The assault by cybercriminals against big businesses continued this year -78% were attacked by outsiders, according to a report by Price Waterhouse Cooper. But small businesses - those with less than 50 employees - are rapidly becoming a target.
An international plot which would have turned huge numbers of PCs into “bricks” by using deeply buried malware was foiled by the NSA, according to an interview given to CBS by NSA director Keith Alexander. The attack could have "taken down the U.S. economy", an NSA official claimed.
11 things you can be doing to better protect your computers and data from ransomware such as Cryptolocker that is currently targeting businesses big and small.
All of the top 100 apps on Google's Play store have been hacked, and hackers now specifically target financial apps, such as those used by banks - with 53% of Android banking apps having been cracked, according to a report by Arxan.
This week, UK IT worker and social engineering blogger Dale Pearson was targeted - with eight phone calls from a company claiming there was a fault on his PC - but Pearson had both the time and the equipment to fight back.
The FBI custom-designs malware to snare suspects, a court has heard, and has been able “for years” to watch suspects through PC webcams, a court has heard. The teams operate "like normal hackers" - and rely on phishing and other criminal techniques.
APTs - or Advanced Persistent Threats - are the most menacing cyber attack there is, some say. Built to be stealthy, they penetrate networks, steal secrets - and vanish. 'Catching' one was a little like finding Bigfoot - but the much-hyped threat wasn't quite so scary up close...
As wireless technologies and electronic controls are increasingly built into cars, vehicles could become vulnerable to hackers - either stealing information, or injecting malware, a U.S. Senator warned - inspiring debate on how real this threat is.
Only weeks after Microsoft unveiled a global Cybercrime Center armed with new, hi-tech tools to combat crime, it announced it had carried out a global action leading to "significant disruption" of the Siferef botnet, a network controlling up to two million "zombie" PCs.
Personal information for up to 465,000 customers of JP Morgan, Chase & Co. may be at risk after hackers breached its network in July, the bank has admitted. Some reports claim that hackers had access to unencrypted, private information.
One of the ‘dark marketplaces’ offering illegal and semi-legal services via the anonymized web browser Tor has shut down, according to reports - with a user fleeing with millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin.
Systems at Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center were infected with malware in October after an employee opened an infected email. This put thousands of patients' data at risk.
The survey found that just 14% of top firms even took cyber risks into account at board level, according to a survey from the UK's Department for Business, Innovation & Skills. Only a quarter see cybersecurity as a top priority.
The European Parliament has switched off its public Wi-Fi system after an anonymous hacker broke into the personal emails of several Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from outside the building, using only a laptop.
A large-scale “heist” targeting Bitcoin site BIPS led to the theft of $1 million in Bitcoin - the second such major attack this month. BIPS was blasted with a massive DDoS attack two days before the theft on November 15.
A major British horse racing website has been hit by an “aggressive” and “malicious” cyber attack - and user details have leaked, including some passwords which the owners warn “could be deciphered.”
Dating site Cupid Media left personal details and plain text passwords for 42 million users exposed after an attack earlier this year. The details included names, emails and birthdays for users of the dating service, according to reporter Brian Krebs.
CME, described by Bloomberg as the world’s largest futures trader, said in a statement that “to date” there was no evidence that the unknown attackers had affected trades on CME Globex, but customer information had leaked.
Embattled handset maker BlackBerry has faced another blow, after the company warned users of a security bug affecting the software used to link its BB10 handsets to PCs.
Microsoft has opened a new Cybercrime Center - a war room where the tech giant’s lawyers and security experts will use bleeding-edge technology and industry expertise to battle crime online.
