Some Internet banking customers here in Singapore have been affected by a spyware programme that infects computers to steal online banking passwords, reported the Straits Times. The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has issued a warning that there have been a ‘few cases’ of customers whose computers were infected…
Spyware targeting Singapore online banking users
The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) has issued a warning that a spyware is making its rounds to infect computers to steal online banking passwords. The non-profit industry body said that there have been ‘a few cases’ of Internet banking customers whose computers were infected by the SpyEye malware….
Spyware to steal banking passwords has affected customers here
The Association of Banks in Singapore has issued a warning that a spyware program has been infecting users’ computers to steal online banking passwords. The non-profit industry body said in a statement that there has been ‘a few cases’ of Internet banking customers whose computers were infected by the SpyEye…
UK firm denies supplying spyware to Mubarak’s secret police
A UK tech firm has denied supplying spyware technology to the former Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak. Documents uncovered when the country’s security service headquarters were ransacked during the Arab Spring uprising suggest that Egypt had purchased a package called FinFisher to spy on dissidents. FinFisher, developed by UK firm…
‘Spyware’ Incident Spooks Jihadi Forum
A prominent poster on the elite password-protected jihadi web site Shumukh has told fellow forum members his account on the site has been hacked to send spyware to fellow forum participants. The user, who goes by the handle “Yaman Mukhadab,” posted on August 28 that “it seems that someone is…
Artist investigated over photo-snapping spyware in Apple Retail Stores
So far, the only source of information about this event seems to be this one article, which went out and got quoted, paraphrased and summarised elsewhere online. Nowhere does the article tell EXACTLY what kind of permissions did the guy get, exactly what did he tell the store employees he…