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Article | 22/03/2011 WikiLeaks' founder takes on Indian Prime Minister
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange told an Indian TV channel that the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was engaged in a deliberate attempt to misle...
Article | 12/03/2011 FTC officially closes Twitter security investigation
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has closed the book on its legal action against Twitter, stemming from <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...
Article | 11/03/2011 Senators question how WikiLeaks breach happened
U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning allegedly was able to copy hundreds of thousands of classified documents from a U.S. Department of Defense network b...
Article | 10/03/2011 European lawmakers still worried about banking data security
Europe's police force, Europol, has approved requests to send private citizens' banking data to the U.S. Department of Treasury without sufficient con...
Article | 9/03/2011 UK banks report lower online banking and card payment losses
U.K. banks reported sharply lower levels of online banking fraud and counterfeit cards in 2010, a sign the industry may be getting better at deflectin...
Article | 9/03/2011 Tests find security programs fooled by attack vector
A new round of antivirus testing found some products fail to detect malware that tries to infect a computer via a different attack vector, such as thr...
Article | 9/03/2011 European agency warns of botnet dangers
The battle against groups of hacked computers known as botnets is suffering from a lack of coordination, resulting in a cybercrime industry worth more...
Article | 7/03/2011 Hackers targeted French gov't computers for G20 secrets
IT staff spent the weekend in a massive clean-up operation to remove traces of a "spectacular" attack on computers at Bercy, the headquarters of the F...
Article | 5/03/2011 Carpe Breachum: How the HBGary breach can make us stronger
Companies have long sought to balance what information about their vulnerabilities they must keep secret, and what information it would benefit them t...
Article | 4/03/2011 Prison for four who ran credit card fraud market
Four men who ran what U.K. police say was the largest English-language criminal forum for selling stolen credit card numbers and the tools to steal da...
Article | 4/03/2011 Cybercriminals targeting point-of-sale devices
Point-of-sale payment processing devices for credit and debit cards are proving to be rich targets for cybercriminals due to lax security controls, pa...
Article | 3/03/2011 Android Market spiked with malware-laced apps
More than 50 applications containing malware have been discovered in Google's application market for its Android mobile OS, a sign that hackers are ha...
Article | 22/02/2011 Advanced Zeus Trojan hits Polish ING customers
A version of the Zeus malware that intercepts one-time passcodes sent by SMS (Short Message Service) is targeting customers of the financial instituti...
Article | 10/02/2011 'Night Dragon' attacks from China strike energy companies
Chinese hackers working regular business hours shifts stole sensitive intellectual property from energy companies for as long as four years using rela...
Article | 3/02/2011 Next generation banking malware emerges after Zeus
The rumored combination of two pieces of advanced online banking malware appears to be fully underway after several months of speculation.