Prolexic Technologies, a firm specializing in the protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attacks, announced in their quarterly report, that “downloadable mobile apps” have been used…
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A recent security breach – reported to have been exclusively against retail giant Target – has now been discovered to be a “cyberattack campaign” which…
Researchers at Positive Technologies, the information security firm, discovered vulnerabilities which could let hackers gain access to specialty utility systems in “many industrial plants” and maliciously “shut…
According to a recent article published by IT Wire, intelligence gathered by technology industry experts confirms that both “cyber crime and financial crime” will be…
Multiple industry experts have reportedly withdrawn from next month’s highly regarded RSA Conference in San Francisco due to reports of the sponsor’s controversial and deliberate use…
Researchers at Websense, a San Diego-based company specializing in computer security software, have reported that the Microsoft’s error and crash reporting system for Windows is “prone to hacking” – allowing…
The world’s largest and oldest broadcaster, the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), became the next victim of cyber attack as their servers were accessed by a…
RSA Security, LLC. has been paid approximately $10 million by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to “install bugs into the company’s encryption software so that…
The retail company Target announced that customer personal identification number (PIN) information “had not been breached” after 40 million customer credit and debit card records were stolen recently,…
A group called the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, established by the federal government after the National Security Agency’s (NSA) questionable foreign intelligence practices…