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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) in partnership with Microsoft has identified music as a veritable tool to tackle the menace of cybercrime in Nigeria. The partnership has already begun to collaborate with some top young Nigerian artistes to pass anti-cybercrime messages to youths across the country. The first leg of the collaboration was [...]
Wondering just how someone stole your identity and went to Bloomingdale’s? It could have had something to do with your recent hotel stay. Recent cybersecurity research has shown a spike in incidents targeting hotels and resorts. Happy travels! According to Nicholas Percoco, a cybersecurity researcher for the security firm Trustwave, “The hospitality industry was the [...]
The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed legislation to provide nearly $400 million in funding for cyber security research over the next four years. The Cyber security Enhancement Act was passed with a 422-5 majority, and is expected to face little opposition from the Senate. Its overall aim is to speed up the development [...]
Speaking on Good Morning America this morning during a report on the terror threat, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke pegged cyberthreats as just as, if not more, serious than the next iteration of the underwear bomber. “Every day major corporations in the country lose their intellectual property, their corporate secrets, without even knowing it, to [...]
The world’s largest Internet search company and the world’s most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cyber security. Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer [...]
The successor program to the notorious Zango spyware Toolbar is being used to target users of Mozilla’s Firefox with fake browser updates, a security company has alleged. According to a warning put out by eSoft, the reprised Hotbar app, run as of May last year by a new entity called Pinball Corp, is being fed [...]
Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant. But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They’re pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers with those of [...]
Over the past year America’s hotels have had some uninvited guests: a wave of increasingly sophisticated invasions by organized cybercriminals. That’s one finding of a report that cybersecurity researcher Nicholas Percoco plans to present Tuesday at the Black Hat security conference in Arlington, Va. His data shows a spike in hacking incidents that successfully targeted [...]
Consumers looking for stronger safeguards on personal computers and protection from identity theft can now receive both — all at once. LifeLock, Inc. The industry leader in identity theft protection, has expanded its variety of service offerings available to members through a recent partnership with Symantec. In an effort to take aim at crimes that [...]
Members of the Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) have completed an annual cybercrime fighting drill, further refining their anti-cybercrime tactics. The drill, aimed at testing the response capabilities of leading Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs) from the Asia Pacific economies, had Cybersecurity Malaysia playing the role of exercise co-ordinator for the third [...]
