News tagged with securities firm
Internet traffic 'hijacked' to China servers, says US report
Highly sensitive Internet traffic on US government and military websites was briefly "hijacked" and routed through Chinese servers earlier this year, a report to the US Congress said Wednesday.
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Cyber sleuths fight online crime in Singapore
If you've just become the victim of identity thieves or computer hackers, it's time to call in someone like Ali Fazeli.
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Report questions biometric technologies
Television cop shows love "biometric" technologies -- fingerprints, eye scans and so on -- but a blue-ribbon panel report calls for caution on widespread use of biological identification.
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Cybercrime is world's most dangerous criminal threat
A crime epidemic is silently sweeping the globe as criminals turn our ever-increasing dependence on computers against us, and even the head of Interpol is not immune.
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Two thirds of Internet users hit by cybercrime: Norton
Computer security firm Symantec on Wednesday reported that about two thirds of the world's Internet users have fallen victim to cybercrime and few think crooks will be caught.
Sep 08, 2010 |
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What your phone app doesn't say: It's watching
(AP) -- Your smart phone applications are watching you - much more closely than you might like.
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Europe overtakes Asia to become top producer of email spam
Europe has overtaken Asia as the biggest source of email spam worldwide with Britain a major culprit, a report said Thursday.
Jul 15, 2010 |
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McAfee: rogue anti-virus slipped quality controls
Web computer security firm McAfee blamed fresh changes to a quality control system for the release of a flawed anti-virus update that sabotaged computers worldwide. ...
Apr 23, 2010 |
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Spain smashes global 'zombie' computer network: police
Spanish police said on Wednesday they had arrested three men suspected of building the world's biggest network of virus-infected computers which hijacked more than 13 million PCs.
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Are you any good at creating passwords?
There's an interesting little study that's been done by security firm Imperva, which analyzed some 32 million passwords posted online in December by some enterprising hacker.
Jan 30, 2010 |
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Security firm outlines how attack against Google was pulled off
A Silicon Valley Internet security firm has described for the first time how hackers from China were able to crack Google's defenses, saying the attackers took advantage of a flaw in Microsoft's Web browser to probe deeply ...
Jan 17, 2010 |
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Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee
Social networks will face increasingly sophisticated hacker attacks in 2010 but law enforcement is expected to make strides in fighting cybercrime, according to Web security firm McAfee Labs.
Dec 30, 2009 |
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Spanish security firm detects 'swine flu' computer virus
Cyber criminals are taking advantage of swine flu fears with e-mails promising news on the illness which then infect computers with a virus, a Spanish computer security firm warned Friday.
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Facebook users hooked in new 'phishing' scam
Facebook on Friday was blocking links to bogus websites set up to look like the home page of the popular social network in a "phishing" attack by hackers.
May 15, 2009 |
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Facebook fights 'phishing' scam
Facebook Thursday said it has blocked a link at the heart of a "phishing" scam being used to dupe members into revealing passwords to accounts at the social networking website.
May 01, 2009 |
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