Throughout 2013, financial institutions continued to face serious threats from cybercriminals targeting the personal information of banking customers and their financial assets through the use of...
Creating a cybersecurity policy is hard, largely because it’s so difficult to define success. A national cybersecurity initiative should define the goals we want to achieve and provide incentives for...
It’s easy for millions of passwords to be stolen via hacking into Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts: It recently happened because malware was unknowingly downloaded into computers worldwide that...
Northampton-based insurance firm Staysure has written to more than 90,000 customers warning them they could have been victims of fraud, after their card details were stolen in a cyber attack.
The...
There have been more than 800 incidents of data loss by health boards in the last five years, figures have revealed.
They include patient notes being found in public places within NHS buildings,...
A string of cyber attacks over the holidays — involving Snapchat Inc., Microsoft Corp.’s Skype and Target Corp. — underscore how companies tend to be more vulnerable to hacking during the end-of-year...
Researchers have revealed how cyber-thieves sliced into cash machines in order to infect them with malware earlier this year.
The criminals cut the holes in order to plug in USB drives that installed...
Snapchat users are waking up to troubling news: Thanks to a gap in the service's security, the phone numbers and usernames for as many as 4.6 million accounts have been downloaded by a Web site...
Industrial facilities from nuclear plants to dams are increasingly coming under attack from cyber terrorists bent on causing physical damage and disruption from behind their computer terminals. But...
Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in?
When Edward J. Snowden, the disaffected National Security Agency contract employee, purloined tens of thousands of classified documentsfrom...
BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- After an investigation, the Briar Group, which runs eight restaurants and bars in the city, learned that their systems were infiltrated causing the data breach that...
This is just the beginning.
Target said on Friday that it is actively partnering with the United States Secret Service and the Department of Justice on the ongoing investigation into the malware...
With the Target data breach, many are wondering how criminals can profit from the use of the stolen credit cards. The card holders themselves will not be responsible for any of the charges, so how is...
Barclays has been fined $3.75m (£2.28m) by a US regulator for allegedly failing to keep proper electronic records, emails and instant messages.
The shortcomings occurred between 2002 and 2012, said...
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A police officer holds a confiscated counterfeit credit card in Hamburg, Germany, in April 2013, after arresting four people...
U.S. retail giant Target Corp. is busy dealing with the aftermath of the massive data breach that exposed account details of some 40 million credit and debit cards.
Already, at least two...
If there ever was a “year of privacy,” surely it was 2013. A year that ends with dictionary.com selecting“privacy” as “word of the year;” with privacy making front-page headlines...
Target was targeted by data thieves starting on Black Friday during the most busiest holiday shopping season of the year (between Nov. 27 and Dec.15). It seems that data thieves did some shopping...
MINNEAPOLIS – Target says that about 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been affected by a data breach that occurred just as the holiday shopping season shifted into high...
by Dylan Lobo on Dec 16,
Tech-savvy criminals have stolen millions by hacking into wealth managers systems, according to the Financial Times.
The paper, which cites research from...