Cybercrime

Only weeks after the closure of Silk Road, a “drug market” which authorities claim shipped $1.2 billion of drugs including heroin around the world, a site styling itself Silk Road 2.0 has appeared. Like the original, it is only accessible via the “anonymous” browser Tor.

The FBI added five new cybercriminals to its Most Wanted list - including a new entry at number one, Alexsey Belan. The FBI aimed a specific warning at criminals who thought they could "hide overseas".

Adobe’s security breach laid bare 38 million passwords to the world - and a security researcher claims that 1.9 million of these are the simple “123456”. Half a million craftier customers chose “123456789”

Tom Hanks and Donald Trump are among a client list of 850,000 users of limousines and town cars to become the latest “trophy” claimed by hackers, after a breach at a nationwide limousine firm - which netted addresses and credit card details.

A survey of 1,900 executives at clients of the accountancy firm Ernst and Young found that almost all (96%) felt “unprepared” for a cyberattack - due to budget cuts and lack of skilled staff.

Phones such as Samsung’s Galaxy S4 ship with Near Field Communication chips built in - and many companies hope to use these for payment systems. But snooper devices may be able to "listen in" as payment apps are used, researchers warn.

Major companies such as Disney, Boeing and General Electric are still handing out information to “hackers” using the most basic tool of all - the human voice, according to a report on a competition at DefCon.

Previously, it had been estimated that around three million users had data accessed, but a new report by Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity revealed the true scale of the breach may have been far larger than thought - and that source code for software such as Photoshop may also have leaked.