Mastercard is piloting a scheme where smartphone GPS systems are used to authenticate purchases for travellers – which could spell an end to the frustrating and common experience where cards are blocked instantly when used abroad.
Pirated versions of popular Mac apps, spread via torrent sites, try to infect your computer with malware… and steal Bitcoins.
Businesses in America have increased security spending after the wave of high-profile cyber attacks late last year, including the Target breach – and most U.S. companies expect such attacks to increase over the next two years.
Following the ground up overhaul of the BlackBerry operating system and accompanying launch of their new flagship smartphones last year, we wondered how they really stack up–security wise–against the other smartphones you might already have in your pocket or purse right now. How do new devices running Blackberry 10–as the new OS is called–compare to
If you have received an unexpected email, claiming to come from British Airways, about an upcoming flight that you haven’t booked – please be on your guard.
Online criminals are attempting to infect innocent users’ computers, by disguising their attack as an e-ticket from the airline.
Trading has been suspended on the Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox and its website has closed, amid rumors that the exchange has lost 744,000 Bitcoins in an online theft – worth around $350 million at Monday’s trading prices, according to Wired
The official websites of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Earth Hour Philippines have been hacked and defaced by Indonesian based hacking group Gantengers Crew. Hackers left a deface page along with a message on both hacked websites. The reason for targeting these sites was not explained anywhere. The deface message was expressed in following words: Gantengers Crew Hacked […]
Researchers have demonstrated an attack that completely bypasses the protections offered by EMET – a Microsoft toolkit used to provide safeguards against zero-day attacks, according to Ars Technica.
Samsung has introduced fingerprint-scanning security as standard into its new flagship Galaxy S5 handset – with Finger Scanner offering secure shopping via Paypal direct from the handset in stores and websites, with a finger-swipe replacing passwords.
There are lots of ways that hackers can steal your passwords, and use them against you. So what can you do to fight back?
Screenshot of the deface page left by the hackers EC- Council Website of the Security Certification Group got defaced with passport of Snowden. Passports of 60,000 US military and government IT professionals at risk. The EC-Council website http://www.eccouncil.org which is basically an international council of the E-commerce consultants has been defaced this past Sunday evening. The hacker […]
A large majority of routers used in small offices are plagued with security vulnerabilities – with up to 80% of small office/home office models having critical security weaknesses, according to a survey by Tripwire.
Hackers who stole hundreds of thousands of card details from upscale retailer Neiman Marcus set off more than 60,000 security alerts – but these were all missed by security staff at the company, according to a report by Bloomberg Businessweek.
In order to demolish North Korean nuclear facilities, South Korea has decided to develop its own cyber attack tools. Stuxnet kind of weapons have been proposed by the country’s defense ministry, the same Stuxnet software which was designed to target and destroy Iranian nuclear plants. Yonhap news agency reported that: The South Korean military will carry out missions using […]
In this blog post, we provide an in-depth analysis of Linux/Ebury – the most sophisticated Linux backdoor ever seen by our researchers. It is built to steal OpenSSH credentials and maintain access to a compromised server.
More than 300,000 records of faculty, staff, students, and affiliates of the Maryland University were breached, according to the University’s president. In a written note to the students and faculty, Wallace D. Loh, the president, confirmed that no financial records, academic, health or contact information were compromised and the hack was confined to personal information […]
It’s not just fake tech support: call centre cold-callers are operating various kinds of insurance scams, too.
Smartphone dating app Tinder revealed more about its users than they might have wished over a period of several months last year – revealing their location to other app users to an accuracy of around 100 feet, according to The Verge’s report.
Did you know that medical data on 20,000 people may be exposed to abuse today? As a healthcare practitioner, you may not be aware of the value of the data in your care, but criminals certainly are.
The increasing use of QR codes as a way to add interactive elements, apps and websites to display advertising, competitions or print magazines could pose a risk to smartphone users, Australian researchers at Murdoch University have warned
Syrian Electronic Army, the pro- Bashar Al Assad Syrian hackers, hacked the official twitter accounts of Futbol Club Barcelona (FC Barcelona) and sent several tweets from three official accounts of the club. Screenshot of SEA’s latest hack The compromised accounts included Spanish, Catalonian and English handles where all the posts contained link to the profile of […]