cybercrime

NCCU: Cybercrime Is A Global Threat To The Digital Economy

NCCU Director Jamie Saunders says international cooperation and standard procedures are essential in the war against cybercrime

10 years ago

Coffee-Lovers Beware – Cybercriminals Could Have Hacked Your Starbucks Account

Starbucks customer accounts hacked through smartphone apps, report claims

10 years ago

Is Homegrown Cybercrime The Next Big UK Security Threat?

ThreatMetrix report finds that nearly three-quarters of cyber-attacks come from inside the UK

10 years ago

Hackers Will Cost Businesses ‘More Than £1.3 Trillion’ By 2019

Juniper Research report warns that wearables and IoT devices could soon come under risk

10 years ago

Unpatched SAP Applications Expose Enterprises To Cyber-Attacks

More than 95 percent of companies running SAP applications are failing to apply software patches on a timely schedule leaving…

10 years ago

Hackers Plunder £3.3m From Ryanair Accounts

Airline’s corporate bank account ransacked by hackers using electronic transfer

10 years ago

RSA Hammers Home Fact That Hackers Are Winning

BLOG: Many themes emerged at RSA and many vendors seem resolved to the fact that you can't stop attacks, but…

10 years ago

Europol And Security Firms Take Down ‘Polymorphic’ Beebone Botnet

Joint operation between authorities and security firms helps to take down 'wormlike' Beebone

10 years ago

NCA Arrests 57 Suspects In Cybercrime Clampdown

National Crime Agency arrests dozens in cybercrime clampdown on suspected hackers and other online criminals

10 years ago

TalkTalk Admits Customer Account Data Breach

TalkTalk says small but significant number of customers are affected but stresses no payment details have been stolen

10 years ago

Lizard Squad Hacks Lenovo Website And Intercepts Emails

Lenovo's main corporate website compromised in apparent revenge for Superfish adware

10 years ago

Cyber Security: 4 Key Steps To Resilience

John Green, business and technology development director at IT security firm Accumuli, advises on how to get tough on cyber…

10 years ago

Darkleaks Offers Whistleblowers Black Market Trades For Bitcoins

Shady website offers an anonymous marketplace for potential whistleblowers ...and blackmailers

10 years ago

Jamie Oliver Website Serves Up Malicious Malware

That's not so pukka then, as Jamie Oliver's website falls victim to cyber hackers

10 years ago

Hackers Steal £1.1m From Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Bter

Bter said the funds were taken from its offline reserves over the weekend

10 years ago

10 Hacker Horror Stories

To mark Friday the 13th, we've put together ten of the most horrifying hacker stories from history.

10 years ago

Death Threats From Hacker Lead To Prison Sentence

A hacker who made a number of death threats in Japan has been jailed in a case that captured the…

10 years ago

Governments Have No Idea How To Stop Cyberterrorists – Time To Call In John McClane, Says Eugene Kaspersky

Seen Die Hard 4.0? That’s what’s coming soon if you don’t shape up, Kaspersky warns world leaders

10 years ago

Mercenary Hackers Offer Espionage-as-a-Service

The hackers' high level of skills means there attacks will rarely discovered, according to IT security firm Taia Global

10 years ago

British Teenager Arrested After Xbox And PlayStation hacks

A teenager from Liverpool has been arrested in a joint British and FBI operation.

10 years ago

What Should Chief Security Officers Ask Santa For This Christmas?

It’s the one time of the year when chief security officers can ask Santa for a little bit of help.…

10 years ago

Jeans To Block Wireless Signals To Prevent ID Theft

Clothing prevents hackers from pickpocketing important information from you

10 years ago

Android OS And iOS Targeted by Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Spate of attacks install remote access Trojans to phish for login credentials, with jailbroken devices at particular risk

10 years ago

Police Must ‘Learn How To Support Cybercrime Victims’

'Sluggish' police are trying to catch today's criminals with yesterday's tactics, according to critics

10 years ago

How Much Will Cybercrime Cost Us In 2015?

Orlando Scott-Cowley, director of technology marketing at Mimecast, looks back on the Target and Home Depot cyber attacks, and asks…

10 years ago

Attention, Santa! – This Year’s Most ‘Risky Christmas Gift List’ Revealed

Shoppers need to watch out for iPhones, Playstation 4s and Ugg Boots if they want to stay safe this Christmas,…

10 years ago

Only A Third Of UK Businesses Feel Able To Take On Cyber Attacks

British businesses were hit by more cyber attacks that ever before this year, McAfee study finds

10 years ago

Government Defends Life Sentences For ‘Serious’ Hacks

Home Office tells TechweekEurope that tougher prison sentences for computer crime are necessary

10 years ago

Half Of Brits Fall Victim To Cybercrime, But Just 32 Percent Report It

Cybercrime is costing the UK economy £670 million a year, says government, but true figure is likely to be higher

10 years ago

‘Only 100 People’ Are Responsible For The World’s Cybercrime, Says Europol

Troels Oerting calls for greater international co-operation to help the fight against cybercriminals

10 years ago