Cybercrime

Mobile banking apps pose an “important risk” to consumers as banks increasingly offer access to banking services via smartphones. A financial watchdog is to investigate the threat of bogus and malicious banking apps.

The website of the New York Times briefly disappeared this week, replaced by a banner saying, “Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army" - victim of an attack described as "sophisticated". Twitter and the Huffington Post were also briefly affected.

One in five adults has fallen victim to hacks targeting their email accounts, social networking accounts or online bank accounts, according to a British survey conducted by the University of Kent.

Millions of dollars have been lost to an "ominous" new hi-tech tactic used by cybercriminals - where a low-powered DDoS attack is used as “cover” for a direct assault on the bank’s payment system.

The popular online “battle arena” game League of Legends has suffered a major security breach which exposed account information for North American players, as well as transaction records from 2011 including salted and hashed credit card numbers.

A hacker claims to have access to “the entire database of users on Twitter”, warning that “no account is safe”. He has leaked 15,000 account details via a file-sharing service as “proof” of his claims - although experts are skeptical.

Personal information for 14,000 U.S. Department of Energy employees has leaked in a data breach, according to the Wall Street Journal. It's the second major breach the Department has suffered this year.

A Texas family were horrified by an apparent hacker attack in which a criminal was able to spy on their two-year-old daughter and insult her through an internet-connected webcam.

Cybercriminals will unleash a wave of “zero-day” vulnerabilities to attack Windows XP machines after April 8, 2014, a security expert has claimed.