News tagged with banking information

Automated image analysis arises from handcraft and machine learning

The amount of visual information increases with tremendous speed. The archives of television networks, image bank databases and social media in the web are all bursting with billions of pictures – and more is produced ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Security firm links cyber spy campaign to Chinese hacker

Tokyo-based computer security firm Trend Micro on Friday said it linked a hacker in China to a "cyber espionage" campaign targeting India, Japan, and Tibetans.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hacker thieves targeted Anonymous allies: Symantec

Anonymous on Monday gave mixed reactions to a US computer security firm's report that backers of the notorious hacker group were suckered into downloading software that steals online banking information.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Study reveals implications of the incentive to coordinate among bank lenders

Columbia Business School study shows that a bank reacts more to the same piece of news if it knows that other banks have the same information and hence will be reacting to the news as well.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft anti-virus program evicts Chrome browser

Microsoft raced to fix an anti-virus program that targeted Google's Chrome browsing software as a malicious threat and kicked it off computers.

Technology / Software

created Oct 01, 2011 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 16

7,500 Germans rally for greater data privacy

Some 7,500 people demonstrated Saturday in Berlin to express their concerns about personal data privacy as the German government and private companies amass giant databases, organisers said.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 11, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Hiding the honeypots: Is it possible to hide honeypot traps from Botnet drones

Armies of networked computers that have been compromised by malicious software are commonly known as Botnets. Such Botnets are usually used to carry out fraudulent and criminal activity on the Internet. Now, writing in the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Modified iPhones Are Compromised By New Worm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Several research security firms have reported a new worm attack against jail broken iPhones, dubbed "Ikee.B or "Duh", this worm searches for personal and banking information.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 weblog

UK police make 2 Trojan computer virus arrests

(AP) -- A couple suspected of helping spread some of the Internet's most aggressive computer viruses has been arrested in the English city of Manchester, police said Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 14

Identifying ID theft and fraud

If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has warned him not to use internet banking because of the threat of online fraud, then what hope is there for the average Jo? The results of research published in a forthcoming issue ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Australian charged with infecting 3,000 computers

(AP) -- A 20-year-old Australian man has been charged with infecting more than 3,000 computers around the world with a virus designed to capture banking and credit card data, police said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers

(AP) -- University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school's three hospitals.

Technology / Software

created Apr 12, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 5