An Omaha company is suing five cellphone service companies for allegedly violating its patent on security technology that helps smartphones, tablets and broadband mobile cards access the internet. View full post on cellphone security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Banks and credit card firms keep ID theft victims in the dark
The hacking of a credit card processing company last week, with more than a million people's card numbers potentially stolen by identity thieves, highlights yet again how little privacy we enjoy in the digital age. View full post on credit card fraud – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post…
Computer virus may target Indian firms in Dubai?
Dubai, April 2 (IANS) A computer virus from China has been targeting users in India as well as in China, and as many Indian companies are based in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), they need to be 'extra careful', an expert has said. View full post on computer…
Kelihos botnet mark II taken down by security firms
A group of malware experts from security companies Kaspersky Lab, CrowdStrike, Dell SecureWorks and the Honeynet Project, have worked together to disable the second version of the Kelihos botnet, which is significantly bigger than the one shut down by Microsoft and its partners in September 2011. The Kelihos botnet, also…
Firms promised improved SLAs when using Carrier Ethernet WANs
Bob Metcalfe, the father of the Ethernet, helped launch the latest Carrier Ethernet-based WANs at NetEvents last week which promised improved service level agreements. Metcalfe and his team at 3Com brought about the first Ethernet networks for LAN connections in 1973, and almost 40 years later oversaw the launch of…
Big firms not owning up to details of huge cyber attacks which could put customers at risk
Major U.S. companies are concealing from customers their details are at risk after cyber attacks View full post on homeland cyber – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Financial Firms Work Together on Cybersecurity
Rising cybersecurity threats are pushing big banks to do something that doesn’t come naturally for these secrecy-steeped institutions: share information with one another. This month, security officials from Wall Street financial firms, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., are expected to meet with researchers from the Polytechnic Institute…
Anonymous strikes again? Hackers release elite research firm’s subscriber data
Hackers released another batch of data on Thursday pilfered from Stratfor Global Intelligence, a widely used research and analysis company whose website was attacked last weekend. The data purports to be the names and credit-card numbers of people who have purchased research from Stratfor plus hundreds of thousands of user…
WikiLeaks Unveils 160 Firms’ Surveillance Gear Sales Docs, Still No Submission System
WikiLeaks is still in the secret-spilling business. But not, apparently, in the business of accepting those secrets through the anonymous dropbox that was once its trademark. The site on Thursday unveiled a new trove of 287 documents it’s calling the Spy Files, a collection of 287 digital surveillance firms’ marketing…
Foreign hackers targeted Canadian firms
A leading cyber-crime expert says foreign hackers who launched a massive attack on Canadian government computers last fall also broke into the data systems of prominent Bay Street law firms and other companies to get insider information on an attempted $38-billion corporate takeover. View full post on cyber crime hacking…
