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Pimpin’ ain’t easy, and neither is recovering from cybercrime. That’s why Snoop Dogg decided to help spread the word about ways to prevent identity theft and other nefarious online practices. The legendary LBC rapper held court inside a Symantec Corporation 18-wheeler across from Bryant Park on Tuesday, where he spoke with press about his experiences [...]
It’s just asking for trouble to describe an encryption system as ‘unhackable – and now a Norwegian team claims to have cracked what’s been hailed as the ultimate in secure communications, quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography makes use of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle – observation causes perturbation – to reveal eavesdropping on an optical fiber. Any [...]
A man accused of being one of the most prolific sellers of credit-card data has been charged with participating in the brazen hack of RBS WorldPay in 2008 that funneled about $9.4m out of the payment processor in just 12 hours. Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, was already in the custody of French police following his [...]
By TJ McIntyre An attack last week on the Central Applications Office (CAO) website left thousands of worried students unable to gain access to the site to accept their third-level offers. Reports suggest that this was a ‘denial of service’ attack: an attack which floods a website with fake traffic, slowing it down or causing [...]
The African Centre for Cyber Law and Cyber Crime Prevention has been launched in Naguru, a Kampala suburb. The centre, set up by the United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (UNAFRI), in conjunction with the International Association of Cyber Crime Prevention (AILCC), is based in France. It is [...]
Cybercrime is on the rise, according the report released by Panda Security, the makers of Panda Antivirus Pro 2011. The finding, based on a survey of 1,532 American businesses and 7,938 global companies, revealed that the 2 percent uptick in cybercrime can be attributed to poor security practices. According to Panda, 36 percent of U.S. [...]
Reports of cybercrime went up by around 1,000 among Swiss users last year compared with 2008. Of the 7,541 internet-related instances reported in 2009, the majority dealt with pornography and spam. The number of complaints about hardcore pornography rose the most dramatically to 1,364 while those related to spam remained stable at 1,496. Fraud cases [...]
The U.S. for the first time is publicly warning about the Chinese military’s use of civilian computer experts in clandestine cyber attacks aimed at American companies and government agencies. In a move that is being seen as a pointed signal to Beijing, the Pentagon laid out its concerns this week in a carefully worded report. [...]
Viruses and other malware have long been a threat to computers only. But as smartphones become too smart for their own good, the bad guys are targeting them more and more with viruses. And as has already happened with computers, the smartphone assault is expected to be led by cybercrimimals aiming to turn a profit. [...]
The online security firm Sophos is warning of a growing threat to consumers as scammers turn to social networks on the internet. The company’s 2010 mid-year security report says as more people and businesses sign onto online social networks cybercriminals are using them more frequently to steal data and download malicious software. The report says [...]
