Tag: Cyber Crime
Americans feel fated to fall prey to cybercrime
Financial loss to scams mounts, as Americans report caring less about falling victim to cybercrime.
60% of UK Consumers Leaving Themselves Vulnerable to New Year’s Resolution Scams
27% of consumers feel pressure from brands when trying to achieve their New Year’s goals
List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2018 – 251,286,753 records leaked
Ransomware, phishing, malware, hackers... See the list of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2018.
Reported Cybercrime Jumps 14% in England
Figures based on FOI findings from a third of police forces.
Chinese Head fired after crypto mining at school
A Chinese headmaster has been fired after secretly mining cryptocurrency using his school’s electricity supply.
Stealthy Crypto-Mining malware evades detection
A coin-miner goes undetected by using Windows Installer as an evasion technique, says Trend Micro.
Here we go again… 80,000 Facebook user accounts compromised
Malicious browser extensions could be behind a compromise of at least 81,000 Facebook accounts which were put up for sale on the dark web, according to reports.
List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2018 – 44,701,278 records leaked
See the list of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2018.
6 cyber security scary stories for Halloween
We live in a scary world of cybercrime. In celebration of Cyber Security Awareness Month and Halloween (of course), we are sharing tales of security gone wrong.
The Internet Of Things is becoming the Internet Of Threats
Security by design is a methodical process, not an ad hoc undertaking. Failure to adopt this mindset for every single IoT device will likely lead to the need to make quick fixes to address bugs or newly discovered security threats.
Email still poses a cyber-threat, but there is hope
The total number of emails sent and received daily worldwide exceeds 281 billion and is forecast to grow to over 333 billion by 2022.
Ransomware casts anchor at the Port of San Diego
No waterfront woes for ships and boats after Port of San Diego fell victim to ransomware.