Online file locker Rapidshare is legal in Germany, but has to adjust its policy regarding infringing content, the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg has ruled. Rapidshare plans to appeal. Rapidshare, one of the largest file locker sites in the world, was sued by the German copyright organisation Gema which represents…
Cybercrime dominated by organised gangs, academic study finds
The criminal possibilities of the online world have primed a “fourth era” of organised crime that is having a major effect on all forms of illegal activity around the globe, an academic study from John Grieve Centre for Policing and Security at London Metropolitan University has said. By the reckoning…
Carberp Trojan still alive and well, security company finds
The Carberp bank login Trojan is very much alive and in operation despite last week’s arrests in Russia of an eight-man gang accused of being core users of the malware’s botnet, security company Kaspersky Lab has said. The company has already detected criminals selling the Trojan on malware forums and…
Cybercrime now major drag on financial services, PwC finds
Too few organisations in the financial services sector are investing in the response mechanisms needed to cope with cybercrime incidents, a PwC survey has found. This is despite cybercrime now being a major cause of losses in the financial sector, ahead of accounting fraud, bribery and corruption and even money…
‘Hacktivists’ pose biggest data breach threat, study finds
A tiny but motivated band of ‘hacktivists’ are supplanting professional criminals as the biggest single data breach threat to large enterprises, an analysis of hundreds of confirmed incident reports has found. On the face of it, the numbers in Verizon’s 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report (which covers 2011) suggest that…
Duqu Trojan written in mystery programming language, analysis finds
The mystery of the Stuxnet-like ‘Duqu’ Trojan has deepened with the news that elements of its payload appear to have to have been written in an unidentifiable programming language. An ongoing analysis effort by Kaspersky Lab researchers has now uncovered much of the inner programming structure of the software, overwhelmingly…
Symantec Report Finds New Wave of Cyber-Attacks Impersonating Business Mediation and Arbitration Service and Volume of …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwire -02/29/12)- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC – News) today announced the findings of its February Symantec Intelligence Report, which shows a new wave of cyber-attacks designed to impersonate a well-known business mediation and arbitration service in North America. Businesses are being targeted with emails purporting to originate from…
GPS jamming becoming problem in UK, study finds
The frequencies used by GPS systems are being jammed routinely in the UK by individuals attempting to block the location tracking systems used by delivery trucks and anti-theft systems, a new study has found. Funded to look into the issue of GPS interference in a systematic way by the Government’s…
Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds
Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can’t detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested. Trustwave’s 2012 Global Security Report studied 300 incidents across 18 countries where the company’s SpiderLabs division was called into investigate what had gone…
DDoS attacks motivated by politics not criminality, Arbor Networks finds
Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found. As expected, Arbor Networks’ annual Infrastructure Security Report survey of 114 tier 1 Internet infrastructure firms, hosting companies and large…
