BC Securities Commission Releases its National Investment Fraud Vulnerability Report

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire -03/01/12)- A national study of close to 2,500 older Canadians (50+), released for Fraud Awareness Month, found that almost 1-in-5 are vulnerable to a highly risky investment offer. More than 2-in-5 don’t understand the fundamental relationship between risk and return, and only 1-in-4 have a realistic expectation…

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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…

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Malware breached 75M mark in 2011 —McAfee report

More than 75 million samples of malware were recorded in 2011, with those targeting mobile devices on the rise, according to security vendor McAfee. McAfee Labs senior vice-president Vincent Weafer said threats highly evolved in 2011, according to a report on PC World. “Increasingly, we’ve seen that no organization, platform…

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Report: Android malware up 3,325% in 2011

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology — whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or…

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RSA crypto researcher defends report

Cryptography researcher Arjen Lenstra has this week responded to criticism of a paper he co-authored that claimed to uncover weaknesses within the implementation of the RSA encryption system. RSA, a division of IT giant EMC, says that there’s nothing wrong with the RSA algorithm, it’s an implementation issue mainly with…

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Android Malware Grew 3,000 Percent in 2011: Report

Malware that specifically targeted mobile operating systems increased in 2011 as smartphones became more popular with enterprise users, as well as consumers. These cyber-criminals also developed affection for the Google Android OS, which saw the biggest jump in malware during the past 12 months, according to a new report from…

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