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The onset of 2018 has seen European businesses bombarded with cyberattacks, including a staggering 80 million pure fraud attempts. With a 30% increase in cybercrime year-over-year and strict new laws coming into effect this month, digital business… Continue reading Europe Hit with 80 Million Fraud Attempts in Q1 2018 as Merchants Favor Low-Friction Experiences over Security
A citizen of the former USSR who had been living in Riga, Latvia faces three charges related to his operation of “Scan4you,” an online counter-antivirus service that helped hackers dodge anti-malware solutions, the US Department of Justice … Continue reading Russian hacker gets 35 years in prison for running counter-AV service
Most companies admit they don’t invest enough in application security until after they’ve suffered a breach, and almost half lack clear visibility into their business-critical apps, according to new data sourced by Ponemon Institute.
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A survey of over 500 security professionals has revealed, rather disconcertingly, that most believe governments should regulate the way social networks handle our data, and even install encryption backdoors to that end. At the same time, most experts a… Continue reading Security experts say government regulation is a lousy option – but may still be the best
A consulting director at Asia Pacific College (APC) in the Philippines decided to match student GPAs against the strength of their passwords. The findings suggest there is some degree of correlation between smarts and good password hygiene. JV Roig, wh… Continue reading The smarter the student, the stronger the password – study
Two weeks from today, companies that process personally identifiable information of EU citizens will feel the heat of the new data protection law that brings the biggest changes in 20 years to the European Economic Area. That law is the General Da… Continue reading One in Three Investment Firms Have Not Yet Started GDPR Compliance Projects
The number of reported data breaches dipped in the first quarter of 2018, even as the total of records compromised in the quarter remaining high, at 1.4 billion. Researchers were intrigued by the numbers, but Bitdefender telemetry might hold some … Continue reading Reported Data Breaches Falling Fast; Cryptojacking and GDPR Likely ‘Culprits’
Two Romanians have been extradited to Atlanta, Georgia to face federal charges of wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, computer fraud and abuse, and aggravated identity theft, the Northern District of Georgia said in a press release From October 2011 unt… Continue reading Two Romanians extradited to Atlanta to face cyber-fraud charges
Cisco has released several patches for users of WebEx clients and its Access Control System, all of which are mandatory if users want to keep using the products safely. The release comes two weeks after the networking giant issued critical patches for … Continue reading Cisco rolls out new wave of must-install WebEx patches
Researchers have put big-name travel and booking sites to the test to see how their security practices fare against other online services. If the results are anything to go by, we should all take extra precautions to secure our personal data when booki… Continue reading 89% of top travel websites fail to protect your security