Macs are more likely to carry Windows malware than Mac malware, according to a survey. This is not a massive surprise, given the shear numbers of Windows malware, but it is a reminder that it exists even on the Mac platform. This Windows malware is inactive and can’t do any…
Macs Crawling With Windows Malware, Study Finds
One in five Mac computers is carrying malware that could spread to PCs, according to a new research from security vendor Sophos. The security team ran its Mac antivirus software on 100,000 Mac computers. It found that most of the malware found is directed at Windows PCs, so Macs harboring…
Obama healthcare law could worsen U.S. deficits: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's healthcare law could sharply exceed its cost-savings targets and add up to $530 billion to the federal budget deficit, a leading authority on U.S. government benefit programs said on Tuesday. A study by Charles Blahous, a George Mason University research fellow and the Republican…
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…
ProtectMyID: 55% of financial abuse in the US is committed by family members, caregivers, & friends according to a study by @MetLife. #besafe
ProtectMyID: 55% of financial abuse in the US is committed by family members, caregivers, & friends according to a study by @MetLife. #besafe View full post on Twitter / ProtectMyID View full post on National Cyber Security
‘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…
Lost cellphone study deems Ottawa most honest
Ottawa residents returned more cellphones than people in four other American cities, according to a study run by a U.S.-based security firm. View full post on cellphone security – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
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…
Hotmail Top Spam-Stopping Email, Hotmail-Commissioned Study Says [VIDEO] (Mashable)
Mashable – Hotmail is the top spam-stopping major email service, says a study commissioned by Hotmail. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National Cyber Security
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…