by exploiting vulnerabilities in free mobile apps. When people install and use free …
Top Facebook scams and malware attacks
Millions of people fell for Facebook scams in 2014. Though security experts, companies and tech-savvy users guard against Facebook cyber attacks, many unwary users continue to …
Digital crime landscape in 2015
Based on its work this year in the fields of cyber security and financial crime, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence and Scott McVicar, its Managing Director of Cyber Security, …
Featured news
Resources
Don't miss
- Popular code formatting sites are exposing credentials and other secrets
- Fake “Windows Update” screens fuels new wave of ClickFix attacks
- Microsoft cracks down on malicious meeting invites
- How an AI meltdown could reset enterprise expectations
- The breaches everyone gets hit by (and how to stop them)