Tag: Cybercrime

Buying Fuel May Result In Stolen Credit Cards, Warns Visa
High fuel prices aren't the only thing travelers need to worry about at the pump. Visa has issued a...
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Cyber Attacks on Small Businesses are on the Rise, Here’s How to Stay Safe
While recent data breaches on large enterprises like Home Depot, Target, and Yahoo made headlines worldwide, a 2016 report by cybersecurity firm...
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Microsoft Warns of Rising Tech Support Scams, Calls for Industry-Wide Cooperation
Incidents of tech support scams targeting susceptible PC users are increasing, Microsoft warned. The company received 153,000 reported complaints fr...
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Hackers are Now Buying Legit SSL Certificates to Hide Malware
Making sure that you are secure every time you surf the net is getting more challenging these days. No matter what type of high tech security system...
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Antivirus Software: No Match For Potential Cybercrime
“There are only two kinds of companies: those who have been breached and those who will be breached.” Such is the...
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ATMs Hacked With USB Drives for Cash
The BBC is reporting that hackers have found a way to get Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) to spit out c...
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Facebook Donates $250,000 to UAB Cybercrime Researchers
October is National Cyber Security Awareness month, and in light of that Facebook has...
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Cybercrime Costs on the Rise, HP-Sponsored Study Finds
HP and the Ponemon Institute today unveiled a new security study that shows the cost and frequency of cybercrime has risen for the third year in a row. The 2012 Cost of Cybe...
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Mobile And Social Are The New Frontiers Of Cybercrime
Cybercrime is perhaps the most devastating, yet most preventable, form of crime. Victims can have their lives utterly destroyed by a hacker. Those same victims often share a part i...
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Bitcoins Are on FBI’s Radar According to Leaked Report
Wired has obtained a new report from the FBI that details the agency's growing concern that Bitcoins will...
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Teen Tries to Blackmail Russian Billionaire
A Russian SWAT team recently stormed the house where a 17-year-old student who was living with his mom, to grab...
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Tech Corruption in China [Infographic]
A new chart illustrates the love/hate relationship China has with technology. Having the largest internet user base in the world, along with a country-wide firewall, China has been...
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The Rise of Hacktivism [Infographic]
Depending on who's telling the story, propagators of today's cyber attacks are usually labelled either cybercriminals or hacktivists. It's easy to spot the difference in connotatio...
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Russian Police Arrest 8 in Carberp Trojan Case
Russian authorities have arrested eight men suspected of using the...
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